CUET UG 2023 Syllabus for Language Domain General Test Sample Papers PYQs

1. Accounting for not-for-profit organizations
2. Accounting for partnerships
3. Reconstitution of partnership
4. Dissolution of partnership firms

1. Accounting for share and debenture capital
2. Analysis of financial statements
3. Statement of changes in financial position

1. Overview of computerized accounting system
2. Using computerized accounting system
3. Accounting using database management system (DBMS)
4. Accounting applications of electronic spreadsheet

1. Reproduction in organisms
2. Sexual reproduction in flowering plants
3. Human reproduction
4. Reproductive health

1. Heredity and variation
2. Molecular basis of inheritance
3. Evolution

1. Health and disease
2. Improvement in food production
3. Microbes in human welfare

1. Principles and processes of biotechnology
2. Application of biotechnology in health and agriculture

1. Organisms and environment
2. Ecosystems
3. Biodiversity and its conservation
4. Environmental issues

Hormones –Elementary idea (excluding structure). Vitamins – Classification and functions.
Nucleic Acids: DNA and RNA.

Introductory Macroeconomics

Indian Economic Development

• Broad overview: Early urban centers.
• Story of discovery: Harappan civilization.
• Excerpt: Archaeological report on a major site.
• Discussion: how it has been utilized by archaeologists/historians.

• Broad overview: Political and economic history from the Mauryan to the Gupta period.
• Story of discovery: Inscriptions and the decipherment of the script. Shifts in the understanding
  of political and economic history.
• Excerpt: Asokan inscription and Gupta period land grant.
• Discussion: Interpretation of inscriptions by historians.

• Broad overview: Issues in social history, including caste, class, kinship, and gender.
• Story of discovery: Transmission and publications of the Mahabharata.
• Excerpt: From the Mahabharata, illustrating how it has been used by historians.

• Broad overview:

(a) A brief review of religious histories of Vedic religion, Jainism,
Vaishnavism, and Saivism.
(b) Focus on Buddhism.

• Story of discovery: Sanchi stupa.
• Excerpt: Reproduction of sculptures from Sanchi. Discussion: Ways in which sculpture has been
  interpreted by historians, and other sources for reconstructing the history of Buddhism.

• Broad Overview: Outline of social and cultural life as they appear in travellers’ accounts.
• Story of their writings: A discussion of where they travelled, why they travelled, what they
  wrote, and for whom they wrote.
• Excerpts: from Alberuni, Ibn Batuta, Bernier.
• Discussion: What these travel accounts can tell us and how they have been interpreted by
  historians.

• Broad Overview:

(a) Outline of religious developments during this period.

(b) Ideas and practices of the Bhakti-Sufi saints.

• Story of Transmission: How Bhakti-Sufi compositions have been preserved.
• Excerpt: Extracts from selected Bhakti Sufi works.
• Discussion: Ways in which these have been interpreted by historians.

• Broad Overview:

(a)Outline of new buildings during the Vijayanagar period —
temples, forts, irrigation facilities.

(b)Relationship between architecture and the political system.

• Story of Discovery: Account of how Hampi was found.
• Excerpt: Visuals of buildings at Hampi.
• Discussion: Ways in which historians have analysed and interpreted these structures.

• Broad overview:

(a) Structure of agrarian relations in the 16th and 17th centuries.
(b) Patterns of change over the period.

• Story of Discovery: Account of the compilation and translation of Ain-i-Akbari.
• Excerpt: From the Ain-i-Akbari
• Discussion: Ways in which historians have used the text to reconstruct history.

• Broad Overview:

(a) Outline of political history c. 15th-17th centuries.
(b) Discussion of the Mughal court and politics.

• Story of Discovery: Account of the production of court chronicles, and their subsequent
  translation and transmission.
• Excerpts: from the Akbarnama and Padshahnama.
• Discussion: Ways in which historians have used the texts to reconstruct political histories.

• Broad overview:

(a) Life of zamindars, peasants, and artisans in the late 18th
century.
(b) East India Company, revenue settlements, and surveys.
(c) Changes over the nineteenth century.

• Story of official records: An account of why official investigations into rural societies were
  undertaken and the types of records and reports produced.
• Excerpts: From Firminger’s Fifth Report, Accounts of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, and Deccan
  Riots Report.
• Discussion: What do the official records tell and do not tell, and how they have been used by
  historians.

• Broad Overview:

(a) The events of 1857-58.
(b) How these events were recorded and narrated.

• Focus: Lucknow.
• Excerpts: Pictures of 1857. Extracts from contemporary accounts.
• Discussion: How the pictures of 1857 shaped British opinion of what had happened.

• Broad Overview: The growth of Mumbai, Chennai, hill stations, and cantonments in the 18th and 19th
  century.
• Excerpts: Photographs and paintings. Plans of cities. Extract from town plan reports. Focus on
  Kolkata town planning.
• Discussion: How the above sources can be used to reconstruct the history of towns. What these
  sources do not reveal?

• Broad Overview:

(a) The nationalist movement 1918-48,
(b) The nature of Gandhian politics and leadership.

• Focus: Mahatma Gandhi in 1931.
• Excerpts: Reports from English and Indian language newspapers and other contemporary writings.
• Discussion: How newspapers can be a source of history.

• Broad Overview:

(a) The history of the 1940s;
(b) Nationalism, Communalism, and Partition.

• Focus: Punjab and Bengal.
• Excerpts: Oral testimonies of those who experienced partition.
• Discussion: Ways in which these have been analysed to reconstruct the history of the event.

• Broad Overview:

(a) Independence and the new nation-state.

(b) The making of the Constitution.

• Focus: The Constitutional Assembly debates.
• Excerpts: From the debates.
• Discussion: What do such debates reveal and how they can be analyzed.

1. The era of One-Party Dominance: First three general elections, nature of Congress dominance at the national level, uneven dominance at the state level, coalitional nature of Congress. Major opposition parties.

2. Nation-Building and Its Problems: Nehru’s approach to nation-building: Legacy of partition: the challenge of ‘refugee’ resettlement, the Kashmir problem. Organization and reorganization of states; Political conflicts over language.

3. Politics of Planned Development: Five-year plans, expansion of state sector, and the rise of new economic interests. Famine and suspension of five-year plans. Green revolution and its political fallouts.

4. India’s External Relations: Nehru’s foreign policy. Sino-Indian war of 1962, Indo-Pak war of 1965 and 1971. India’s nuclear programme and shifting alliances in world politics.

5. Challenge to and Restoration of Congress System: Political succession after Nehru.  NonCongressism and electoral upset of 1967, Congress split and reconstitution, Congress’ victory in 1971 elections, politics of ‘garibi hatao’.

6. Crisis of the Constitutional Order: Search for ‘committed’ bureaucracy and judiciary.
Navnirman movement in Gujarat and the Bihar movement. Emergency: context, constitutional and extra-constitutional dimensions, resistance to emergency. 1977 elections and the formation of the Janata Party. Rise of civil liberties organizations.

7. Regional Aspirations and Conflicts: Rise of regional parties. Punjab crisis and the anti-Sikh
riots of 1984. The Kashmir situation. Challenges and responses in the North East.

8. Rise of New Social Movements: Farmers’ movements, Women’s movement, Environment, and
Development-affected people’s movements. Implementation of Mandal Commission report and its
aftermath.

9. Democratic Upsurge and Coalition Politics: Participatory upsurge in the 1990s. Rise of the JD and the BJP. The increasing role of regional parties and coalition politics. UF and NDA governments. Elections 2004 and UPA government.

10. Recent Issues and Challenges: Challenge of and responses to globalization: new economic policy and its opposition. Rise of OBCs in North Indian politics. Dalit politics in the electoral and
non-electoral arena. Challenge of communalism: Ayodhya dispute, Gujarat riots.

1. Cold War Era in World Politics: Emergence of two power blocs after the second world war. Arenas of the cold war. Challenges to Bipolarity: Non-Aligned Movement, the quest for new international economic order. India and the cold war.

2. Disintegration of the ‘Second World’ and the Collapse of Bipolarity: New entities in world politics: Russia, Balkan states, and Central Asian states, Introduction of democratic politics and capitalism in post-communist regimes. India’s relations with Russia and other post-communist countries.

3. US Dominance in World Politics: Growth of unilateralism: Afghanistan, first Gulf War, response to 9/11 and attack on Iraq. Dominance and challenge to the US in economy and ideology. India’s
renegotiation of its relationship with the USA.

4. Alternative Centres of Economic and Political Power: Rise of China as an economic power in the
post- Mao era, creation, and expansion of the European Union, ASEAN. India’s changing relations
with China.

5. South Asia in the Post-Cold War Era: Democratisation and its reversals in Pakistan and Nepal.
Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Impact of economic globalization on the region. Conflicts and efforts
for peace in South Asia. India’s relations with its neighbours.

6. International Organisations in a Unipolar World: Restructuring and the future of the UN. India’s position in the restructured UN. Rise of new international actors: new international economic organizations, NGOs. How democratic and accountable are the new institutions of global
governance?

7. Security in the Contemporary World: Traditional concerns of security and politics of disarmament. Non-traditional or human security: global poverty, health, and education. Issues of human rights and migration.

8. Environment and Natural Resources in Global Politics: Environment movement and evolution of global environmental norms. Conflicts over traditional and common property resources. Rights of indigenous people. India’s stand-in global environmental debates.

9. Globalization and Its Critics: Economic, cultural and political manifestations. Debates on the
nature of consequences of globalization. Anti-globalization movements. India as an arena of
globalization and struggles against it.

• The unit aims at studying how people differ with respect to their various psychological attributes.

• Individual differences in human functioning; Assessment of psychological attributes; Intelligence: Individual differences in intelligence; Theories of intelligence; Culture and intelligence;

• Special abilities: Aptitude — nature, and measurement; Creativity; Emotional intelligence.

• This unit focuses on the study of self and personality in the context of different approaches in an effort to appraise the person. The assessment of personality will also be discussed.

• Self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-regulation; Culture and self; Concept of personality;

• Major approaches — Type and Trait, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Behavioural, Cultural;

• Assessment of personality: Self Report measures, behavioural analysis, and projective measures.

• This unit deals with the nature of stress and how responses to stress depend on an
  individual’s appraisal of stressors. Strategies to cope with stress will also be dealt with.

• Nature, types, and sources of stress; Effects on psychological functioning and health; Coping with stress; Promoting positive health and well-being.

• This unit discusses the concepts of normality and abnormality and the major psychological disorders.

• Concepts of abnormality and psychological disorders; Classification of disorders; Factors Underlying abnormal behaviour;

• Major psychological disorders – Anxiety, Somatic, Dissociative, Mood, Schizophrenic,
  Developmental and Behavioural-Substance use related.

• The unit discusses the goals, techniques, and effectiveness of different approaches to treating psychological disorders.

• Nature and process of therapy: Therapeutic relationship;

• Types of therapies: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive, Behaviour and Bio-medical;
• Alternative therapies — Yoga, Meditation; Rehabilitation of mentally ill.

• This unit focuses on the formation and change of attitudes, cultural influences on attributional tendencies, and conditions influencing pro-social behaviour.

• Explaining social behaviour: Impression formation and explaining behaviour of others through attributions; Social cognition; Schemas and stereotypes; Nature and components of attitudes; Attitude formation and change; Behaviour in the presence of others; Pro-social behaviour; Prejudice and discrimination; Strategies for handling prejudice.

• The unit deals with the concept of the group, its functions, and the dynamics of social influence on conformity, obedience, and compliance. Different conflict resolution strategies will also be discussed.

• Conformity, Obedience, and Compliance; Cooperation and Competition;

• Nature and formation of groups; Types of groups; Social identity; Influence of the group on individual behaviour; Intergroup conflicts; Conflict resolution strategies.

• The unit focuses on the application of psychological understanding to some important social issues.

• Human-environment relationship; Environmental effects on human behaviour: Noise, pollution, crowding, natural disasters; Promoting pro-environmental behaviour;

• Psychology and social concerns: Aggression, Violence, and Peace, Discrimination and Poverty, health, the impact of television on behaviour.

• The unit deals with some effective psychological and interpersonal skills for facilitating
  personal social development.

• Effective psychological skills: Observational skills, Interviewing skills, Testing skills,
  Counselling skills — empathy, authenticity, positive regard, and Communication skills —
  listening.

Unit.1.

Electrostatics

Electric charges and their conservation. Coulomb’s law – force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle, and  continuous charge distribution.

Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole,
electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field.

Electric flux, a statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to finding field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet, and uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside).

Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, the electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges, and electric dipoles in an electrostatic field.

Conductors and insulators, free charges, and bound charges inside a conductor. Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitance, the combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor, Van de Graaff generator.

Unit.2.

Current Electricity

Electric current, the flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity and
mobility, and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I
characteristics (linear and nonlinear), electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity.

Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; series and parallel combinations of
resistors; temperature dependence of resistance.

The internal resistance of a cell, potential difference, and emf of a cell, combination of
cells in series and in parallel.

Kirchhoff ’s laws and simple applications. Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge.

Potentiometer – principle, and applications to measure potential difference, and for
comparing emf of two cells; measurement of internal resistance of a cell.

Unit.3.

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

Concept of the magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment. Biot – Savart law and its
application to the current-carrying circular loop.

Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight and toroidal solenoids. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Cyclotron.

Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. The force between two parallel current-carrying conductors – definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in a magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer – its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.

Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. The magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. Magnetic field intensity is due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis.

Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; bar magnet as an
equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements.

Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances, with examples. Electromagnets and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.

Unit.4.

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

Electromagnetic induction; Faraday’s law, induced emf and current; Lenz’s Law,
Eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance.

Alternating currents, peak and RMS value of alternating current/voltage; reactance and
impedance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only), LCR series circuit, resonance; power in AC circuits, wattles current.

AC generator and transformer.

Unit.5.

Electromagnetic Waves

Need for displacement current. Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only).

Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves.

Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays) includes elementary facts about their uses.

Unit.6.

Optics

Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal
reflection, and its applications, optical fibres, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula. Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact combination of a lens and a mirror. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.

Scattering of light–blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.

Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation, and accommodation, correction of eye defects (myopia and hypermetropia) using lenses.

Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers.

Wave optics: Wavefront and Huygens’ principle, reflection, and refraction of plane waves at a plane surface using wavefronts.

Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ principle.

Interference, Young’s double hole experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent
sources, and sustained interference of light.

Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum.

Resolving the power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes. Polarisation, plane polarised light; Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids.

Unit.7.

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations;  Einstein’s photoelectric equation – particle nature of light.

Matter wave-wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation. Davisson-Germer experiment

(experimental details should be omitted; only the conclusion should be explained.)

Unit.8

Atoms and Nuclei

Alpha – particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s model of atom; Bohr model, energy
levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones.

Radioactivity – alpha, beta, and gamma particles/rays, and their properties; radioactive
decay law. Mass energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number; nuclear fission and fusion.

Unit.9.

Electronic Devices

Energy bands in solids (qualitative ideas only), conductors, insulators, and semiconductors;

semiconductor diode – I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell, and Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator. Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator. Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR). Transistor as a switch.

Unit.10.

Communication Systems

Elements of a communication system (block diagram only); bandwidth of signals (speech, TV, and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium. Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky, and space wave propagation. Need for modulation. Production and detection of an amplitude-modulated wave.

• Matrices and types of matrices
• Equality of matrices, transpose of a matrix, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrix
• Algebra of matrices
• Determinants
• Inverse of a matrix
• Solving of simultaneous equations using matrix method

• Higher-order derivatives
• Tangents and normals
• Increasing and decreasing functions
• Maxima and minima

• Indefinite integrals of simple functions
• Evaluation of indefinite integrals
• Definite integrals
• Application of integration as the area under the curve

• Order and degree of differential equations
• Formulating and solving differential equations with variable separable

• Random variables and their probability distribution
• Expected value of a random variable
• Variance and standard deviation of a random variable
• Binomial distribution

• Mathematical formulation of linear programming problem
• Graphical method of solution for problems in two variables
• Feasible and infeasible regions
• Optimal feasible solution

Section B1: Mathematics

• Reflexive, symmetric transitive and equivalence relations
• One-to-one and One-to-Many functions,
• Onto and Into Functions
• Composite Function
• Inverse Function
• Binary Operations

• Range, domain, principal value branches.
• Graphs of inverse trigonometric functions
• Elementary properties of inverse trigonometric functions.

• Concept, notation, order, equality, types of matrices,
• zero matrix, transpose of a matrix, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices.
• Addition, multiplication, and scalar multiplication of matrices, simple properties of addition, multiplication, and scalar multiplication.
• Invertible matrices and proof of the uniqueness of inverse, if it exists;

• Determinants of a square matrix (upto 3×3 matrices),
• Adjoint and inverse of a square matrix.
• Consistency, inconsistency, and a number of solutions
• solving systems of linear equations in two or three variables

• Continuity and differentiability, a derivative of composite functions,
• chain rules, derivatives of inverse Trigonometric functions,
• derivatives of implicit functions. Concepts of exponential, logarithmic functions.
• Second-order derivatives. Rolle’s and Lagrange’s Mean Value theorems

• Rate of change, increasing/decreasing functions,
• tangents and normals,
• approximation,
• maxima, and minima
• first derivative test  and second derivative test

• Integration as an inverse process of differentiation.
• Integration of a variety of functions by substitution, partial fractions, and by parts,
• Definite integrals as a limit of a sum.
• Basic properties of definite integrals

• Applications in finding the area under simple curves
• area between the two curves

• Definition, order, and degree, general and particular solutions of a differential equation
• Formation of differential equations whose general solution is given
• Solution of differential equations by the method of separation of variables,
• homogeneous differential equations of first order

• Vectors and scalars, magnitude and direction of a vector.
• Direction cosines/ratios of vectors.
• Types of vectors
• position vector of a point,

• Direction cosines/ratios of a line joining two points.
• Cartesian and vector equation of a line, coplanar and skew lines
• the shortest distance between two lines
• Cartesian and vector equation of a plane
• The angle between (i)two lines,(ii)two planes, and (iii) a line and a plane.
• Distance of a point from a plane.

• Introduction, related terminology such as constraints, objective function
• optimization, different types of linear programming(L.P.) problems
• graphical method of solution for problems in two variables,
• feasible and infeasible regions, feasible and infeasible solutions,

• Multiplications theorem on probability
• Conditional probability, independent events, total probability, Baye’s theorem.
• Random variable and its probability distribution,
• mean, and variance of haphazard variable.
• Repeated independent(Bernoulli) trials and binomial distribution.

Section B2: Applied Mathematics

• Modulo arithmetic
• Congruence modulo
• Allegation and mixture
• Numerical problems
• Boats and streams
• Pipes and cisterns
• Races and games
• Partnership
• Numerical inequalities

• Index numbers
• Construction of index numbers
• Test of adequacy of index numbers
• Population and sample
• Parameter and statistics
• Time series
• Components of time
• Time Series analysis for univariate data

• Introduction and related terminology
• Mathematical formulation
• Different types of linear programming problems
• Graphical method of solution for problems in two variables
• Feasible and infeasible regions
• Feasible and infeasible solutions