CUET English Syllabus

CUET English Syllabus & Topic-Wise Weightage

This CUET English syllabus is built from a question-by-question analysis of 5 years (2022 to 2026) of previous CUET English question papers, 4050 questions in total. Every question is tagged to a section and a subtopic, so the weightage shown here reflects what has actually been asked in the exam rather than a generic topic list.

The paper draws its questions from 1 section: ENG (4050 questions). That works out to roughly 810 analysed questions per year, enough to give a reliable picture of how CUET English distributes its marks across topics.

CUET English ENG Syllabus

The ENG section accounts for 4050 of the 4050 questions analysed, which is around 100% of the CUET English paper across 2022 to 2026. In 2026 alone it contributed 1450 questions.

Within ENG, these subtopics carry the most weightage, shown with their share of the section's questions:

• Passage: 950 questions, around 23% of the section
• Grammar: 753 questions, around 19% of the section
• Word Usage: 551 questions, around 14% of the section
• Rearrangement: 442 questions, around 11% of the section
• Synonyms: 322 questions, around 8% of the section
• Antonyms: 301 questions, around 7% of the section

The remaining 731 questions in ENG are spread across 7 lower-weightage subtopics, including Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, and Literary Devices. These are worth a revision pass once the high-yield areas above are covered.

How to Use the CUET English Syllabus Weightage

Start your CUET English preparation with the highest-weightage subtopics in each section, since they decide the largest share of marks and tend to repeat year after year. The interactive tables above break every subtopic down year by year, so you can check whether an area is gaining or losing weightage before committing study time to it.

Once the high-yield subtopics feel comfortable, work through the lower-weightage areas so the paper holds no surprises on exam day. Because this breakdown comes from real CUET English previous year questions, the most effective next step is to practise those same papers and track your accuracy subtopic by subtopic. Every paper behind these numbers is solved for free at CUET English previous year questions, and the CUET English topic-wise analyser lets you filter those questions by section, topic and subtopic.