CUET 2025: Cut-off Trends, College Options, Results & Counselling Guide

CUET 2025: Cut-off Trends, College Options, Results & Counselling Guide

Interim CUET-UG answer key, response sheets, have been made available by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in the third week of June and are inviting objections. Final answer key and official results will be published in the last week of July 2025, likely between July 28 to July 30, and can be accessed at cuet.nta.nic.in.

Out of 13 to 14 lakh aspirants, the test used a uniform marking scheme (+5/-1) and applied normalization between shifts.

CUET Cut-Offs: Expectations

Cut-offs differ university-wise, course-wise, and category-wise. General-category candidates for brand central universities such as DU, BHU, and JNU typically need about 90–98 percentile.

DU B.Com (Hons.): about 97–99 percentile (about 200–220 out of 250)

DU BBA/BMS: about 96–98 percentile (about 190–210 out of 250)

DU BA/B.Sc courses: about 95–98 percentile

Cut-offs in different categories (OBC, SC, ST) would be lower and in the range of 70–85 percentile.

CUET scores offer admission to over 45 central universities, state universities, and deemed universities like DU (about 79,000 seats), BHU, JMI, JNU, Aligarh Muslim University, the University of Hyderabad, etc.

DU colleges like Hindu, Hansraj, and SRCC have very high cut-offs (e.g., Hindu BA Honours English has a cut-off of roughly 770 out of 800). The selection of test combinations (stream, languages, general) has a significant influence on the possibility of getting admitted. 

CUET-UG counselling starts from the date of declaration of results, which is usually in the first week of August 2025.

It is a decentralized process where each university performs registration, choice filling, and seat allotment separately.

General Process:

Registration on respective university portals.

Document verification and category verification.

Filling of preferences for colleges and courses.

Seat allotment happens in several rounds depending on the preference and merit.

Payment of fee and submission of documents to complete admission. There could be upgrades or spot rounds in subsequent rounds for remaining seats.

Centralized via the CSAS portal in the support of a helpline. The initial round starts after the results, with upgrades in future rounds.  BHU and JNU also conduct online counseling, often with mop-up rounds for left-over seats.

Final Checklist

Late July: Collect the scorecard

Early August: Counseling registration

Mid-August: Fill choice selection, document verification, and fee payment

From September: College reporting preparation and new academic term