CUET PG 2024: Over 4.6 lakh students register; UP, Delhi top list

The number of female candidates in 2022 was 249332, which was higher than the 209740 male candidates and 11 candidates from the third gender category. The same trend was not seen in the first year of the CUET PG, though, when the total number of male candidates (305478) was slightly higher than the total number of female registrations (302155).

State-wise registrations

In terms of state-wise registration, Uttar Pradesh topped the list with a total of 99,717 registrations, followed by Delhi which saw 65,275 registrations, Kerala with 30,462, Bihar with 28,181 registrations and Odisha with 20,873 registrations.

State-wise registrations for CUET PG 2024.

The other top states were Madhya Pradesh (19799), Maharashtra (19036), Haryana (18420), West Bengal (17692), Jharkhand (16122). Some of the North Eastern states, however, have seen less registrations, such as Arunachal Pradesh received 1692 registrations, Manipur got 5314 registrations, Meghalaya received 7696 registrations, Mizoram received only 1339 registrations and Nagaland got only 888 registrations. However, some states such as  Assam (14243) and Tripura (4842) received a good amount of registrations.

Only three states/ UT — Andaman and Nicobar Islands (199), The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (111) and Lakshadweep (40) — received less than 200 registrations. Meanwhile, two states/ UT — Ladakh (247), Goa (201) — received less than 300 registrations.

Several changes in CUET PG 2024

CUET PG is scheduled to be conducted from March 11, 2024 to March 28, 2024. This time, NTA launched a new website – pgcuet.samarth.ac.in – for CUET PG.

This year, NTA also increased the registration fees for all categories by Rs 200 compared to last year. Candidates belonging to the general category will have to pay Rs 1,200 and those under OBC-NCL/Gen-EWS will have to pay Rs 1,000.

Last year, candidates had to pay Rs 500 for additional test papers. However, this year they will have to pay Rs 600 for each extra test paper they wish to appear. Applicants outside India applying for upto two tests will have to pay Rs 6,000 and Rs 2,000 for additional papers. Earlier, it was Rs 5,000 and Rs 1,500 respectively.

Additionally, now candidates were allowed to choose a maximum of four test paper codes in all. The candidate can choose a General paper as a subject as unlike previous years, there would be no general test with each paper. The comprehension part of these two General papers would be in English or Hindi as chosen by the candidate during registration.

The number of questions has also been reduced from 100 to 75 multiple choice questions (MCQs), and the CUET PG exam duration which was earlier 120 minutes has now been reduced to 105 minutes.