CUET Economics Syllabus 2026, Download PDF, Pattern

CUET Economics unit-wise syllabus

Units

Topics

Unit 1: Introduction to Microeconomics

What is microeconomics?

Central problems

Unit 2: Consumer Behaviour and Demand

Consumer’s Equilibrium: meaning and attainment of equilibrium through Utility Approach: One and two commodity cases.

Demand: market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve, movement along and shifts in the demand curve, price elasticity of demand, measurement of price elasticity of demand – percentage, total expenditure, and geometric methods

Unit 3: Producer Behaviour and Supply

Production function: returns to factor and returns to scale 

Supply: market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply curve movement along and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of supply, measurement of price elasticity of supply – percentage and geometric methods 

Cost and Revenue: Concepts of costs; short-run cost curves (fixed and variable costs; total, average and marginal costs); concepts of revenue – total, average and marginal revenue and their relationship. Producer’s equilibrium – with the help of MC and MR.

Unit 4: Forms of Market and Price Determination

Forms of market – perfect competition

Price determination under perfect competition – equilibrium price, effects of shifts in demand and supply.

Unit 5: Simple Applications of Tools of Demand and Supply Curves

The teachers can be given the flexibility to choose the issues: rationing, floors and ceilings and Food Availability Decline (FAD) Theory (the teachers may also choose alternative examples that are simple and easy to understand)

Unit 6: National Income and Related Aggregates — Basic Concepts and Measurement

Macroeconomics: meaning.

Circular flow of income, concepts of GDP, GNP, NDP, NNP (at market price and factor cost).

Measurement of National Income –Value Added method, Income method, and Expenditure method.

Unit 7: Determination of Income and Employment

Aggregate demand, aggregate supply, and their components

Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal)

Meaning of involuntary unemployment and full employment

Determination of income and employment: two-sector model

Concept of investment multiplier and its working

Problems of excess and deficient demand

Measures to correct excess and deficient demand – availability of credit, change in government spending

Unit 8: Money and Banking

Money: meaning, evolution, and functions

Central bank: meaning and functions

Commercial banks: meaning and functions

Unit 9: Government Budget and the Economy

Government budget – meaning and its components

Objectives of government budget

Classification of receipts – revenue and capital; classification of expenditure – revenue and capital, plan and non-plan, and developmental and non-developmental

Balanced budget, surplus budget, and deficit budget: meaning and implications

Revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, and primary deficit: meaning and implications; measures to contain different deficits.

Unit 10: Balance of Payments

Foreign exchange rate – meaning (fixed and flexible), merits and demerits; determination through demand and supply

Balance of payments accounts – meaning and components

A brief analysis of recent exchange rate issues

Unit 11: Development Experience (1947-90) and Economic Reforms since 1991

A brief introduction of the state of the Indian economy on the eve of independence. Indian economic system and common goals of Five year Plans.

Main features, problems and policies of agriculture (institutional aspects and new agricultural strategy), industry (IPR 1956; SSI – role & importance) and foreign trade.

Unit 12: Current challenges facing the Indian Economy

Poverty – absolute and relative; Main programmes for poverty alleviation: A critical

assessment;

Human Capital Formation – How many people become resource; Role of human capital

in economic development;

Rural development: Key issues – credit and marketing – role of cooperatives; agricultural

diversification;

Employment: Growth and changes in work force participation rate in formal and informal

sectors; problems and policies

Infrastructure: Meaning and Types: Cases Studies: Health: Problems and

Policies – A critical assessment;

Sustainable Economic Development: Meaning, Effects of Economic Development on

Resources and Environment, including global warming

Unit 13: Development Experience of India

A comparison with neighbours

India and Pakistan

India and China

Issues: economic growth, population, sectoral development and other Human

Development Indicators

CUET Economics Exam Pattern

Particulars

Details

Status of CUET Economics Syllabus

Not Available

CUET Exam Conducting Body

National Testing Agency (NTA)

Medium of Exam

13 languages - English, Hindi, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Odia, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

Number of questions

40 out of 50 questions to be attempted

Type of questions

Multiple Choice Questions

CUET Economics marking scheme

+5 for each correct answer

-1 for each incorrect answer

CUET Economics Mapping for Courses

B.A. Hons. In Economics

B.Sc. in Economics

B.Com (Hons.)