CUET UG Result 2025: How normalised scores will impact cut-off, rank list for domain-specific subjects?

The Common University Entrance Test - Undergraduate (CUET UG) 2025 results are one day away and over 13 lakh students are awaiting their scorecards for taking admission to the college of their dreams. The National Testing Agency (NTA) will declare the CUET result 2025 on July 4. Candidates might want to know how the normalisation process would impact their CUET UG 2025 scores. CUET result 2025 live updates .

Since the inception of the CUET exam, it is understood that CUET UG marks will be normalised as the exams take place in multiple sessions leading to a difference in difficulty level. However, the number of subjects have been reduced from 61 to 37 this year and the question is how this move will affect the CUET UG result 2025 .

CUET UG 2025 was held as a computer-based test from May 13 to June 4 with a revised exam pattern for admission to 239 central, state, private, and deemed universities.

What is normalised score in CUET?

NTA will use an equi-percentile approach to normalise CUET UG scores across different exam sessions of a subject. As part of the NTA normalisation method, raw scores of candidates will be converted into percentile scores. NTA scores will reflect how a candidate performed in relation to others. Here's the step-by-step procedure of normalisation.

Step 1: Convert raw scores into CUET percentile scores

The percentiles are calculated separately for each shift.

• Record the number of candidates who have appeared in a shift. Denote this number by N.
• Sort all the candidates in one shift in decreasing order of their marks.
• Note the raw marks for each candidate. Suppose this is denoted by T. Count the number of candidates in that shift whose raw scores are less than or equal to T. Denote this number by m.

The percentile score for this candidate is then calculated as:

P = m/N * 100

Step 2: Pull the percentiles to the marks scale for each session to get normalised score.

• The data across all sessions is collated into a single table.
• The columns for the shift-wise raw score should be kept separate.
• All the records are then sorted in decreasing order of the percentiles.

Step 3: Calculation of the normalised score

Now for each subject, there is a score assigned to each percentile value for each session. The normalised score, Z, corresponding to a percentile value P, is calculated as:

Which subjects will be normalised in CUET 2025?

All 23 domain-specific subjects in CUET 2025 held in multiple sessions including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, economics, political science, business studies, accountancy, history, geography, psychology, sociology, computer science, legal studies, environmental studies will have their scores normalised.

Language papers such as English, Hindi, Tamil will only be normalised if they were held in multiple shifts.

How normalised scores affect CUET UG cut-off 2025 and admissions?

The normalisation criteria will impact the CUET UG merit list 2025 for popular and competitive courses such as BA (Honours) English, BCom, or BSc Physics offered at top universities like Delhi University (DU), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

While the normalised scores will promote fairness, they might lower down a candidate’s rank. For example, a CUET UG 2025 paper was held in multiple shifts. If the first session was easier, more students would have scored higher marks and since normalisation looks at relative performance, a candidate scoring high in the subject might not get an exceptional normalised score.

On the other hand, suppose the second session was tougher, fewer people would have scored high giving a higher percentile to the candidate having good raw marks. Therefore, two candidates having the same raw scores in a subject might have different normalised scores depending on their session.

Universities will look at the CUET UG 2025 percentile to prepare CUET UG 2025 rank lists and CUET UG 2025 cut-off - minimum marks required to get a seat - for undergraduate admissions.