Delhi University CUET Cut Off: How It Works, With BHU

What a CUET cut off really means

CUET UG itself has no pass mark. NTA conducts the test and sends normalised scores to universities. Each university then ranks applicants for each course using the CUET subjects that course requires, fills its seats in rounds, and the score of the last student admitted in a round becomes that round's closing point. That closing point is what students call the cut off.

So the same CUET score can win a seat in one college and miss in another, simply because more high scorers chose the first one.

How the Delhi university CUET cut off is set

DU has admitted undergraduates through CUET since 2022, replacing the class 12 percentage cut off lists it used until 2021. Under CSAS UG:

1. Each programme lists the CUET subject combination it accepts, usually a language plus specific domain subjects or the General Aptitude Test.
2. Your merit score for that programme is calculated from your normalised CUET scores in those subjects.
3. You list your preferred programme and college combinations on the DU portal.
4. DU allocates seats round by round based on merit, preference, category and seats available.
5. After you accept and the college approves, you may upgrade in later rounds if a higher preference opens up.

DU publishes allocation results and seat data during these rounds rather than old style cut off lists, so the closing score is seen by looking at who got which seat.

CUET cut off for BHU

Banaras Hindu University also admits undergraduates through CUET UG. It runs its own online process: after registration, BHU prepares course-wise merit and allotment lists by category, and seats are filled in rounds with fee payment deadlines. The CUET BHU cut off for a course is the merit position or score of the last candidate allotted a seat in that category and round. Popular programmes in arts, commerce and science at the main campus fill at higher scores than less demanded or newer programmes.

Past cut off trends in words

We have not found official, comparable closing scores across colleges that we can reproduce here for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 admission cycles, so we describe the pattern instead of printing numbers that could mislead you.

• In each of those cycles, the most sought-after combinations in DU, such as commerce and economics honours and a few humanities programmes at well known campus colleges, closed near the top of the score range in the first round.
• Later rounds usually closed lower for the same course as students upgraded or withdrew.
• Reserved category closing scores were lower than unreserved ones, and the gap varied by course.
• Off campus and newer colleges generally closed lower than central campus colleges for the same programme.

Eligibility vs merit: two different hurdles

Before merit counts, you must meet the programme's eligibility. This includes passing class 12 with any minimum marks the university fixes, and having the right subjects in class 12 or in CUET. A high CUET score cannot fix missing eligibility. Only then does your merit score compete for a seat, and that competition produces the cut off.

What will affect the next cut off

• Difficulty of each test: harder papers compress scores, and normalisation adjusts for shift differences.
• Number of applicants choosing a course and college.
• Seats and new programmes added by the university.
• Subject combinations each programme accepts, which change who can compete.
• Category and supernumerary quotas, which have separate merit lists.

Since all of these change every year, a past closing score is a guide to how competitive a course is, not a promise.

How to check cut offs officially

For DU, log in to the CSAS UG portal linked from du.ac.in and follow the allocation results and notices of each round. For BHU, check the admission section on bhu.ac.in for merit and allotment lists. Your CUET scorecard comes from NTA. To prepare well for the test itself, start with the CUET UG syllabus and practise with CUET UG previous papers. Notes on more universities sit in our wider CUET cut off guide.