CUET Score & Percentile Calculator

The Common University Entrance Test (CUET UG), conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), decides undergraduate admissions across dozens of central and participating universities in India. Two numbers from it matter: your raw score — the marks you earned in a paper after negative marking — and your percentile, which is how NTA compares you fairly against everyone who sat the same session. This calculator works out both: the raw score exactly, and the percentile as an estimate once you supply your session's candidate counts.

It is a guidance tool. Your official marks and percentile are whatever NTA publishes on your scorecard — this page helps you understand and estimate them, not replace them.

CUET UG uses a fixed marking scheme across Language, Domain and General Test papers. Every correct answer earns marks, every wrong answer loses a mark, and anything you leave blank is neutral:

Raw score = (Correct × +5) − (Incorrect × −1)  ·  Unattempted × 0 = 0

• +5 for each correct answer.
• −1 for each incorrect answer (this is the negative marking).
• 0 for each unattempted question — no reward and no penalty.

The marks-per-correct and negative-marks fields are editable, so if NTA revises the scheme in a future exam year you can update them and the maths still holds. If you also want to sanity-check the percentage form of a mark set, the general percentage calculator handles any out-of-total conversion.

Take a candidate who attempts 45 of 50 questions — 40 correct, 5 wrong, 5 left blank — under the standard +5 / −1 scheme. The table below is generated live by the same engine the calculator uses.

Their raw score is 195 out of 250, at an accuracy of about 89% on the questions they actually attempted. Notice how the 5 blanks neither helped nor hurt — only the 5 wrong answers pulled the total down, by 5 marks.

CUET UG is held across many sessions and shifts. Because two shifts of the same subject can differ slightly in difficulty, NTA does not rank you on raw marks alone — it converts each candidate's raw score into a percentile within their own session, then equates percentiles across shifts. The published session formula is:

Percentile = 100 × (Candidates in your session scoring ≤ you) ÷ (Total candidates in your session)

NTA computes this to 7 decimal places to reduce ties, and the highest scorer in each session is always assigned exactly 100.0000000. Enable "Estimate percentile" above and enter the two candidate counts from your scorecard (or an official release) to see your session percentile.

The same raw score can land at different percentiles in different shifts — the table above holds the score fixed and varies only the position within the session, which is exactly what percentile measures.

These three are often confused. Your score is your own marks. Your percentile is your position within your session. Your rank comes later, when a university combines your subject percentiles (often with its own weighting) and orders all applicants for a specific programme — that step is university-specific and outside this tool. If you also convert academic results for admission forms, the CBSE percentage calculator and the SGPA to percentage calculator handle those conversions.

• Raw score uses the CUET UG +5 / −1 / 0 scheme uniformly. The scheme has been stable, but confirm the current year's attempt pattern (for example 50-of-50 vs 40-of-50) against the official NTA information bulletin.
• Percentile is computed within a single session/shift for one subject — never across subjects or years. It needs candidate counts NTA does not publish in advance, so without them only the raw score is exact.
• The final equi-percentile normalised marks NTA prints on the scorecard interpolate percentiles across every shift and cannot be reproduced without each shift's full score distribution — only NTA can produce that official number.
• Results here are indicative only and do not represent, guarantee or predict NTA-issued marks, ranks or admission outcomes.