Answer key, result and scorecard

Between the exam and the result NTA publishes two things you can act on. First the recorded responses and the question papers you attempted, likely to be displayed for two to three days. Then the provisional answer key, which you may challenge at ₹200 per question challenged, non-refundable, paid online. After that the window closes for good: the result is built on the final key, and there is no re-evaluation and no re-checking of the result, and no correspondence about it is entertained. For CUET (UG) 2026 the provisional key appeared on 9 June 2026 and the result on 23 June 2026.

What comes out before the result?

First comes the paper you sat: the recorded responses and the question papers attempted are displayed before the result is declared. Download yours: download your response sheet and keep a hard copy — it is not provided at a later stage.

Then the provisional answer key is displayed on https://cuet.nta.nic.in with a public notice, likely to be displayed for two to three days.

How do you challenge an answer key, and what does it cost?

A challenge costs ₹200 per question challenged, non-refundable, paid online, and challenges without justification or evidence, and challenges filed anywhere but the prescribed link, are not considered.

NTA's decision on the challenges is final, and candidates are not informed individually of the outcome. What you get instead is the outcome in aggregate: the result is compiled on the final answer key, declared after the subject experts have examined every challenge.

How does a raw mark become an NTA score?

Because CUET runs in Multiple shifts, depending on the number of candidates and subject choices, raw marks from different shifts are not comparable. NTA equates them by the Equi-percentile method, worked out by a committee headed by a Senior Professor from the Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, with Senior Professors from IIT Delhi and the University of Delhi.

Two consequences are worth knowing before you compare your score with anyone's: the highest raw score in every session becomes percentile 100 for that session, while the lowest raw scores in different sessions get different percentiles, because the percentile depends on how many candidates took that session. The full procedure, step by step with NTA's own worked table, is on the normalization page.

What happens if a question is wrong or dropped?

The marking scheme is +5 for a correct answer, −1 for an incorrect one and 0 for one left blank. Two exceptions are printed:

• if more than one option is found correct, +5 goes to everyone who marked any of the correct options.
• if no option is correct, or the question is wrong or dropped, every candidate who appeared gets +5, attempted or not.

Can the result be re-checked?

No — there is no re-evaluation and no re-checking of the result, and no correspondence about it is entertained. And no grievance about an answer key is entertained once the result is out — the challenge window is the only opportunity, which is why the cost of skipping it is higher than ₹200 a question suggests.

Where is the scorecard, and how long does it last?

There is nothing waiting in the post: no score card is dispatched; candidates download it from https://cuet.nta.nic.in. The score is valid for admission to the academic year 2026-27 only — it does not carry to the next cycle.

What a score does not tell you

What it is worth. A CUET score buys admission nowhere by itself; it is read against each university's own closing lists. This site holds those lists where they have been published — see what a score closed last year.