CUET Economics Syllabus 2025: Important Topics, Exam Pattern, Best Books, and Preparation Tips

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: 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 4: 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 5: Money and Banking

• Money: meaning, evolution, and functions
• Central bank: meaning and functions
• Commercial banks: meaning and functions

Unit 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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

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Section

Subjects

No. of Questions

Marks

Section A

Language Test

40 (out of 50)

40

Section B

Economics

40 (out of 50)

40

Total

80

80

Book Title

Author/Publisher

Key Features

Introductory Microeconomics

NCERT (Class 11)

Covers basics of microeconomics, essential for CUET syllabus.

Introductory Macroeconomics

NCERT (Class 12)

Focuses on macroeconomic concepts, a must-read for domain-specific preparation.

CUET Economics Practice Book

Arihant Publications

Includes previous years' questions, mock tests, and detailed solutions.

Economics for CUET UG

Pearson

Comprehensive coverage of CUET syllabus with practice questions.

Quantitative Aptitude for Competitions

R.S. Aggarwal

Helps strengthen quantitative skills required for CUET.

General Knowledge

Lucent Publication

Useful for the general awareness section of CUET.