CUET Topic-wise Practice Questions (Mocks 2022–2025)

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Choose a section below, start with the topic you are weakest at, and open its questions on the mock pages, where each one has the answer and a worked explanation. Section IA: Languages (English) has 20 mock questions; Section III: General Test has 55 mock questions; Section II: Domain Subject (Physics) has 22 mock questions.

Section IA: Languages (English)

Reading Comprehension (Factual, Narrative and Literary)

• 2024 mock, Q.1: What did many people expect when the library extended its hours?
• 2024 mock, Q.2: Why did most students say they came to the library at night?
• 2024 mock, Q.3: In the student’s remark, the phone being "a door that never closed" means that
• 2024 mock, Q.4: According to the passage, librarians now see themselves as
• 2024 mock, Q.5: Which statement best reflects the author’s conclusion?
• 2022 mock, Q.1: What was the main problem faced by Kherwadi every monsoon?
• 2022 mock, Q.2: Why did Sarala Deshmukh not raise money for a bridge?
• 2022 mock, Q.3: What did the townspeople’s answers reveal?
• 2022 mock, Q.4: The phrase "a file that travelled from one office to another and never came back" suggests that the petitions
• 2022 mock, Q.5: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?
• 2022 mock, Q.6: According to the passage, what is Sarala’s present view on the bridge?

Synonyms

• 2024 mock, Q.7: Choose the word closest in meaning to RELIEF.
• 2022 mock, Q.7: Choose the word closest in meaning to PERSUADED.

Antonyms

• 2024 mock, Q.8: Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to SILENT.
• 2022 mock, Q.8: Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to ROUTINE.

Verbal Ability: Choosing the Correct Word

• 2024 mock, Q.10: Choose the option that best completes the sentence: If I ____ the answer, I would have told you.
• 2022 mock, Q.9: Choose the correct option to fill the blank: Neither the teacher nor the students ____ aware of the change in schedule.

Vocabulary in Context

• 2024 mock, Q.6: The word "scarcer", as used in the passage, means

Idioms and Phrases

• 2022 mock, Q.10: Choose the correct meaning of the idiom "to break the ice".

Spelling

• 2024 mock, Q.9: Choose the correctly spelt word.

Section III: General Test

General Knowledge

• 2025 mock, Q.3: Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India?
• 2025 mock, Q.4: Which gas is the most abundant in the Earth’s atmosphere?
• 2024 mock, Q.13: The Constitution of India came into force on
• 2024 mock, Q.14: The longest river of peninsular India is the
• 2023 mock, Q.1: Which Indian state has the longest mainland coastline?
• 2023 mock, Q.4: Fundamental Duties were added to the Constitution of India by the
• 2022 mock, Q.11: Which Article of the Constitution of India abolishes untouchability?
• 2022 mock, Q.13: The Tropic of Cancer does NOT pass through which of these states?

Current Affairs

• 2025 mock, Q.1: Which team won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025?
• 2025 mock, Q.2: In December 2024, D. Gukesh became World Chess Champion by defeating
• 2024 mock, Q.11: On 23 August 2023, Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander made a soft landing near which region of the Moon?
• 2024 mock, Q.12: Which city was scheduled to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games?
• 2023 mock, Q.2: India held the G20 presidency from 1 December 2022. Its theme was
• 2023 mock, Q.3: At India’s proposal, which year was observed as the International Year of Millets?
• 2022 mock, Q.12: Who took office as the 15th President of India in July 2022?
• 2022 mock, Q.14: The 44th Chess Olympiad (July–August 2022) was hosted by

Percentage, Profit and Discount

• 2025 mock, Q.5: An article sold for ₹1,200 incurs a loss of 20%. Its cost price is
• 2025 mock, Q.9: 35% of 240 is
• 2024 mock, Q.15: Two successive discounts of 20% and 10% are equal to a single discount of
• 2024 mock, Q.16: A number increased by 15% becomes 391. The number is
• 2023 mock, Q.5: A town’s population of 20,000 grows by 10% each year. What will it be after 2 years?
• 2022 mock, Q.15: A shopkeeper marks an article 25% above cost price and gives a 10% discount. His profit percentage is

Ratio, Proportion, Mixtures and Averages

• 2025 mock, Q.6: Two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 5 and their LCM is 75. Their sum is
• 2025 mock, Q.8: The average age of 4 children is 10 years. Including their mother, the average becomes 15 years. The mother’s age is
• 2024 mock, Q.18: 40 litres of a mixture has milk and water in the ratio 3 : 1. How much water must be added to make the ratio 3 : 2?
• 2022 mock, Q.18: The average of 5 numbers is 18. If one number is removed, the average of the rest is 16. The removed number is
• 2022 mock, Q.19: If A : B = 2 : 3 and B : C = 4 : 5, then A : B : C is

Time and Work, Speed and Distance

• 2025 mock, Q.7: A speed of 54 km/h is equal to
• 2024 mock, Q.17: 12 workers can finish a job in 15 days. How many days will 18 workers take, working at the same rate?
• 2023 mock, Q.6: Pipe A can fill a tank in 12 hours and pipe B in 15 hours. Working together they fill it in
• 2023 mock, Q.7: Ravi covers half a journey at 40 km/h and the other half at 60 km/h. His average speed is
• 2022 mock, Q.17: A train 240 m long runs at 72 km/h. The time it takes to pass a pole is

Number and Letter Series

• 2025 mock, Q.10: Find the next number: 5, 11, 23, 47, ?
• 2024 mock, Q.20: Find the next letter: A, C, F, J, O, ?
• 2023 mock, Q.10: Find the next number: 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?
• 2022 mock, Q.20: Find the next number: 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, ?

Analogy and Classification

• 2025 mock, Q.12: 3 : 27 :: 5 : ?
• 2024 mock, Q.23: Which is the odd one out?
• 2023 mock, Q.9: Book : Author :: Statue : ?
• 2022 mock, Q.24: Which number is the odd one out?

Direction Sense, Ranking and Arrangement

• 2025 mock, Q.11: Arun faces east. He turns 90° clockwise twice, then 90° anticlockwise once. Which direction does he face now?
• 2025 mock, Q.14: Riya is 12th from the top and 18th from the bottom in her class ranking. How many students are in the class?
• 2024 mock, Q.22: A, B, C, D and E sit in a row facing north. C is in the middle and A is at the left end. B is immediately to the right of C, and E is…
• 2022 mock, Q.22: Meena walks 6 km north, then turns right and walks 8 km. How far is she from her starting point?

Coding-Decoding

• 2025 mock, Q.13: If each letter is replaced by its position in the alphabet and summed, PEN = 35. What is INK?
• 2024 mock, Q.21: If MANGO is written as OGNAM, how is APPLE written in the same code?
• 2022 mock, Q.21: If CAT is coded as DBU, how is DOG coded?

Simple and Compound Interest

• 2023 mock, Q.8: The compound interest on ₹10,000 at 10% per annum for 2 years, compounded annually, is
• 2022 mock, Q.16: The simple interest on ₹8,000 at 5% per annum for 3 years is

Syllogism and Venn Diagrams

• 2024 mock, Q.24: In a class of 50 students, 30 like tea, 25 like coffee and 10 like both. How many like neither?
• 2023 mock, Q.12: Statements: All roses are flowers. Some flowers are red. Conclusions: I. Some roses are red. II. All flowers are roses.

Clocks and Calendars

• 2023 mock, Q.11: 1 January 2023 was a Sunday. What day of the week was 1 March 2023?
• 2023 mock, Q.13: The angle between the hour and minute hands of a clock at 3:30 is

Mensuration

• 2024 mock, Q.19: The area of a square whose diagonal is 10 cm is

Blood Relations

• 2022 mock, Q.23: Pointing to a man, Riya says, "He is the only son of my grandfather’s only son." How is the man related to Riya?

Section II: Domain Subject (Physics)

Electrostatics

• 2025 mock, Q.15: If the distance between two point charges is halved, the electrostatic force between them becomes
• 2025 mock, Q.16: The electric potential due to a point charge at a distance r varies as
• 2023 mock, Q.14: According to Gauss’s law, the electric flux through a closed surface enclosing a charge q in vacuum is
• 2023 mock, Q.15: Three capacitors of 6 μF each are connected in series. The equivalent capacitance is

Current Electricity

• 2025 mock, Q.17: Kirchhoff’s junction (current) rule is based on the conservation of
• 2025 mock, Q.18: As the temperature of a metallic conductor increases, its resistivity
• 2023 mock, Q.16: If the current through a given metallic wire is doubled, the drift velocity of the electrons

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

• 2025 mock, Q.20: An ideal transformer steps 220 V down to 11 V. The ratio of primary to secondary turns is
• 2023 mock, Q.18: Lenz’s law is a consequence of the law of conservation of
• 2023 mock, Q.19: The peak value of the 220 V (rms) AC mains supply is about

Optics

• 2025 mock, Q.22: The power of a concave lens of focal length 25 cm is
• 2025 mock, Q.23: For a glass surface of refractive index √3, the Brewster (polarising) angle is
• 2023 mock, Q.21: The critical angle for light going from glass (refractive index 1.5) into air is

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

• 2025 mock, Q.19: A long solenoid has 1000 turns per metre and carries 2 A. The magnetic field inside it is about (μ₀ = 4π × 10⁻⁷ T m/A)
• 2023 mock, Q.17: A charged particle moves parallel to a uniform magnetic field. The magnetic force on it is

Electromagnetic Waves

• 2025 mock, Q.21: Which electromagnetic waves are used in RADAR systems?
• 2023 mock, Q.20: The concept of displacement current was introduced by

Atoms and Nuclei

• 2025 mock, Q.24: A radioactive sample of 16 g decays for three half-lives. The mass remaining undecayed is
• 2023 mock, Q.23: The energy of an electron in the second orbit (n = 2) of a hydrogen atom is

Electronic Devices

• 2025 mock, Q.25: When a p–n junction diode is forward biased, its depletion layer
• 2023 mock, Q.24: A full-wave rectifier is fed with 50 Hz AC. The fundamental frequency of the ripple in its output is

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

• 2023 mock, Q.22: In the photoelectric effect, the stopping potential depends on

How these topics were chosen

• Sections and topics follow the official CUET notification and syllabus headings.
• Questions are the ones in our 4 labelled mock papers on the year pages. None is copied from a real exam.
• Answers and explanations are on the mock page each line links to.

FAQ

Are these real CUET previous year questions?

No. The official CUET papers are not published, so there are no official past questions to list. These are original questions from our mock papers, written to match what candidates and exam analyses reported for each year, and labelled as mocks everywhere on this site.

Which CUET topics have the most practice questions here?

Section IA: Languages (English): Reading Comprehension (Factual, Narrative and Literary), Synonyms. Section III: General Test: General Knowledge, Current Affairs. Section II: Domain Subject (Physics): Electrostatics, Current Electricity.

How should I use topic-wise CUET practice?

Pick your weakest topic, solve its questions from two or three mock years with the answers hidden, then read the explanations on the mock page. Once a topic is clean, sit a full mock under time.