CPGET 2025: Exam Dates, Application Form, Eligibility, Syllabus, Results

The eligibility criteria for admission through CPGET are as follows:

• Candidates must pass their qualifying examination and meet the minimum required marks in the subject(s)/course(s) they are applying for. 
• They must also pass the Common PG Entrance Test in the subject they wish to join. 
• In some cases, the entrance test may be conducted before the results of the qualifying exam are released.
• However, passing the entrance test alone does not guarantee admission.
• Candidates must also pass the qualifying exam with the required marks before the admission process starts.
• During counselling, candidates need to submit the necessary documents listed in the instructions.

CPGET 2025 registration form is likely to be released in June 2025. Aspirants will have to apply online on Osmania University's official website. While filling the form, they will be required to provide personal details, contact details and academic details. The application fee is also to be paid online after filling the form.

Osmania University has not annnounced the CPGET 2025 schedule yet. However, based on the past dates, it can be guessed that the exam will be conducted in the first two weeks of July 2025. 

The reimbursement of fee/scholarship is allowed only for those who pursue a PG Programme for the 1st time. For those who have already pursued any PG Courses (Professional or Non-Professional) will not be provided hostel accommodation in the University/College hostels and will not be considered for any type of scholarship whatsoever, as per GOs in force. As per Govt. of T.S. Social Welfare (Edn) Dpartment Memo the fee/scholarship reimbursement is not allowed to such candidates. Further, the maximum age for the candidates to become eligible for fee/scholarship reimbursement is as per the Government of Telangana rules in force.

Osmania University conducts CPGET once a year for admissions to post graduate at their institute and other participating institutes. In addition to post graduate courses, 5-year integrated courses are also offered through CPGET. 

Through CPGET 2024, approximately 25,000 admissions were made. These seats are distributed among several courses that are offered through this entrance exam. For the academic year 2025-26 a similar number of seats are expected. 

The tuition fee for MA at Osmania University and other CPGET participating institutes will vary from discipline to discipline and institute to institiute. For MA in Journalism and Mass Communication the tuition fee can be upto INR 35,000 a year. For MA in other disciplines like English, History, etc., the tuition fee can be anywhere between INR 15,000 to INR 25,000 per year. 

Osmania University may or may not extend the last date of the CPGET application process. For the 2024 entrance test, they did extend the last date twice. However, the first extension came with an extra late fee of INR 500 and the second  extension cost students INR 2000 extra on the application form fee. 

Osmania University will release the CPGET 2025 notification before or along with its application form. No schedule has been announced by the university yet but it is expected that the notification and the application form will be released in early June 2025.

CPGET participating institutes are listed below - 

• Osmania University 
• Kakatiya University 
• Telangana University 
• Mahatma Gandhi University 
• Palamuru University 
• Satavahana University
• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University 
• Telangana Mahila Viswavidyalayam 

As the name suggests, Common Post Graduate Entrance Test (CPGET), Osmania University conducts this entrance exam only for post graduate courses, namely, MA, MBA, MSc, MHRM, MCom, MPEd, MEd, MSW and M.Lib.I.Sc. 

Yes, the CPGET 2025 notification will mention the exam centre cities. However, to find the exam venue addresses, candidates are suggested that they refer to their CPGET admit cards. 

Applicants who wish to apply for CPGET for a MSc Computer Science programme must have the following educational qualifications - 

• A BSc degree with Mathematics and Computer Science (or Computer Applications) subjects as optionals and must have studied a minimum of 24 credits in each subject OR
• A BSc degree with Mathematics and Computer Science (or Computer Applications) subjects as optionals and must have studied these subjects for at least 4 papers of 100 marks each in a year-wise programme OR
• A BCA degree. 

If you wish to get into an MA Kannada programme through CPGET, you must have the following qualifications - 

• You must have obtained a Bachelor's degree with Kannada as one of the languages OR
• You must have studied the Kannada language in Bachelor's degree either in Part-I or in Part-II for at least two years and for a minimum of 200 marks.

According to Osmania University's official website, a graduate from any discipline can apply for the Master of Social Work (MSW) degree through CPGET. 

In order to appear for CPGET for an MA in Arabic, a candidate must have the following educational qualifications - 

• Must have a Bachelor's Degree with Arabic as a subject OR
• Any graduate with a diploma in Functional Arabic offered by NCPUL, New Delhi/ Diploma in Arabic offered by Jamia Nizamia, Hyderabad OR
• Must have studied Arabic in Bachelor's degree either in Part-I or in Part-II for at least two years and for a minimum of 200 marks. 

Osmania University may or may not extend the last date of the CPGET application process. For the 2024 entrance test, they did extend the last date twice. However, the first extension came with an extra late fee of INR 500 and the second  extension cost students INR 2000 extra on the application form fee. 

While filling the CPGET application form, applicants may have to upload the following documents. 

• Scanned image of latest passport-sized photgraph.
• Scanned image of signature. 
• Caste certificate (if applicable)
• EWS certificate (if applicable)
• Proof of latest income (if applicable)
• Aadhar Card
• PH certificate (if applicable)

No, in case an applicant does not take the exam, CPGET application fee will not be refunded. 

No, CPGET application forms are only available online and can only be submitted only. They will be available on Osmania University's official website - osmania.ac.in. Forms recieved by any other means will not be considered for candidature at all. 

Once CPGET results are announced, candidates are called for counselling. Before appearing for their counselling session, candidates must put in their college preferences online. A separate link is provided by the exam body on their website for this. Candidates must do this within a set time frame. This is what exercising web options is.

Candidates are advised to keep an eye on the official website so that they do not miss out on their counselling session. CPGET counselling is done in phases. If you miss out on all the phases of the counselling process, your candidature maybe cancelled and you might have to reappear for CPGET of the next academic session. 

If you find any errors on your CPGET admit card reach out the exam authorities and have them corrected well before the exam date. You can find the contact details in the 'About Us' section of Osmania University's official website. 

In case you cannot download your admit card despite successfully submitting the application form, it may be that your application has been rejected. If you're confident that is not the case, you must reach out to the exam body well before the exam. In order to contact the CPGET conducting body, visit - https://www.osmania.ac.in/contactus.php. 

According to the CPGET pattern, candidates are given 90 minutes or one and a half hours to attempt all the questions. The test paper will contain a 100 questions for most subjects. 

The CPGET papers for subjective and language courses like Hindi, Arabic, English, Psychology, Philosophy, etc. have subjective questions. You might be required to write descriptions, short essays, translations and comment on situation based questions.

Candidates can carry any ball point pen for signing their attendance for CPGET. However, they do not have to answer using pens since CPGET is a computer-based entrance test.

The CPGET syllabus for Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication is listed below - 

Part A - Comprehension of a passage, sentence construction, identifying grammatical errors, spellings, synonyms and antonyms, and logic and reasoning. 

Part B - Media awareness, current affairs, general awareness, and words frequently used in media.

The CPGET syllabus for MA in English is provided in the table below - 

There are two parts to the CPGET syllabus for MA in Theatre Arts. The first part of the syllabus will make for 40 marks of the test while the rest of the questions will be asked from the second part. The topics of both parts are provided below - 

Part A (40 marks) - World Theatre – History and Development of World Theatre (Greek, Britain, German, France, Japan, Russian, Poland, American), Sanskrit Theatre – The History of Sanskrit Theatre, Major Playwrights and their contributions. 

Part B (60 marks) - Folk Theatre Forms of Andhra Pradesh – Major and Marginal folk forms of AP with special reference to Veedhi Natakam, Burra Katha, Oggu Katha and Puppetry, Telugu Theatre: History and development of Telugu Theatre (1860 to up to date) – Major Playwrights, Plays, Associations, Actors, Directors and their contribution, Origin of Telugu Theatre, Padya Natakam (Musical Theatre), Modern Telugu Theatre and Modern Street Theatre, Indian Theatre. 

Candidate who wish to take CPGET for an MA in Economics must study the topics provided below - 

Micro Economics

• Basics and Introduction to Economics
• Theory of Consumer Behaviour
• Supply and Demand Analysis
• Theory of Production 
• Production Costs - Concepts and Types 
• Types of Revenue and Objectives of Firm
• Perfect Competition and Monopoly 
• Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly Markets 
• Pricing Strategies 
• Distribution and Factor Pricing

Macro Economics

• Introduction
• Theories of Output and Employment 
• Investment & Theories of Interest Rate 
• Supply of Money & Demand for Money
• Inflation and Business Cycles

Public Economics 

• Introduction 
• Public Expenditure 
• Taxation and Public Debt 
• Fiscal Policy & Federal Finance 
• Budget

Development Economics 

• Economic Development and Growth
• Factors in Economic Development 
• Theories of Economic Development 
• Theories of Underdevelopment 

International Economics 

• Theories of International Trade 
• Trade and Growth 
• Barriers to Trade 
• Balance of Payments

See more here. 

The top universities across the country publish online BSc application forms and shortlist applicants based on their class 10 and 12 performances. Many universities, however, administer an entrance exam to grant admission to BSc students. NEST, UPCATET, ICAR AIEEA, CUCET, PUCET, BHU CET, and other entrance exams are usually taken by candidates wishing to get admission to BSc.The qualifying cut-off mark in OUCET (CPGET) 2024 is 25%. The candidate must have scored 25 marks out of a total of 100 marks in OUCET (CPGET) 2024. Candidates belonging to SC / ST have no qualifying percentage marks for OUCET (CPGET) 2024.

The part A of MS Linguistics in CPEGT exam is of 40 marks. Some of the important topics asked in MS Linguistics in CPEGT exams are popular ideas and beliefs about language, countries/States and their official languages, languages and the scripts in which they are written, names of the language families to which a given language belongs to, the largest/Second the largest spoken language in a country/region, awareness of language-related subjects, famous authors of the world and the language in which they wrote/have been writing, world-famous books and the language in which they are written

General English: awareness of English alphabets and the sounds they represent, spelling, basic knowledge of English grammar, synonyms and antonyms

Meanwhile, part B is of 60 marks. This section consists of 60 bits based on the natural/hypothetical language data to test the Analytical ability of the candidate.

You can get a seat in Palamauru University for B.Sc, if you get 75 percentile in CPGET. Based on the reservation system you cannot get a seat, but if you are a student who belongs to sc/st caste you can get a seat easily by getting 75 percentile in CPGET. If you are a student from other castes or BC, then the seat allotment is given based on more percentile and cut off of the college. In 2023 cut-off the students with 75 percentile got seats. 

The reservation policy for SC, ST and BC candidates in CPGET exam are as follows: 
Of the total number of seats available in each subject/course, following is the schedule of reservation of seats for these categories.
Schedules Caste- 15 percent
Scheduled Tribe- 10 percent 

Candidates qualified in CPGET are eligible for admissions into Campus, Constituent and Affiliated colleges of Osmania, Kakatiya, Telangana, Mahatma Gandhi, Palamuru, Satavahana, Telangana Mahila Viswavidyalayam (TMV) and JNTUH Universities. The candidates with other than B.A. / B.Sc. / B.Com. qualification like B.E., B.Tech., B. Pharmacy, LLB (5 yrs), B.C.A., etc. must go through the eligibility conditions before applying to ensure their eligibility. 

The results of the entrance tests is released on the official websites. No personal intimation in this regard will be sent to the candidates. Before declaring the entrance test results Key & Question paper for all subjects is made available for inviting Objections in websites for a mentioned period after that the Key & Question paper will be removed from the websites.

The CPGET merit list will contain the application numbers, roll numbers, counselling details and dates of completing admission formalities for selected candidates. 

Admissions are conducted through a process of web based counseling. The schedule for certificate verification will be announced after the declaration of CPGET results. Before allotment of admissions, the qualified and eligible candidates have to exercise options through web in the order of their preference. If the admitted candidates in each course should be found less than 10 after the second web options than that course will be cancelled for that academic year.

Yes, candidates have to pay a separate registration fee for CPGET counselling. The CPGET counselling fee for different categories is provided in the table below. 

Wherever applicable, a minimum of 33.33% of the available seats in each course will be allotted to women candidates from each category, i.e. Open, S.C., S.T. and in all the groups in BC category taking a subject in each college as a unit. This rule is not applicable (i) if women candidates selected on merit in each category form 33.33 % or more of the seats therein; and (ii) for seats under various special categories. In the absence of suitable women candidates in the respective categories, these seats shall be filled in with men candidates of the same category. 

The reservation policy for local and non-local candidates in CPGET are as follows:
i) Admission to 85% of the available seats in every course shall be reserved in favour of the local candidates in relation to the local area in respect of Telangana. subject to community and other reservations in force.
ii) The remaining 15% of the seats which are open to local and non -locals shall be filled up subject to similar reservation as applicable to 85% local candidates

The reservation policy for backward class and EWS candidates in CPGET exam are as follows:
Backward Class
Group A- 7 percent
Group B- 10 percent
Group C- 1 percent
Group D- 7 percent
Group E- 4 percent (subject to court decision)
EWS- As per the government orders of Telangana Government.

Admissions are conducted through a process of web based counseling. The schedule for certificate verification has been announced at the official website of the exam. Before allotment of admissions, the qualified and eligible candidates have to exercise options through web in the order of their preference. If the admitted candidates in each course should be found less than 10 after the second web options than that course will be cancelled for that academic year. 

The Hall Tickets along with entrance schedules and necessary instructions are released on CPGET official websites ahead of the entrance tests. The candidates are supposed to download the Hall Tickets and affix a the latest passport size photograph (which is exactly similar to the one uploaded in the Online Application) in the space provided and get itself attested. Without the Hall Ticket (with self attested photograph), the candidate are not allowed to appear for entrance test. 

Candidates seeking admission shall submit Medical Certificate from appropriate Medical Authority as prescribed in the Government Order. The priorities and the categories are as follows. Categories of the Handicapped are (i) Blind (ii) Deaf (iii) Orthopedically Handicapped/Physically Handicapped.

Priorities: 
1. First priority to those with visual defects.
Classification:
Visual defect: Blind: A person who cannot see for all practical purposes being blind in both the eyes. Person with failing
eye-sight due to old age or those who use spectacles and cannot see without them will not however be treated as blind
1. A person can be said to be visually handicapped if he suffers from any of the following conditions.
a) Total absence of sight.
b) If the vision is from 6/18 upto 6/60 and anything less than shall be considered as an extreme handicap. The above
criteria shall also be made applicable to persons with vision in both the eyes but coming within the range of defects
indicated above.
c) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (shellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses.
d) Limitation of the sealed off vision subtending an angle of 20 degrees or more.