CUET UG Result 2024: Commerce, Arts subjects have highest number of top scorers

The highest number of students scored full marks (200) in Business Studies (8,024), followed by Political Science (5,141), History (2,520) and English (1683).

Published on: Jul 29, 2024, 11:12:03 IST

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A majority of students who have secured full marks in the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate (CUET UG 2024) appeared for Commerce and Arts subjects, the data shared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) reveals. The result of the entrance test was declared yesterday, July 29. CUET UG result 2024 live updates.

CUET UG result was announced yesterday (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)

The highest number of students scored full marks (200) in Business Studies (8,024), followed by Political Science (5,141), History (2,520) and English (1683).

The number of top scorers in Science subjects is significantly low when compared to the other two streams. The highest number of candidates who scored full marks in a Science stream subject is for the Biology/BiologicalStudies/Biotechnology /Biochemistry paper (835 candidates). For Chemistry, the number is 398 and for Physics, it is 114.

There are 12 subjects in which 100 or more candidates have obtained full marks-

Name of subject	Number of candidates registered	Number of candidates appeared	Highest marks	Number of students who secured highest marks
English	1007645	822518	200	1683
Accountancy/Book Keeping	180864	156473	200	1135
Agriculture	48642	29316	200	180
Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry	391605	313683	200	835
Business Studies	193300	166022	200	8024
Chemistry	702050	561719	200	398
Economics/Business Economics	214056	184136	200	430
Geography/Geology	83348	70551	200	373
History	137623	117807	200	2520
Physics	673038	530936	200	114
Political Science	161405	138566	200	5141
Psychology	31815	20547	200	1602

In total, 1347820 unique candidates registered for CUET UG 2024, of whom 1113610 appeared for the test.

When a candidate appearing for multiple papers is also taken into consideration, the total registrations for this year's exam is 57,71,668, and the total number of candidates who appeared for the test is 46,21,670.

The first-ever hybrid CUET was held in May. For papers which had a high number of candidates, the exam was taken on OMR sheets and for subjects with a lower number of candidates, it was held as a Computer-Based Test (CBT). A re-examination was also conducted on July 19.

The NTA published final answer keys of all subjects before announcing the result.

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