CUET 2026 Economics Important Topics and Chapter Wise Weightage

Topics

Expected Questions

Expected Weightage

Central Problems of an Economy, Production Possibility Frontier

2 to 3 questions

5%

Consumer’s Equilibrium & Demand:

6 to 7 questions

13%

Producer Behaviour & Supply

7 to 8 questions

15%

Forms of Market & Price Determination

7 to 8 questions

15%

National Income & Related Aggregates

7 to 8 questions

15%

Money & Banking

5 to 6 questions

11%

Determination of Income & Employment

6 to 7 questions

13%

Government Budget & Economy

5 to 6 questions

11%

Balance of Payments

5 to 6 questions

11%

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: Producer Behaviour and Supply

• Production function: returns to factor and returns to scale
• Supply: market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply curve movement along
  and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of supply, measurement of price elasticity of supply –
  percentage and geometric methods
• Cost and Revenue: Concepts of costs; short-run cost curves (fixed and variable costs; total, average
  and marginal costs); concepts of revenue – total, average and marginal revenue and their
  relationship. Producer’s equilibrium – with the help of MC and MR.

Unit 4: Forms of Market and Price Determination

• Forms of market- perfect competition
• Price determination under perfect competition-  equilibrium price, effects of shifts in demand and
  supply.

Unit 5: Simple Applications of Tools of Demand and Supply Curves

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

Number of questions

50

Number of questions to be attempted

50

Type of question

Multiple Choice Question (MCQ)

CUET Economics/ Business Economics exam duration

60 minutes

CUET marking scheme

+5 for each correct answer

-1 for each incorrect answer