Cotton University PG Entrance Exam: Download Previous Year’s Question Papers now

If you are a student, who has applied for admission into postgraduate courses at Cotton University this year and is currently looking for the previous year’s question papers for the Cotton University PG Entrance Exam (CPGEE), then you are in the right place.

The examination schedule for Cotton University Post Graduate Entrance Examination (CPGEE) 2025 has been recently declared by the authorities on the official website. The entrance test will begin on the 1st week of July 2025. Earlier this month, Cotton University opened the application portal for PG Admissions on the 10th of June, and the application portal closed on the 20th of June, 2025.

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Admission Procedure

(a) For Cotton Graduates

The candidates, who have graduated from Cotton University itself in the years 2024 and 2025 can get their admissions via the following methods:

• CGPA-Based Admission: In all subjects requiring candidates to have honours in the concerned subject, the Cotton graduate can be admitted based on their CGPA in bachelor’s degree. Such candidates should have a minimum of 5.5 CGPA for admissions (5.3 for OBC/ MOBC and 5.0 for SC/ ST candidates)
• Entrance-Based Admission: In those subjects for which the eligibility criteria of Honours/ Major in the qualifying UG Degree does not specify the concerned subject only, admissions will be based on CPGEE 2025 scores. Here is the list of such courses:
  • MA in Ancient Indian History, Culture, and Archaeology
  • Master of Computer Applications
  • M.Sc in Environmental Biology & Wildlife Sciences
• The standard reservation policy set by the government of Assam for OBC/ MOBC/ ST(P)/ ST(H)/ SC/ EWS/ PWD candidates will be followed while admitting Cotton graduates.

(b) For Open Category Seats

• On the other hand, for the remaining 50% of seats in such courses and 100% of seats in programmes like Master in Library Science, LLM, M.Com, and MA in Bodo; the admission will be based on the candidate’s performance in the Cotton University Postgraduate Entrance Test, also known as CPGEE.
• The standard reservation policy set by the government of Assam for OBC/ MOBC/ ST(P)/ ST(H)/ SC/ EWS/ PWD candidates will also be applicable for admissions in open category seats.

CPGEE 2025 & Merit List

The Cotton University PG Entrance Exam 2025 will probably be conducted by the last week of June. This will be an OMR-based paper and candidates will need to solve 50 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in 90 minutes. The candidates will be awarded 4 marks for each of their correct answers and 1 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.

The question papers for Cotton University PG Entrance Exam 2025 will be based on Cotton University’s syllabus for the corresponding undergraduate course. And for programmes, which are not available in the UG curriculum of the university; question papers will be based on the standard syllabuses of reputed universities under UGC.

CPGEE: Exam Pattern

• The Cotton University PG Entrance Examination (CPGEE) is conducted in offline mode via an OMR-based paper
• Candidates are asked to solve 50 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in 90 minutes of time.
• The candidates will receive 4 marks for each of their correct answers and 1 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.
• The question papers of the Cotton University PG Entrance Exam will be based on Cotton University’s syllabus for the corresponding undergraduate course.
• And for programmes, which are not available in the UG curriculum of the university; question papers will be based on the standard syllabuses of reputed universities under UGC.

CPGEE Question Papers 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024

All the candidates who are going to appear in the Cotton University PG Entrance Examination (CPGEE) 2025 can now download the last two year’s question papers from the links given below.

Master of Arts (MA)

Here are the previous year’s question papers of the Cotton University PG Entrance Exam (CPGEE) for different departments (subjects) in the Arts stream:

SL. NO.	COURSES	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	Ancient Indian History, Culture, and Archaeology
2	Anthropology	Click here	Click here
3	Arabic
4	Assamese	Click here
5	Bengali
6	Bodo
7	Economics	Click here	Click here	Click Here
8	Education	Click here
9	English	Click here	Click here	Click Here
10	Hindi	Click here
11	History	Click here
12	Mass Communication and Journalism		Click here
13	Persian
14	Philosophy	Click here	Click here
15	Political Science	Click here
16	Psychology	Click here
17	Sanskrit		Click here
18	Sociology	Click here			Click Here

Master of Science (M.Sc)

Here are the previous year’s question papers of the Cotton University PG Entrance Exam (CPGEE) for different departments (subjects) in the Science stream:

SL. NO.	Courses	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
2	Botany	Click here	Click here
3	Chemistry	Click here
4	Environmental Biology and Wildlife Sciences	Click here	Click Here	Click Here
5	Geography	Click here	Click here	Click here	Click here
6	Geology	Click here
7	Mathematics	Click here	Click here	Click Here	Click Here
8	Molecular Biology and Biotechnology	Click here
9	Physics	Click here	Click here
10	Statistics
11	Zoology	Click here	Click here

For Other Courses

Here are the previous year’s question papers for the Cotton University PG Entrance Exam (CPGEE) for some other courses:

SL. NO.	COURSES	2021	2022	2023
1	Master in Computer Applications (MCA)	Click here
2	Master of Library & Information Science	Click here
3	Master of Law (LLM)

Notes

• We would like to thank all the people, who have helped us in collecting all the previous year’s question papers for Cotton University PG Entrance Exam. On a special note, thanks to Amar Krishna Narayan as he has helped us a lot!
• Please send us the previous papers so that we can help more people in the coming days. You can mail them to us at info@bohikitap.in

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