BHU entrance exam for UG courses: Everything students need to know

The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) offers Under Graduate Honours courses in three streams: Arts, Science, Commerce and Law. However, for admission into these courses, one has to qualify their entrance exam, BHU Undergraduate Entrance Test, popularly called by its acronym BHU UET. It is a national level entrance exam conducted once every year by the university in partnership with National Testing Agency (NTA). Here is everything students need to know about this entrance test.

Eligibility criteria

Candidates must not be more than be 22 years during the time of application.
Candidates interested to pursue B.A. Honours must have successfully passed their class XII board exams with 50% or above aggregate and should have studied the relevant subject as part of their 10+2 curriculum. However, B.A. Economics candidates need to have studied Mathematics as part of their 10+2 curriculum.
Candidates interested to pursue B. Com Honours should have successfully passed their class XII board exams with 50% or above aggregate under the commerce stream with compulsory Mathematics.
Candidates interested to pursue B.Sc. Honours should have successfully passed their class XII board exams with 50% or above aggregate under the science stream with compulsory Mathematics for B.Sc. in Mathematics and compulsory Biology for B.Sc. in Zoology or Botany.
Candidates interested to pursue B.A. LLB should have successfully passed their class XII board exams with 50% or above aggregate under the any stream and should not be more than 30 years of age at the time of application.

Exam pattern
BHU UET has a single paper for all streams with 150 multiple-choice questions (MCQs). For B.A. and B. Com, the questions are from English, General Aptitude (current affairs and logical reasoning) and the relevant subject. For B.Sc., the paper is divided into three sections, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics/Biology having 50 questions each. B.A. LLB paper focuses on legal knowledge as well as General Aptitude (current affairs, comprehension skills and logical reasoning). The syllabus follows any 10+2 curriculum.

Marking scheme
The total marks of BHU UET are 450. Each correct question is given 3 marks. There is a negative marking of 1 mark for each wrong answer. Unattempted questions are not penalized. Candidates can choose to answer their papers in either English or Hindi.

Mode and duration
BHU UET is conducted offline through OMR sheets. B.A. and B.A. LLB are conducted for 2 hours, while B.Sc. and B.Com. are conducted for 2 hours and 30 minutes.