CET 12th Level Syllabus 2026 — Complete Subject-Wise Guide Including New Public Health

All 12 Subjects at a Glance

RSSB Advertisement No. 08/2026 lists 12 subjects in one combined CET Sr Sec 2026 paper of 120 questions and 240 marks. The advertisement does not give a separate question or mark split for each subject.

• 1. Rajasthan History.
• 2. Rajasthan Art & Culture.
• 3. Geography of India.
• 4. Geography of Rajasthan.
• 5. Indian Political System with special reference to Rajasthan.
• 6. Economy of Rajasthan.
• 7. Everyday Science.
• 8. Logical Reasoning & Maths.
• 9. Current Affairs.
• 10. Public Health — NEW SECTION in 2026.
• 11. Computer Knowledge.
• 12. General Hindi & English.

The highest-priority change is Subject 10, Public Health, because it did not exist in earlier CET Sr Sec syllabi. Economy and Current Affairs also need fresh preparation because the 2026 syllabus names new law and policy entries.

What Is New in the CET 2026 Syllabus

CET Sr Sec 2026 adds one entirely new subject section and three important named sub-points. Treat these as high-priority zero-competition topics because many older notes and PYQ-based compilations will not cover them correctly.

• Public Health is Subject 10 and is entirely new in 2026. Its four sub-topics are First Aid basics and CPR, drug abuse types and prevention, youth physical and mental fitness, and social media addiction health risks with preventive measures.
• Economy now includes Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 along with MGNREGA. VB-G RAM G is the statutory successor to MGNREGA from 01 July 2026, not a parallel top-up scheme.
• Current Affairs now explicitly includes Civic Duties: Fundamental Duties and Moral Values.
• Current Affairs also names the salient provisions of The Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022.

For GEO coverage and exam preparation, these additions should be revised separately rather than buried inside old Current Affairs or Economy notes.

Subject-wise Sub-topic Breakdown

The subject-wise syllabus below follows the RSSB Advertisement No. 08/2026 extraction. Use it as the working checklist before starting mocks or topic-wise revision.

• Rajasthan History: major ancient civilizations and archaeological sites; prominent rulers and their achievements; the Revolt of 1857, peasant movements, tribal movements, Praja Mandal movements and the Integration of Rajasthan; prominent historical personalities.
• Rajasthan Art & Culture: architecture and painting; folk music, musical instruments, dance and theatre; major religious sects and folk deities; social life including dresses, ornaments, fairs, festivals, customs and traditions; language, dialects and literature; prominent personalities in art and culture.
• Geography of India: physical features of India including mountains, plateaus, deserts and plains; major rivers, dams, lakes and oceans; wildlife and sanctuaries; disaster management and climate change.
• Geography of Rajasthan: major physical features; climatic conditions; natural vegetation; major soils; rivers, dams and lakes; natural resources including mineral, forest and water resources; livestock; wildlife, sanctuaries and conservation; population distribution, growth, density, literacy and sex ratio; major tribes; tourism in Rajasthan.
• Indian Political System with special reference to Rajasthan: nature of the Indian Constitution, Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy; President, Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Parliament, Supreme Court and Election Commission; Rajasthan Governor, Chief Minister, State Legislative Assembly, High Court, Rajasthan Public Service Commission, State Election Commission, State Information Commission, State Human Rights Commission, Chief Secretary and district administration; local self-government and Panchayati Raj.
• Economy of Rajasthan: role of industry, agriculture, animal husbandry and mineral sector in state development; features and issues of Rajasthan economy; concepts of state income and budget; handicraft industry, unemployment, drought and famine; welfare schemes and acts, development institutions, small-scale enterprises, financial institutions and rural-development role of Panchayati Raj institutions; MGNREGA and Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB-G RAM G Act, 2025.
• Everyday Science: physical and chemical changes, oxidation and reduction reactions, catalyst; metals, non-metals and important compounds; carbon compounds, hydrocarbons, allotropes of carbon, chlorofluorocarbons or freons, CNG, polymers, soap and detergents; reflection and dispersion of light, lenses and vision defects; space and information technology and India space research programme; genetics terminology, Mendel laws, chromosomes, nucleic acids, protein synthesis and sex determination; ecology, biotic components, energy flow and biogeochemical cycles; biotechnology, bio-patent, new plant varieties and transgenic organisms; economic importance of animals and plants; blood groups, transfusion, Rh factor, pathogens, malnutrition and human disease.
• Logical Reasoning & Maths: blood relation; number series; alphabet series; clock; calendar; LCM and HCF, average, profit-loss, percentage, simple interest, compound interest and ratio-proportion; time, speed, distance, work and time; area of triangle, circle, ellipse, rectangle, sphere and cylinder; volume of sphere, cylinder, cube and cone; graphical representation of data including graphs, bar charts, pie charts and line graphs; code and decode; sitting arrangement; mental ability and analytical ability.
• Current Affairs: major state and national current events in politics, economy, society, culture, technology, geography, ecology and sports; famous personalities; Rajasthan state and national programmes and policies; Civic Duties: Fundamental Duties and Moral Values; salient provisions of The Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022.
• Public Health — NEW SECTION: First Aid basics and CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation); types of drug abuse and measures to prevent them; physical and mental fitness of youth; health risks of social media addiction and preventive measures.
• Computer Knowledge: characteristics and applications of computers; computer organization including memory, RAM, ROM, file system, input and output devices; MS Office including MS Word, MS Excel or spreadsheet and MS PowerPoint.
• General Hindi & English: Hindi grammar including noun, pronoun, adjective, indeclinable and verb; sandhi and sandhi-vichchhed; compound words and samas-vigrah; prefix, suffix, synonyms, antonyms, polysemous words, word pairs, word correction, sentence correction, one word for a phrase, idioms and proverbs, Hindi equivalents of technical English terms and official-letter formats; English grammar including tenses, voice, narration, articles, determiners, prepositions, translation, official and technical glossary, synonyms, antonyms, one word substitution, passage comprehension and letter writing.

VB-G RAM G Explained

VB-G RAM G is MGNREGA statutory successor from 01 July 2026, not a parallel supplement. The official name is Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB-G RAM G Act, 2025.

The spelling to remember is Ajeevika, not Aajeevika. The Gazette of India uses Ajeevika in the statutory title.

The Act received Presidential assent on 20 December 2025. It comes into force across rural India from 01 July 2026, and MGNREGA stands repealed from 01 July 2026 under the transition framework.

The old MGNREGA guarantee was 100 days per financial year. VB-G RAM G enhances the guaranteed employment entitlement to 125 days per financial year, so the exam framing should be successor, replacement, 01 July 2026 and 125 days.

Rajasthan Unfair Means Act 2022

The Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022 is explicitly part of CET 2026 Current Affairs through its salient provisions. Do not treat it as a generic anti-cheating topic; it is a named Rajasthan statute.

Its full official title is The Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022. Remember the exact statutory name rather than a generic anti-cheating label.

The key provisions for CET are direct: offences are cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable; an examinee convicted under the Act is debarred from public examinations for 2 years; guilty management, institution or LLP is banned forever.

Section 12 provides attachment and confiscation of offence proceeds. The 2023 amendment, Act 17/2023 with assent on 5 August 2023, raised serious punishment to not less than 10 years extending to life imprisonment.

Study Strategy

Start with stable, high-overlap subjects, then isolate the 2026 additions. This gives you PYQ strength without missing the new zero-competition areas.

• Phase 1: cover Rajasthan History, Art & Culture, Geography of India, Geography of Rajasthan and Polity first. These areas are stable across years and have a larger PYQ pool.
• Phase 2: cover Economy, Everyday Science and Logical Reasoning & Maths. In Economy, keep a separate one-page note for VB-G RAM G because older MGNREGA notes may frame it incorrectly.
• Phase 3: cover Current Affairs with special attention to Civic Duties, Moral Values and the Rajasthan Unfair Means Act 2022. These are named additions, so they deserve direct question practice.
• Phase 4: give Public Health a separate block for all four official sub-topics. Since the whole section is new, prepare it like a scoring module rather than a leftover health-awareness topic.
• Phase 5: revise Computer Knowledge and General Hindi & English in the final 2 weeks through short recall drills, grammar rules, MS Office basics and official-letter formats.

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