Documents Required for DU Admission 2026: Complete CUET UG Checklist
I have now been through the CUET UG process twice, once for my own admission in 2024 and once again this year, helping my cousin fill her CSAS form. Both times the actual exam was the easy part. The thing that nearly cost us a seat was a document. Last week my cousin’s category certificate got rejected at the upload stage because the file was 340 KB instead of the 300 KB limit. Nobody warns you about things like that.
So this is the document list I wish someone had handed me in 2024, written for where you are right now: CUET UG 2026 result is out, DU CSAS registration opened on June 27, and you have a narrow window to get every paper in order before Phase 2 choice filling begins.
Why documents matter more than your CUET score, at this stage
Delhi University admission 2026 runs entirely through the Common Seat Allocation System, and CSAS allots seats on your normalised CUET UG percentile and your locked preferences. Your Class 12 marks are not used to calculate your rank at all. But they still matter, because every document you uploaded for CUET UG, and every one you upload again for CSAS, gets checked at document verification. A missing or mismatched document at that stage can hold up your admission even if your score and preferences were both good enough to get you the seat.
In other words: the Common University Entrance Test decides your eligibility, but your paperwork decides whether that eligibility actually turns into a confirmed seat.
Documents required for CUET UG registration 2026
If you registered for CUET UG back in January, you already submitted most of this. I am listing it again because a lot of students are now being asked to re-verify the same details during DU CSAS registration, and the requirements are nearly identical.
Documents required for CUET UG registration for general category
- Class 10 certificate or marksheet, used to confirm your name and date of birth exactly as they appear on official records
- Class 12 marksheet, or a bonafide/appearing certificate from your school if your board result was not out at the time of CUET registration
- A government photo ID: Aadhaar card, passport, voter ID, PAN card, or driving licence
- A recent passport-size photograph, JPG or JPEG format, 10 KB to 200 KB, with 80 percent of the face visible against a white background
- A scanned signature in black ink on white paper, JPG or JPEG format, roughly 4 KB to 50 KB depending on the year’s specification
- A working personal email ID and mobile number, since NTA sends every update there and will not entertain “I did not get the message”
Documents required for CUET UG registration for OBC, SC, ST, EWS and PwBD candidates
If you are claiming any category benefit, add these to the general list above:
- OBC-NCL certificate, issued within the current financial year, since an older certificate is routinely rejected at DU document verification even if NTA accepted it
- SC or ST certificate issued by the competent authority
- EWS certificate, also required to be current, usually not older than one year from the date of submission
- PwBD or UDID certificate from an authorised medical officer, if you are claiming disability relaxation in either CUET or DU admission
Each category certificate needs to be a clear scanned PDF, generally between 50 KB and 300 KB. This is the exact limit that tripped up my cousin, so check the file size before you try to upload, not after the portal rejects it.
Document for CUET UG exam centre
This part is already behind most of you since CUET UG 2026 ran from May 11 to May 31, but I am keeping it here because students preparing for next year’s cycle land on this page too. At the exam centre you needed:
- A printed copy of the admit card along with the filled self-declaration page
- One original, valid photo ID, the same type you used during registration
- One passport-size photograph matching the one uploaded in your application, to be pasted on the attendance sheet
What do we have to do after getting a CUET result?
CUET UG 2026 results were declared on June 23. If you have not done these four things yet, do them before anything else.
- Download and save your CUET UG scorecard from cuet.nta.nic.in using your application number and date of birth. Keep both a PDF and a printed copy.
- Register on the DU CSAS portal at admission.uod.ac.in using the same CUET application number, roll number, and date of birth. Registration opened on June 27.
- Re-upload or confirm your documents on the CSAS portal. Some fields are auto-fetched from the NTA database, but photographs, category certificates, and PwBD certificates usually need to be uploaded again separately.
- Pay the CSAS Phase 1 registration fee: ₹250 for General, OBC-NCL, and EWS candidates, ₹100 for SC, ST, and PwBD candidates.
Phase 2, where you actually fill college and course preferences, opens only after this registration step and typically follows a similar gap to last year, when Phase 2 began roughly two weeks after results.
How many documents are required for CUET UG after the result
For DU CSAS specifically, plan for nine to twelve documents depending on your category and the programme you are applying to. Here is the breakdown by category.
General category
- CUET UG 2026 scorecard
- Class 10 certificate or marksheet
- Class 12 marksheet
- Passport-size photograph
- Signature
- Government photo ID
- Migration certificate (required only at the time of admission confirmation, not at registration, but get it ready now)
OBC-NCL
Everything in the General list, plus a current-year OBC-NCL certificate. DU has been strict about the “non-creamy layer” wording and the issue date in recent years, so do not reuse a certificate from two years ago even if it technically has not expired.
SC and ST
Everything in the General list, plus your SC or ST certificate issued by the competent authority, in the candidate’s own name.
EWS
Everything in the General list, plus an EWS certificate that is current for the admission year. DU treats an expired EWS certificate as equivalent to not having one at all.
PwBD
Everything in the General list, plus your PwBD or UDID certificate, and a disability certificate from a government hospital if you are claiming any seat reservation or relaxation on that basis.
Documents required for CUET UG after result PDF: how to keep yours organised
A lot of students search for a downloadable PDF version of this list mainly because they want something to refer to without re-reading an entire article each time. My suggestion: open this page, take a screenshot of the category list that applies to you, and save it to your phone. Scan every physical document now, before counselling rounds start moving fast, and keep them in a single folder named clearly by document type rather than by date. When you are racing a 24-hour upload deadline during Phase 2 or Phase 3, you do not want to be hunting through your downloads folder for a category certificate you scanned three months ago.
Common document mistakes I have seen this admission cycle
A few patterns kept showing up while I was helping people with their CSAS forms this week.
Name mismatches are the most common one. If your Class 10 marksheet spells your name slightly differently from your Aadhaar card, even by a missing middle name, fix it before you submit anything. DU document verification teams do flag this.
Outdated category certificates are the second most common issue, especially for OBC-NCL and EWS, both of which need to be current for the admission year and not simply “still within five years,” which is a common misunderstanding.
File size rejections happen constantly and are completely avoidable. Compress your PDF before uploading instead of trying five times and assuming the portal is broken.
Frequently asked questions
What do we have to do after getting a CUET result? Download your scorecard, register on the DU CSAS portal, re-confirm or re-upload your documents, and pay the Phase 1 registration fee before the deadline.
How many documents are required for CUET UG after the result? Generally nine to twelve, depending on your category. General category candidates need fewer documents than reserved category candidates, who also need a current category or disability certificate.
Are documents required for CUET UG registration different from documents required for DU admission? They overlap heavily, but DU CSAS asks you to re-upload several documents separately even if NTA already verified them, and it adds a migration certificate requirement at the final admission stage that CUET registration does not ask for.
Is a Class 10 certificate compulsory if I already have my Class 12 marksheet? Yes. DU and NTA both use the Class 10 certificate specifically to confirm your date of birth, which is treated as the official record over any other document.
Can I submit an old OBC or EWS certificate from last year? No, not for EWS and OBC-NCL. Both need to be issued within the current financial year for DU admission purposes, even if NTA accepted an older one during CUET registration.
I am a BA Political Science student at Delhi University, and I update this page as DU releases new CSAS instructions through the 2026 admission cycle. If something here is out of date or you ran into a document issue I have not covered, the contact form on ClarityWire reaches me directly.