Domain paper 321

CUET Physical Education (Yoga, Sports)

CUET Physical Education (paper 321) spans nine units: health programmes, sports psychology, games and sports, yoga, nutrition and injuries, sports policy and awards, training methods, fitness tests, and physiology with biomechanics. NCERT has no single Class 12 textbook for it, so use the official outline with the CBSE Physical Education (048) course and a senior-secondary reference such as the NIOS Physical Education and Yog course. Questions reward exact facts: court sizes, award years, asana categories, test items and lever classes. Make short tables for each game and test, and learn the yoga names carefully.

9 units
50 questions · 60 min
+5 / −1 marking
No NCERT textbook · CBSE Physical Education (048) course and NIOS Physical Education and Yog (373)
51,362 appeared in 2026

What to study in each unit

Based on the official NTA 2026 syllabus, mapped to skill areas.

Unit	What to study	Skill area
Unit I: Health status and programmes in India	National Health Policy and the National Rural Health Mission Undernutrition and overnutrition; school health services, mid-day meals and adolescence education Inclusive physical education for children with special needs Typhoid, influenza, malaria, dengue and HIV: cause, spread, symptoms and prevention Diabetes, hypertension, obesity and arthritis as non-communicable diseases Mid-day meal Vector Non-communicable disease	Health and programmes
Unit II: Psychological and sociological aspects	Sports psychology; intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation and techniques to motivate athletes Personality: Jung's introvert-extrovert-ambivert, Sheldon's endomorph-mesomorph-ectomorph, the Big Five (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) Emotion, anxiety and aggression in sport; instrumental versus hostile aggression Leadership qualities developed through games; physical education and national integration Intrinsic motivation Mesomorph Conscientiousness	Sports psychology and sociology
Unit III: Games and sports theory	Athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, football and gymnastics Handball, hockey, judo, kabaddi, kho-kho and volleyball Swimming, table tennis and wrestling Field and court dimensions, team sizes, officials, general rules and basic skills of each Court dimensions Fundamental skills Officials	Games and sports
Unit IV: Yoga	Surya Namaskar sequence Standing (Vrikshasana, Trikonasana, Padahastasana, Utkatasana, Ardha Chakrasana) and sitting asanas (Parvatasana, Ustrasana, Yogmudra, Simhasana, Dhanurasana, Sukhasana) Prone (Makarasana, Shalabhasana, Bhujangasana), supine (Viparita Karani, Sarvangasana) and advanced (Kukkutasana, Mayurasana) asanas Kriyas: Kapalbhati, Tratak, Neti, Dhauti; Uddiyana and Jalandhara bandhas Bhramari, Sheetali, Ujjayi and Nadi Shodhana pranayama; Yoga Nidra; do's and don'ts Kriya Jalandhara bandha Sheetali Prone asana	Yoga
Unit V: Nutrition and athlete care	Macronutrients, micronutrients and a balanced diet Diet before, during and after competition Food adulteration awareness; postural deformities and corrective exercises Soft-tissue injuries: sprain (ligament), strain (muscle or tendon), contusion, abrasion; dislocation Fractures: oblique, impacted, comminuted, transverse and greenstick Sprain Strain Greenstick fracture	Nutrition and athlete care
Unit VI: Sports policies and careers	National sports policies and their aims Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna (instituted 1991–92, renamed in 2021): highest sporting honour Arjuna Award (from 1961) for sportspersons; Dronacharya Award (from 1985) for coaches Career options and courses in physical education, coaching, sports management and yoga Khel Ratna Arjuna Award Dronacharya Award	Sports policy and careers
Unit VII: Fitness improvement	Strength: isometric (no visible movement), isotonic (movement through range) and isokinetic (constant speed on machines) Endurance: continuous, interval (work-recovery cycles) and fartlek (speed play over natural terrain) Speed: acceleration runs and pace runs Flexibility: ballistic stretching and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) Fartlek Interval training Isokinetic PNF	Sports training
Unit VIII: Measurement and evaluation	Standing broad jump and backward medicine-ball throw for explosive strength 50-metre sprint for speed 4 × 10 m shuttle run and SEMO agility test Flamingo static balance test and modified Bass dynamic balance test Rikli and Jones: chair stand, arm curl, chair sit-and-reach, back scratch, 8-foot up-and-go, 6-minute walk SEMO test Flamingo balance Rikli and Jones	Tests and measurement
Unit IX: Physiology and biomechanics	Physiological factors determining strength, speed, endurance and flexibility Effects of exercise on the muscular and cardiorespiratory systems (stroke volume, resting heart rate, muscle hypertrophy) Newton's laws of motion (inertia, acceleration, action-reaction) with sports examples First-, second- and third-class levers; mechanical advantage; body examples such as the elbow in a biceps curl Third-class lever Mechanical advantage Law of reaction	Physiology and biomechanics

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Official reference: NTA CUET UG 2026 Physical Education (Yoga, Sports) syllabus (paper 321, Physical Education (Yoga, Sports)) · Checked 4 Nov 2026 · Read the official PDF (opens in a new tab) · Study notes draw on: NTA CUET (UG) 2026 syllabus: Physical Education (321) (opens in a new tab), CBSE Physical Education (048) curriculum, Classes XI–XII (opens in a new tab), NIOS Senior Secondary Physical Education and Yog (373) study material (opens in a new tab). This is the 2026 syllabus, not a confirmed 2027 syllabus.