WBJEE-2021 Examination Dates Announced by WBJEEB

The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination – 2021 (WBJEE-2021) for the academic session of 2021-22, the Board is going to conduct the Common Entrance Examination for admission to Undergraduate Courses in Engineering & Technology, Pharmacy and Architecture Courses of different Universities, Government Colleges as well as Self Financing Engineering & Technological Institutes in the State of West Bengal.
West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board will conduct WBJEE-2021 for admission to degree e course in engineering technology architecture pharmacy in various inverse it is colleges and institutions in West Bengal for the academic session 2021-22.

Important Information:
Candidates are requested to go through the information bulletin carefully before applying for the examination.
Application for the examination must be done online only.

Fill genuine application forms which are available online only at www.wbjeeb.nic.in
Application fee for the examination is rupees 500 for general candidates and rupees 400 for SC, ST, OBC- A, OBC-B Candidates.

Do not wait for the last day to make fee payment to avoid payment failure by bank or EPG.

Enroll for the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations (WBJEE- 2021).
For more information call 1800-1023-781 & 1800-3450-050.

Important Dates – Schedule of WBJEE-2021.

SL	Activity	Date (with time)
1	Online application with payment of fees	23/02/21 (Tuesday) to 23/03/21 (Tuesday) 5 P.M.
2	Online correction and downloading revised confirmation page	24/03/21 (Wednesday) to 26/03/21 (Friday)
3	Publication of Downloadable Admit Card	06.07.21 (Tuesday) (tentative) to 11/07/21 (Sunday)
4	Publication of Results	To be notified later

Paper/ Subject	Date of Examination	Time schedule
Paper-I (Mathematics)	11.07.2021 (Sunday) (Tentative and may be changed in extraordinary)	11:00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Paper-II (Physics & Chemistry)	11.07.2021 (Sunday) (Tentative and may be changed in extraordinary)	2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Collect the official Exam Schedule of WBJEE-2021 as pdf.

Payment of Examination Fees:
a) The Examination Fees can be paid by Net Banking/ Debit Card/ Credit Card only.
b) Application fee for the examination is Rs 500 (Rupees five hundred only) for General candidates and Rs 400 (Rupees four hundred only) for SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B candidates, plus the Bank’s service charges as applicable.
c) SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/TFW candidates availing of the concession will have to upload respective certificates in given formats at the time of counselling, failing which his/her candidature will be cancelled.
d) The fee once paid is not refundable under any circumstances.

Pattern of Question Papers in WBJEE-2021
All questions will be of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ), with four options against each of the questions. There will be three categories of questions in each of the subjects. The number of questions as well as maximum marks for each are given in the following table:

Subjects	Category-I Full Marks-1No. of Questions	Category-II Full Marks-2No. of Questions	Category-III Full Marks-2No. of Questions	Total Number of Questions	Total Marks
Mathematics	50	15	10	75	100
Physics	30	05	05	40	50
Chemistry	30	05	05	40	50

Mode of answering in the examination.
a) Questions are to be answered on specially designed optical machine readable response (OMR) sheet, which will be evaluated by Optical Mark Recognition method. Thus, it is very important to follow the correct method of marking.
b) There will be four alternative answers for each question. Candidates will indicate response to the questions by darkening the appropriate circle completely with blue/black ball point pen.
c) Any other kind of marking e.g., filling the bubble incompletely, filling with pencil, cross mark, tick mark, dot mark, circular mark, over writing, scratching, erasing, white ink, marking outside the bubble etc. may lead to wrong/partial/ ambiguous reading of the response. WBJEEB will be, in no way, responsible for such eventuality.
d) Response marking cannot be edited/changed/erased/modified.

Scoring Methodology:

Category 1- Scoring methodology – a) Only one option is correct. b) Correct response will yield 1 (one) mark. c) Incorrect response will yield -1/4 (25% negative) marks. d) For any combination of response with more than one option, the said answer will be treated as incorrect and will yield -1/4 (25% negative) marks. e) Not attempting the question will fetch zero mark.

Category II- a) Only one option is correct. b) Correct response will yield 2(two) marks. c) Incorrect response will yield -1/2 (25% negative) marks. d) For any combination of response with more than one option, the said answer will be treated as incorrect and will yield -1/2 (25% negative) marks. e) Not attempting the question will fetch zero mark.

Category III-a) One or more options may be correct. b) Only all Correct response will yield 2(two) marks. c) Any combination of correct and wrong response will be treated as incorrect and will yield 0 (zero) mark.
d) For partially correct response, marks awarded will be = 2 x (no. of correct options marked  total no. of correct options).
e) Not attempting the question will fetch zero mark.

Ranking Methodology and publication of Merit Lists.
WBJEEB will prepare merit ranks based on the candidates’ score in the entrance test. Individual candidates will be able to view and download his/her Rank Card, which will contain score and rank. WBJEEB does not publish any rank / score list for public. Based on the papers (subjects) appeared in the WBJEE-2021 followed by marks scored there-of two separate Merit Ranks shall be generated by the Board as per the following method:
A. General Merit Rank: (GMR)
a. A list for General Merit Rank (GMR) shall be prepared based on the total score obtained in Paper-I and Paper-II taken together.
b. Ranking shall be done in the descending order of total marks scored in all the subjects. In case of ties, tie-breaking rules as given in 2.9 shall be applicable.
c. Separate reserved category merit position will also be indicated for respective category of students e.g., SC Rank, ST Rank, OBC-A Rank, OBC-B Rank, PwD Rank, TFW Rank.
d. Admission to all Engineering / Technology / Architecture Courses and to the Pharmacy Course in Jadavpur University shall be made based on GMR only.
e. Sequencing order for counselling / allotment of seat/admission will be based on GMR only (not on category ranks). Category ranks are only for information to candidates.
f. Category ranks are generated based on the birth category information given by the candidates during online application. If
during verification, any candidate’s claim is found invalid, his/her category rank will be cancelled and the candidate will be considered in general category. Category ranks of other candidates will not be revised.

Admit Card:
a) Admit cards will be generated on the notified date for the student to download and take a print. Candidate must carry a printed hard copy of the admit card to the examination centre.
b) Candidates must ensure that the admit card is not mutilated/ distorted/ soiled even by accident. Candidates with such mutilated/ distorted/ soiled admit cards will not be allowed to appear in the examination.
c) If a candidate needs a duplicate admit card after the examination, the same can be provided by the Board, but only till 60 days after the date of declaration of result. In order to get a duplicate, the candidate must apply to the Board and pay a processing fee of Rs. 500/- by a bank draft in the name of “West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board” payable in Kolkata.

Counselling/seat allotment and admission:
a) A separate notification with details of counseling/seat allotment and admission will be published in www.wbjeeb.nic.in and www.wbjeeb. in shortly after publication of result.
b) Course-wise and institute wise availability of seats as to be provided by the Competent Authorities will also be published before counseling and allotment.

Eligibility criteria for appearing in the WBJEE-2021.

a) Citizenship: Applicant must be a citizen of India OR OCI (subject to approval of the Competent Authority). OCI candidates will be eligible for only Unreserved seats in All India quota.
b) Candidates must have passed OR must be appearing in 2021 in class 12 in (10+2) system only.

c) Age Restriction:
I. The lower age limit is 17 (seventeen) years as on 31.12.2021. A candidate should have been born on or before 31.12.2004. There is no upper age limit in appearing in the examination.
II. However, for admission to the degree level Marine Engineering Course the upper age limit is 25 Years as on 31.12.2021.

For admission to Engineering courses
a) Candidate must have passed the Qualifying Examination i.e., the ‘10+2’ examination with Physics and Mathematics along with any one of Chemistry / Biotechnology / Biology / Computer Science / Computer Application/Technical Vocational Subject as compulsory subjects with individual pass marks (in both theory and practical wherever applicable) in all the three subjects as stated above in regular class mode.
b) Must have obtained at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category e.g., SC, ST, OBC-A, OBC-B, PwD) in the above three subjects taken together.
c) Must have passed English in the ‘10+2’ examination with at least 30% marks.
d) The Board of the said Qualifying Examination must be recognized by the Central Government or State Government concerned. 3.2.2 For admission to Pharmacy courses
a) Candidate must have passed ‘10+2’ examination with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics / Biology as compulsory subjects with individual pass marks (in both theory and practical wherever applicable) in all the three subjects as stated above in regular class mode.
b) Must have obtained at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category e.g., SC, ST, OBC-A, OBC-B, PwD) in the above three subjects taken together.
c) Must have passed English in the 10+2 examination with at least 30% marks.
d) The Board of the said Qualifying Examination must be recognized by the Central Government or State Government concerned. However, as per the rules of the concerned Regulatory Body, the students possessing 10+2 qualification from non-formal and non-classrooms-based schooling such as National Institute of Open Schooling, open school systems of States etc. shall not be eligible for admission to B. Pharm. Course.

District-wise list of examination zones for WBJEE-2021

 

District	zones	zones Code
Alipurduar	Alipurduar	671
Bankura	Bankura	681
Bankura	Bishnupur	682
Birbhum	Bolpur	691
Birbhum	Suri	692
Cooch Behar	Cooch Behar	721
Dakshin Dinajpur	Balurghat	741
Darjeeling	Kurseong	731
Darjeeling	Siliguri	732
Hooghly	Arambagh	761
Hooghly	Bandel/Chinsurah	762
Hooghly	Serampore	763
Howrah	Salkia/Bally/Uttarpara	771
Howrah	Howrah Maidan/Shibpur	772
Howrah	Santragachi/Domjur	773
Howrah	Uluberia	774
Jalpaiguri	Jalpaiguri	781
Jhargram	Jhargram	791
Kalimpong	Kalimpong	801
Kolkata	Central Kolkata (Moulali/ Beliaghata/Narkel Danga/ Phool Bagan/ Kakurgachi/Park Circus)	811
Kolkata	North Kolkata (Shyam bazar/ Bagh Bazar/ Girish Park/ Burra Bazar/ College Street/Sealdah)	812
Kolkata	Salt Lake/New Town (Salt Lake/ Lake Town/New Town/Rajar Hat)	813
Kolkata	South Kolkata (Ballygaunge/ Minto Park/Bhowanipore/ Tollygaunge/Jadavpur)	814
Kolkata	West Kolkata (Joka/Behala/Alipore/ Chetla/Khidirpore/Budge Budge)	815
Malda	Malda	821
Murshidabad	Berhampur	851
Murshidabad	Jiaganj	852
Murshidabad	Raghunathganj	853
Nadia	Kalyani	861
Nadia	Krishnanagar	862
Nadia	Nabadwip	863
North 24 Parganas	Ashoknagar	881
North 24 Parganas	Barasat-(Airport/ Madhyamgram/Barasat)	882
North 24 Parganas	Barrackpur (Dum Dum Jn. To Barrackpur)	883
North 24 Parganas	Basirhat	884
Paschim Burdwan	Asansol	701
Paschim Burdwan	Durgapur	702
Paschim Medinipur	Garbeta	831
Paschim Medinipur	Kharagpur	832
Paschim Medinipur	Medinipur	833
Purba Burdwan	Burdwan	711
Purba Medinipur	Contai	841
Purba Medinipur	Haldia	842
Purba Medinipur	Tamluk	843
Purulia	Purulia	871
South 24 Parganas	Jainagar	892
South 24 Parganas	Garia/Sonarpur/Baruipur	893
Uttar Dinajpur	Raiganj	751
Other States Assam	Silchar	900
Other States Tripura	Agartala	910

More information details from official notification.

 

Information Bulletin download from the official website www.wbjeeb.nic.in. or here as PDF file.