With the Class XII board exams getting over, students are now busy with their competitive entrance exams preparation. IIT JEE was held on Sunday, April 8, 2012 and WBJEE 2012 is scheduled for April 15, 2012. West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) is conducted by West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations for taking admission into undergraduate courses in Engineering/Technology/Architecture/Medical/Dental and Pharmacy in universities/colleges in West Bengal. It was started in the year 1962 with an objective to conduct a common entrance exam for students to take admission into the colleges in West Bengal state. With only few days left in hand students must have started their revision. Let us have a look at the paper pattern of WBJEE given below -

WBJEE Paper pattern:

The question paper is divided into 2 sections. The first section consists of multiple choice type questions (80% marks) and second section is of short answer type questions (20% marks).Each question is provided with 4 options including 1 correct answer. Incorrect answer fetches a deduction of 33.33% mark.

Changes in WBJEE JEM 2012 Entrance Test Question Paper Pattern:

All the questions in each paper will be of MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions) type and must be answered in the OMR sheet provided. No short descriptive type questions will be therelike last year.

For  Mathematics and  Biological Sciences papers -  total number of  questions will be 80 (eighty) in each  paper, out of which questions bearing sl. no. 1 to 60  will carry 1 (one) mark each and questions bearing sl. no. 61 to 80  will carry  2 (two) marks each.

 Physics and Chemistry combined paper will consist of  80 (eighty) no. of questions out of which questions bearing sl. no. 1 to 40 will be from the subject Physics and questions bearing sl. no. 41 to 80 will be from the subject Chemistry. Questions bearing sl. no.1 to 30 and sl. no. 41 to 70 will carry 1 (one) mark each, whereas questions bearing sl. no. 31 to 40 and 71 to 80 will carry 2 (two) marks each.

There will be 4 (four) answering options for each question amongst which only one would be correct. More than one answer/response indicated against one question will be treated as wrong/incorrect answer/ response.

For each incorrect answer/response, 33.33% of mark(s) allotted to the corresponding question will be deducted from the total marks secured by the candidate.

Students should keep these changes in mind while going for the examination to avoid mistakes. Lastly, students are advised to be patient and confident about their preparation.

Best of Luck!

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