WBJEE Exam Pattern 2024: Exam Mode, No. of Questions, Negative Marking

WBJEE Exam Pattern– It is expected that West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board will schedule the WBJEE exam in April 2024 tentatively. The applicant preparing for this entrance test must know the exam pattern in order to prepare better. The exam will be consisting of two papers i.e. Paper 1 and Paper 2.

The paper 1 will have the questions from Mathematics and in paper 2 the questions will be asked from Physics and chemistry subjects. However, the exact exam pattern will be released with the official notification by the board. For reference, candidates can check the exam pattern based on previous year exams through this article.

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WBJEE Exam Pattern Highlights

• The WBJEE Exam will be conducted offline i.e. OMR sheet based mode
• Candidates who appeared in both Paper-I and Paper-II and are awarded General Merit rank (GMR) will be eligible for admission in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture/ Pharmacy Courses in all institutes.
• Candidates who appeared in Paper-II only and are awarded Pharmacy merit Rank (PMR) will be only eligible for admission in Pharmacy Courses (excluding Jadavpur University).
• All the questions will be asked in English language only.
• Based on the marking scheme, the questions will be divided into three categories i.e. category 1, category 2 and category 3.
• The duration of the exam will be 4 Hours ( 2 hours for each paper)
• The maximum marks will be 200.
• Only Multiple Choice objective type of questions will be asked.

WBJEE Exam Pattern in Detail

A total of 155 questions will be asked in the exam and divided into three categories. All questions will be multiple-choice questions (MCQs).

Mode of Answering in the Exam

Candidates need to answer questions on specially designed optical machine-readable response (OMR) sheet, which are to be evaluated by Optical Mark Recognition method. Hence, you must follow a correct process of marking.

You’ll find four alternative answers for each question. Candidates need to provide answer to the questions simply by darkening the appropriate circle completely with black/blue ball point pen.

If you follow any other approach of marking like filling with pencil, filling the bubble incompletely, tick mark, cross mark, circular mark, dot mark, erasing, over writing, scratching, marking outside the bubble, white ink etc will be considered a wrong response.

You can’t edit/change/erase/modify response marking and hence you need to ensure before you start answering questions.

Scoring Methodology

Category I

• Only one option is correct.
• 1 mark will be awarded for every correct response.
• -1/4 marks deducted for every incorrect response.
• Not attempted question will count zero marks.

Category II

• Only one option is correct.
• 2 mark will be awarded for every correct response.
• -1/2 marks deducted for every incorrect response.
• Not attempted question will count zero marks.

Category III

• One or more than one option can be correct.
• 2 mark will be awarded for every correct response.
• For partially correct response, marks awarded = 2 x (no. of correct options marked ÷total no. of correct options).
• No negative marking

Negative Marking

• There will be a negative marking of ¼ marks for the questions from category 1.
• ½ marks will be deducted for a wrong answer in case of category-2 questions.
• As there will be more than one correct option in Category -3 question, there will be no negative marking.

If you want to really score well in the exam then you must prepare according to its prescribed syllabus. Not following the syllabus will never allow you to perform well in the examination.

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