- West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination
West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination or the WB-JEE is a state-government controlled centralised test for admission to many private and governmental medical and engineering institutions in
West Bengal . The test is taken after the 12th grade for admission tograduation (also known asBachelors ) courses. The exam can be taken by those who studied Pure Science stream in plus two level with the specific subjects tested in the examination, which arePhysics ,Chemistry ,Mathematics andBiology . There are actually two separate tests for medical colleges and engineering colleges, the difference being that the medical test has the Biology paper while the engineering test has the Mathematics paper.Every year approximately 3 lakh people take the examination and it is increasing. Students of both
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and the centralISC board take the test, though it is dominated by the former. It's a prestigious test, and few students of science in West Bengal don't take at least one of the two tests. When someone refers to the Joint or the JEE in West Bengal, he is more likely to refer to the WBJEE than theIIT-JEE , which is simply referred to as IIT and is a much more famous, prestigious and difficult test.From
2006 , the WBJEE is going to contain only objective-type MCQ (Multiple Choice Question) type questions. This announcement has attracted mixed reactions with some applauding it as a step towards the future while others have said that opting for MCQ when other tests were slowly phasing out MCQ because of studies showing MCQ failed to properly judge aptitude is a folly.Now beside MCQ pattern,the total marks has been divided in two segments,MCQ-80 marks and objective-20marksThe syllabus for WBJEE is intermediate between the elementary West Bengal
Higher Secondary Examination taken by theWest Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and the advanced IIT-JEE.External links
* [http://www.niponwave.com/2005/12/07/wbjee-2006-pattern-changed/ A very detailed blog post] : Please improve this article with information from this post.
* [http://www.careertalk.in CareerTalk]
* [http://www.winentrance.com/Exams_Date/West-Bengal-Joint-Entrance-Examination-JEM-2007.html West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2007]
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