PUBDET 2023 Syllabus

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2.2 Choice of Papers & Syllabus

a) Any candidate can apply for a maximum of 3 (three) papers given
below from the following table:

Paper For Admission Syllabus Version
into of question paper

I Geography Geography (100 marks) English and Bengali

II English English (100 marks) English

III Economics Mathematics and English English and Bengali
Statistics (80+20 = 100 marks)*
Mathematics

IV Political Science Political Science (100 marks) English and Bengali

V Bengali Bengali (100 marks) Bengali

VI Hindi Hindi (100 marks) Hindi

VII Chemistry Mathematics, Physics and English and Bengali
Physics Chemistry (40+30+30 =100
Geology marks)*

VIII History History (100 marks) English and Bengali

IX Life Sciences Biology (100 marks) English and Bengali

X Philosophy/ Basic English, Logical English
Sociology/ reasoning and General
Performing Arts Knowledge (50+30+20 = 100
marks)*

*Distribution of marks are given within parenthesis.

b) Applicants must consult the schedule of test/time table given in
section 2.3 before choosing the paper(s).

c) Syllabus of Test: The tests will be based on the syllabi of 11th and 12th
standard of recognised boards/councils.

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2.3 Schedule of PUBDET-2023

Date Paper Schedule
20.05.23 (Paper – I) 10:00 am – 11:30 am
(Saturday) (Paper - II) 12:30 pm – 02:00 pm
(Paper - III) (Paper - IV) 03:00 pm – 04:30 pm
21.05.23 (Paper - V) (Paper - VI) 10:00 am – 11:30 am
(Sunday)
(Paper - VII) (Paper - VIII) 12:30 pm – 02:00 pm
(Paper - IX) (Paper - X) 03:00 pm – 04:30 pm

No further Test shall be conducted under any circumstances for those who are
unable to appear on the date and time of PUBDET-2023 mentioned above.
2.4 Pattern of Question Papers
In every paper, all questions will be of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
type, with four answer options. There will be 50 (fifty) questions in each paper
with full marks 100 and the duration of test will be 90 minutes.
2.5 Mode of answering in the examination
 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.
 Candidates will indicate response to the questions by darkening the
appropriate circle/bubble completely with blue/black ink ball
point pen.
 Any other kind of marking e.g., filling the circle/bubble incompletely,
filling with pencil, cross mark, tick mark, dot mark, circular mark, over
writing, scratching, erasing, white ink, marking outside the
circle/bubble etc. may lead to wrong/partial/ambiguous reading of the
response. WBJEEB will be, in no way, responsible for such
eventuality and this may lead to cancellation of OMR sheet.

 Response marking cannot be edited/changed/erased/modified. Hence it
is advised that candidate should be sure about the answer before
marking and should not put any stray mark on which he/she does not
want to attempt.
2.6 Scoring Methodology
a) All questions will have four answer options.
b) Only one option is correct.
c) Correct response will yield 2 (two) marks.
d) Incorrect response will yield -1/2 (25% negative) marks.

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e) 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
f) No response will yield zero mark.
2.7 Ranking Methodology and Rank Cards

WBJEEB will prepare merit ranks based on the candidates’ score in the
entrance tests. Individual candidates will be able to view and download
his/her Rank Card, which will contain score and rank. WBJEEB does not
publish any general rank/score list.

a) The rank shall be in the name and style of ‘GMR’ (General Merit Rank).
b) Ranking shall be done in the descending order of marks scored in the
entrance test.
c) However, there may be ties and the tie-breaking rule given in section
2.8 below shall be applicable for determining the merit rank.
d) 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 as applicable.
e) Counselling/allotment of seat/admission will be done based on
GMR only (not on category ranks). Category ranks are only for
information to candidates.
f) Category ranks are generated based on 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 only with
his/her GMR. Category ranks of other candidates will not be revised.

2.8 Tie–breaking Methodology

a) In case of tie, the candidate obtaining less negative score will have higher
rank and will get higher position in merit list.

b) If tie exists still thereafter, all such candidates will be awarded the same
rank and will be considered for counselling and admission with bunching
effect.

2.9 Rules of the Test (PUBDET-2023): Rules to be followed during the test is
given in APPENDIX-4