JEPBN 2023 Syllabus

JEPBN-2023 Information Bulletin Page: 6/21 1.0 Introduction JEPBN 2023 The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) was established in 1962 by the Government of West Bengal in exercise of the powers conferred under article 162 of the Constitution of India in pursuant to No. 828-Edn(T), dated 02.03.1962. Subsequently in 2014, the Government of West Bengal enacted the West Bengal Act XIV of 2014 to form The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (hereinafter called ‘Board’) and empowered it to conduct Common Entrance Examinations for selection of candidates for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate Professional, Vocational and General Degree Courses in the State of West Bengal and to conduct on-line counselling process or otherwise adopting a single- window approach. WBJEEB has been instrumental in the admission process based on online application and allotment through e-Counselling since 2012. It advocates fairness and transparency, ensures no-error, and adopts state-of-the-art technology. 2.0 The Examination: WBJEEB will conduct OMR based Common Entrance Test (JEPBN-2023) for admission in the academic session 2023-24 in Post Basic Nursing (PBN) course in Colleges/ Institutes in the State of West Bengal. 2.1 Schedule of JEPBN-2023 Date of Time schedule Examination 01.07.2023 (Saturday) 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Tentative and may be changed in extra ordinary circumstances) The examination will be held only once and there shall be no further examination under any circumstances for those who are unable to appear on the above date and time. 2.2 Pattern of Question Papers The paper will contain 100 questions. All questions will be of Multiple- Choice Question (MCQ) type, with four answer options each, of which only one option is correct. Time for the paper is 90 minutes. The questions will be in English language only. 2.3 Syllabus: The paper will be based on GNM syllabus and will have two parts as follows. The topics and number of questions of the two parts are given below. a) Part-A: Anatomy, Physiology, Sociology, Psychology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Pathology – 40 Q

JEPBN-2023 Information Bulletin Page: 7/21 b) Part-B: Foundation of Nursing, Medical Surgical Nursing, Paediatric Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Obstetrical Nursing, Community Health Nursing – 60 Q 2.4 Scoring Methodology a) Correct response will yield 1 (one) mark for each question. b) Incorrect response will yield -1/4 (25% negative) marks for each question. c) For any combination of more than one option, even if it contains the correct option, the said answer will be treated as incorrect and will yield -¼ (negative 25%) marks. d) Zero mark will be awarded for not attempting any question. 2.5 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) Candidates will indicate response to the questions by darkening the appropriate circle/bubble completely with blue/black ink ball point pen. c) 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, use of 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. d) Response marking cannot be edited/changed/erased/modified. 2.6 Ranking Methodology and publication of Merit Lists a) WBJEEB will prepare merit ranks based on the candidates’ score in the Common 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 to ensure confidentiality to each individual candidate. b) The rank shall be in the name and style of ‘GMR’ (General Merit Rank). c) Ranking shall be done in the descending order of total marks scored. In case of ties, tie-breaking rules as given in section 2.7 shall be applicable. 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, etc., as applicable. e) Sequencing order for counselling/allotment of seat/admission will be based on GMR only (not on category ranks). Category ranks are for information only to candidates of respective category. f) Category ranks are generated based on the category information given by the candidates during online application, but documents are verified by the allotted Institutes during counselling/admission. Hence candidate’s certificates/ documents/ proofs must be valid as on the date of verification. If any candidate’s claim is found invalid during verification, his/her category rank will be cancelled, and the candidate will be considered thereafter in general category in next round, if any. Category ranks of other candidates will not be revised.