West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations (WBJEE) - Eligibility criteria and education qualification

  • Citizenship: Applicant must be a citizen of India OR OCI (subject to approval of the Competent Authority). OCI candidates will be eligible for only Unreserved seats in All India quota.
  • Candidates must have passed OR must be appearing in 2022 in class 12 in (10+2) system only.
Age Restriction:
  • The lower age limit is 17 (seventeen) years as on 31.12.2022. A candidate should have been born on or before 31.12.2005. There is no upper age limit
    in appearing in the examination.
  • However, for admission to the degree level Marine Engineering Course the
    upper age limit is 25 Years as on 31.12.2022.
Academic criteria for admission
  • The following sections describes the criteria as per latest communications
    received from the concerned Authorities.
  • Candidates must make themselves aware of the latest applicable rules of different Universities, Institutions, Government Departments, Regulatory Bodies at the time of admission. Board will not be responsible by any way, if any candidate fails to aware himself/herself regularly on any updated information.
  • The Board would notify revisions, corrections, modifications, addendum, corrigendum if any received from concerned Authorities till the start of counselling.
General criteria for admission into Engineering/Technology courses:
  • Candidate must have passed the Qualifying Examination i.e., the ‘10+2’ examination with Physics and Mathematics along with any one of Chemistry / Biotechnology / Biology / Computer Science / Computer Application/Technical Vocational Subject as compulsory subjects with individual pass marks (in both theory and practical wherever applicable) in all the three subjects as stated above in regular class mode.
  • Must have obtained at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category e.g., SC, ST, OBC-A, OBC-B, PWD) in the above three subjects taken together.
2022