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  • WBJEE result out; 99.5 per cent of candidates get ranks

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: An estimated 99.5 per cent of the 65,170 candidates, both from the state and outside, got ranks in this year’s West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE), the result of which was declared on Friday.

    Candidates who cleared the exam will be able to apply for undergraduate courses in engineering, architecture and pharmacy in institutes of the state.

    WBJEE Board Chairman Malayendu Saha said that the counselling for ranked candidates, numbering 64,850, will begin from August 13 and end on September 11 for admission to 115 institutes, either state-run or private.

    He said that 74 per cent of the successful candidates are boys and 26 per cent girls.

    Altogether 92,695 candidates had registered for the WBJEE and 71 per cent of them (65,170) appeared for the test, the first offline public exam in the state this year, Saha told a press meet here.

    He said that 23 per cent of the successful candidates were from outside West Bengal.

    While Panchajanya Dey of Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home High School got the first rank, Soumyajit Dutta of Bankura Zilla School secured the second position.

    Bratin Mondal of Santipur Municipal High School came third in the exam, Saha said.

    The schools from where the top three students came are under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE).

    Saha said that 34,217 successful WBJEE candidates belonged to the WBCHSE while the rest belonged to other boards.

    The exams were held offline in 274 centres across the state on July 17.

  • West Bengal JEE held in offline mode amid coronavirus scare

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: A total of 92,695 candidates sat for the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) at 274 centres on Saturday, as the first offline public examination held in the state this year amid the pandemic situation went off smoothly.

    An official of the West Bengal JEE Board said that the candidates wrote Mathematics and Physics-Chemistry papers in two halves, with strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols such as wearing masks and maintaining a five-feet distance between them.

    “Two candidates were seated on long benches with a five-feet distance between them, and one on the shorter ones. The number of examinees in each room did not exceed 28,” he said.

    The Mathematics paper in the first half and the Physics-Chemistry paper in the second were of two hours each and the exams passed off smoothly, the official said.

    WBJEE is conducted to shortlist candidates aspiring to study in engineering colleges in the state.

    Examinees were allowed to board staff-special trains if they carried admit cards with them.

    However, many of them claimed that the number of public transport vehicles at Sealdah, Howrah and Kolkata terminal railway stations were fewer, and they had to shell out a huge amount of money to reach the examination venues on time.

    A social organisation pressed into service a few buses, hired from private operators, to ferry candidates for free in Kolkata and Howrah.

    The COVID positivity rate in West Bengal has declined to 1.54 per cent, as 14,191 patients of the 15.13-lakh tally are undergoing treatment, while 17,944 people have succumbed to the infection, and 14.81 lakh have recovered from the disease thus far.