JENPAS UG Eligibility by Course: Age, Gender, Marks and Domicile

JENPAS(UG) has two layers of eligibility, and most confusion online comes from mixing them. One set of rules decides who may sit the exam; a second, course-by-course set decides who may be admitted to B.Sc Nursing, BPT, BMLS, BHA and the rest. The 45%/40% aggregate and the INC percentile bar are nursing rules, not general ones. This guide separates the layers, using the JENPAS(UG)-2026 bulletin — the latest official version — and includes a checker for your own case.

Domicile, in clause 6.1, means one of two things: you have lived in West Bengal continuously for at least 10 years as on 31.12.2025, or a parent is a permanent resident with a permanent address in the state. The first needs proforma A1 or A2; the second needs proforma B or any two of the parent's Voter ID, Aadhaar, passport or ration card. Clause 6.0 then repeats that domicile is required "for admission in any category of seat in any course in any institute" — it is not only for reserved or state-quota seats.

The 2026 bulletin prints the academic criteria as a table whose columns are misaligned in the PDF. This is our reading of it; if your case is borderline, confirm with WBJEEB.

The practical upshot: BHA is the only course open to Arts and Commerce students; optometry accepts Mathematics in place of Biology; and the eight allied courses in the third row have no aggregate cut-off at all — a pass in the three sciences is enough to be admitted if your rank reaches a seat.

After the result, B.Sc Nursing admission also needs a minimum percentile in the entrance test "as per the INC Guideline". The bulletin prints it as a note under the ranking rules:

This applies to nursing only. The Board does not publish how many candidates were ranked, so a rank cannot be converted into a percentile from public data; nursing seats in 2026 went as deep as rank 25,385, and the percentile rule is checked against your score at admission. The counselling notification repeats only the 45%/40% Class 12 rule for nursing.

The bulletin does not say on what date the upper limit is measured. Our checker uses 31.12.2026 (the minimum-age date) and says so; if you are within a few months of 35 or 40, ask the Board before you apply.

In the 2026 seat matrix, nursing had 8,260 seats for women and 600 for men, the men's seats all in 10 private colleges. There were 4,405 seats open to both — every allied and BHA seat. If you are a male candidate aiming at nursing, your realistic set is those ten colleges; the seat-matrix guide has a filter for them.

The two official documents disagree, and the later one governed counselling. The 2026 bulletin reserves seats for OBC-Category-A (More Backward) and OBC-Category-B (Backward) under the West Bengal notifications of May and June 2025, and it promised separate OBC-A and OBC-B category ranks. On 16.06.2026 — nine days after the exam — notice JEEB/Reg-67/2026 opened a portal (16–19.06.2026) for candidates to declare their OBC class "as appearing in the list notified vide Gazette Notification No. 945-BCW/MR-23/2026 dated 18.05.2026", to avail "7% reservation for OBC" — one OBC class, not two. Non-creamy-layer status follows the Backward Classes Welfare memo No. 1037(64)/Secy-BCW/MR-33/2025(Pt.V).

We print the conflict rather than resolve it: the bulletin was never corrected, the counselling portal followed the June notice, and the memo's date is given two ways. For 2027, read the new bulletin's reservation clause and the OBC certificate format it asks for before you apply. The 2026 bulletin asked for an OBC non-creamy-layer certificate issued on or after 01.04.2026.

Screenshots and phone photos of documents are not accepted — the bulletin says so in its general rules. And a rank does not guarantee a seat: if a document fails verification, the Board corrects your information, which can move you to the general category or make you ineligible for some courses.