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JENPAS-UG 2026 at a glance

The 115-mark total comes from a split marking scheme rather than a flat one-mark paper: Physics, Chemistry and Biology each carry fifteen one-mark questions plus five two-mark questions, while Basic English and Health Aptitude carry twenty one-mark questions each. One-mark questions attract a quarter-mark penalty for a wrong answer; the two-mark questions carry no negative marking. The paper is offered in English and Bengali.

Dates and windows

Every round date above is as reported by FreeJobAlert and Collegedunia from the board's schedule notice; the existence of the Round 3 result and of an extension schedule is visible on the WBJEEB page itself. Because the board has extended the closing stage, the final reporting deadline in force today is the one in the extension notice rather than 30 August.

What this means for your preparation

The mistake that costs the most JENPAS-UG seats is treating the rank card as the finish line. Qualifying is comparatively easy; the reported qualifying bar sits near the fiftieth percentile for General and EWS candidates and near the fortieth for SC, ST and OBC. What decides the outcome is whether a candidate registers separately for e-counselling, locks a long enough choice list, and reports within the narrow window after each allotment.

The paper is not a flat scoring sheet

Because 100 questions carry 115 marks, the fifteen two-mark questions spread five each across Physics, Chemistry and Biology are worth thirty marks on their own, and they carry no negative marking. The eighty-five one-mark questions do carry a quarter-mark penalty. That asymmetry rewards a specific discipline: attempt every two-mark question, since a blind guess there has no downside, and be selective on the one-mark science questions where four wrong answers wipe out a correct one. Basic English and Health Aptitude contribute forty marks between them with no two-mark component, which makes them the cheapest marks in the paper and the ones science-focused candidates most often under-prepare.

Ninety minutes for one hundred questions

The clock, not the difficulty, is the binding constraint. Ninety minutes across a hundred questions leaves roughly fifty-four seconds each, and the Physics and Chemistry two-markers will absorb more than that. The workable sequence is to clear Basic English and Health Aptitude first, since those forty marks are largely recall and comprehension and can be done at well under the average pace, then Biology, then the calculation-heavy Physics and Chemistry blocks. Candidates who begin with Physics routinely lose the twenty English marks to the bell. Practise on OMR sheets rather than on screen, because the 2026 paper remained OMR-based and bubbling errors are a real source of lost marks.

Counselling is a second registration, not an extension

Clearing the exam does not enrol a candidate in counselling. WBJEEB required a fresh registration on the counselling portal, document upload, payment of the counselling fee reported at INR 500, and choice filling with no cap on the number of preferences, followed by locking. Choices could not be changed once locked. In the 2026 cycle each round gave between two and five days for registration and choice filling and only three to five days between allotment and the close of fee payment and reporting. Missing the reporting window forfeits the allotted seat even where the rank would comfortably have held it in the next round.

Read the seat matrix by course, not by college

The 13,265 seats reported for 2026 are spread across more than 140 institutes but are very unevenly distributed by course. B.Sc Nursing, the single INC-regulated programme, draws the bulk of the demand, while the eight NCAHP-regulated allied health courses and the three university-regulated programmes such as B.Sc in Medical Microbiology and Bachelor of Hospital Administration clear at much lower ranks. A candidate whose rank will not reach nursing in a government institute is usually better served by filling allied health choices in strong institutions than by filling only nursing seats and going unallotted through all three rounds.

What to do while the 2027 cycle is unannounced

No 2027 notification had been posted on either WBJEEB domain when this page was checked, so any circulating 2027 calendar is unverified. The stable facts a repeater can work from are structural rather than calendrical: the eligibility floor of 45 per cent in Physics, Chemistry and Biology for General candidates and 40 per cent for reserved categories, the minimum age of seventeen reckoned on 31 December of the admission year, compulsory English at 10+2, and the domicile requirement that governs state-quota seats. Keep the rank card and the 2026 documents, because the board warns that rank cards cannot be downloaded once counselling closes.

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