WBJEE syllabus

West Bengal's OMR entrance test for undergraduate engineering, technology, pharmacy and architecture: Mathematics for two hours, then Physics and Chemistry for two hours, with three marking categories.

Mathematics

75 questions: 50 Category-1, 15 Category-2, 10 Category-3; 100 marks · 120 minutes, Paper I, its own sitting

Category-1: one correct option, +1 or −1/4. Category-2: one correct option, +2 or −1/2. Category-3: one or more correct options, +2 if every correct option and no incorrect option is marked, proportional credit if only some correct options are marked, and 0 if any incorrect option is marked.

  • Algebra, complex numbers, binomial theorem and matrices
  • Sets, probability and statistics
  • Trigonometry
  • Coordinate geometry in two and three dimensions
  • Differential and integral calculus and differential equations
  • Vectors

Physics

40 questions: 30 Category-1, 5 Category-2, 5 Category-3; 50 marks · Shares the 120 minutes of Paper II with Chemistry

The same three categories as Mathematics, with 30, 5 and 5 questions.

  • Units, motion, laws of motion, work and rotation
  • Gravitation, fluids, heat and thermodynamics
  • Oscillations and waves
  • Electrostatics, current, magnetism and electromagnetic induction
  • Optics, atoms, nuclei and semiconductors

Chemistry

40 questions: 30 Category-1, 5 Category-2, 5 Category-3; 50 marks · Shares the 120 minutes of Paper II with Physics

The same three categories as Mathematics, with 30, 5 and 5 questions.

  • Atomic structure, periodicity and chemical bonding
  • States of matter, thermodynamics, equilibrium and solutions
  • Kinetics, redox and electrochemistry
  • Organic reactions, hydrocarbons and functional groups
  • Biomolecules and coordination compounds