WBJEE result 2016 declared on wbjeeb.nic.in, results.westbengaleducation.net: Yashvardhan Didwania tops the exam, boys outshine girls

WBJEE result 2016: West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board engineering result declared on Sunday at 4 pm on its official websites wbjeeb.nic.in and results.westbengaleducation.net. Yashvardhan Didwania from Delhi Public School Rajarhat clinched the first position followed by Abhishek Datta and Arpan Konar. Piyali Manna, a student of BGKV in Salt Lake, ranked 91 — the first among girl students. Five students from schools in Kolkata made it to the engineering merit list. The merit list was dominated by students from CBSE and ISC boards. The WBJEE 2016 was conducted on May 17th for engineering courses.

Among the first 10,000 students in the merit list of WBJEE result 2016; 3,151 were from Kolkata, 2,205 from North-24 Parganas, 1,670 from Howrah, 752 from Bardhaman and 504 from South-24 Parganas. While 35 per cent of SC students from Jalpaiguri district have made it, six per cent of ST examinees found place in the merit list from Darjeeling and Purulia districts. From June 15, WBJEE will start e-counselling sessions for students, who would fill 36,263 seats in 102 engineering and 1,085 seats in 13 pharmacy colleges across the state. E-counselling and admission process will be concluded on July 19.

Steps to check WBJEE result 2016:
STEP 1: Log on to the official website website wbjeeb.nic.in or results.westbengaleducation.net
STEP 2: Go to the ‘WBJEE 2016 Engineering Results’ section
STEP 3: Enter your details specified on the hall ticket such as roll number, date of birth
STEP 4: Click on ‘Submit’ and your WBJEE result 2016 will be displayed
STEP 5: You can save a copy of WBJEE result 2016 or take a print out for future reference

WBJEE is conducted as an eligibility entrance examination for admission to various undergraduate level courses (BE/ B.Tech/ B.Arch/ B.Pharm and MBBS/ BDS). Around 44,258 candidates had registered to take the WBJEE 2016 in engineering and medical both, while 31,604 had applied for medical only. WBJEE 2016 was conducted in three shifts only allowing engineering aspirants to sit this time. Physics & Chemistry paper consisted of 80 questions with maximum 100 marks with a given time duration of 2 hours. Provided the same time duration, 75 questions were asked in Mathematics paper with 100 obtainable marks.

This year a lot of medical students could not appear for the WBJEE 2016 as Supreme Court had decided to replace state-level medical entrance examination with NEET. But now the WBJEE 2016 for medical students will be conducted on July 20 and the NEET II will be held on July 24.