Eligibility Criteria

Students who have passed the Higher Secondary Examination (10+2) conducted by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (W.B.C.H.S.E.) after a period of 12 years study or any other equivalent (10+2) pattern of examination conducted by the I.S.C. or C.B.S.E. or any other Board recognized as equivalent by the Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, provided the student has passed in at least four subjects with English as Compulsory Subject.

For all laboratory-based subjects, the student must have passed in that subject at 10+2 level, if that subject exists in the HS subjects list, or equivalent subject if it does not exist in the HS list of subjects, as per existing admission guidelines.

A student will be allowed to take admission in the Major Course if he/she/transgender has passed in at least four (04) subjects with English as compulsory subject in the Higher Secondary [10+2] Examination held by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education or any other Examination which is recognized by the University as equivalent thereto.

Admission will be on merit and availability of seats, provided that for SC/ST Candidates, the minimum marks for eligibility will be as per rules of the State Government.

A candidate will be allowed to take up any Major Subject in 4-year UG Programme, if he/she/transgender has passed in the corresponding subject (s) at the Higher Secondary Examination (10+2) recognized as equivalent by the University.

However:

A candidate will be allowed to take up Sociology, Education, Physical Education, BBA or BBM if he/she/transgender has passed in the previous qualifying examination of any stream.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Commerce. if he/she/transgender has studied Science subjects along with Mathematics in the previous qualifying exams.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Physics Subject if he/she/transgender has passed in Mathematics and Chemistry along with Physics and other subject as prescribed at the qualifying examination.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Chemistry Subject if he/she/transgender has passed in Mathematics and Physics along with Chemistry and other subject as prescribed at the qualifying examination.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Botany/Zoology Subject if he/she/transgender has passed in Biology at the qualifying examination.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Physiology subject if he/she/transgender has passed in Biological Science and Chemistry at the qualifying examination.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Computer Science Subject if he/she/ transgender has passed in Mathematics at the qualifying examination.
A candidate will be allowed to take up Economics as if he/she/transgender has passed in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics or Business Economics including Business Mathematics, and other subjects as prescribed at the qualifying examination.
No student other than those of Science stream and Economics/Geography of Arts stream will be allowed to take Science subjects as Minor Subjects.
A candidate pursuing Major in a subject will not be allowed to take up the same subject as Minor.
A candidate pursuing Major in a Language subject will be allowed to take another Language subject as a Minor Subject.
While taking Major & Minor subjects, availability of the said subjects in the concerned Colleges will be taken into cognizance.

Merit Calculation

Admission to all Course will be based stricly on merit. Merit shall be calculated as per the following formula.

Merit= (2S+T)/6

T= Aggregate = marks obtained in English + marks obtained in the subject opted for Major + best marks of other two subjects

[Excluding the subject opted for Major and English].

S= marks obtained in the subject opted for Major.

If the candidate does not have the specific subject opted for Major in his / her previous Course, the procedure for Merit Calculation will be as follows,

Merit =T1/4
T1=marks obtained in English+ best of other three subjects