PUBDET 2025: Exam Dates, Application Form, Eligibility, Syllabus, Results

Presidency University Bachelors Degree Entrance Test or PUBDET is conducted to shortlist aspirants for admission in BA and BSc (honours) programmes offered at Presidency University, Kolkata. Students who wish to study at this university can apply for a maximum of two subjects while filling out the PUBDET application form. Since Presidency University is quite popular in the state of West Bengal, about 40 to 50 thousand students apply for PUBDET each year. The university announces the number of available seats before PUBDET counselling and seat allotment procedures. It has been observed that the number of seats is significantly less when compared to the number of applicants. This implies that the exam gets increasingly more competitive each year. 

General information about the entrance exam is tabulated below.

Before filling the application form, aspirants must ensure that they fulfil the PUBDET eligibility requirements. Students who are found to not fulfil it will lose their candidature at any stage of the selection procedure. The discipline-wise eligibility criteria for PUBDET is detailed below. 

Nationality

• Citizen of India

Age Limit

• No upper or lower age limit

Academic Qualification

• Candidates should have cleared the higher secondary examination (XII) that is conducted by CBSE, West Bengal or an equivalent exam, not before 2020.
• The candidate must pass XII with at least five recognized subjects, including English language and excluding Environmental Science. The aggregate is to be calculated in the best four recognized subjects.

Apart from the above, in their qualifying exam in Class 12, candidates should have secured a minimum aggregate score as mentioned in the table below:

 Further, to secure admission in respective courses, candidates should also fulfil the academic criteria for admission as mentioned below:

The PUBDET 2025 application forms will be available online. It is predicted that the applications this year will open in February/ March. In order to fill out the forms, aspirants must visit WBJEEB's official website and register on it with their names and contact details. An application fee must be paid while filling out the form. The exam body also provides an application correction window, dates for which will be announced later. The application correction window usually opens after the last date of filling the PUBDET application form. Applicants can change information on their PUBDET application forms during this window. Aspirants must note that the form will only be available online on the exam body's official website. If a duplicate form is filled and submitted by the aspirants, their candidature will not be considered. 

PUBDET 2025 Application Fee

Candidates can pay the application fee for PUBDET through net banking/ debit card/ credit card or by cash using Allahabad Bank e-challan.

PUBDET Exam Centres 

Applicants are required to fill in their exam centre choices while filling out the PUBDET 2025 application form. If their preferred exam centres are at capacity, they will be allotted another based on proximity to their preference. Exam centres won't be changed once the admit cards are released. 

Given below are the exam centres from the previous year for reference:

Note: Any exam centre/ zone may be dropped if an adequate number of candidates are not available or under any unavoidable circumstance. If any such incidents arise, the candidate will be allocated to an alternative exam centre.

Read More:

• PUBDET Pattern
• PUBDET Syllabus

PUBDET 2025 admit card will be released at least a week before the exam dates. Applicants will be able to download their PUBDET admit card from the official website using their login credentials generated during initial registration. The admit card is an important document that the applicants must take printouts of. They're supposed to be carried to the exam centres. Those who fail to do so will not be allowed to take the exam. Applicants will find important information like their roll numbers, exam timings, reporting time, exam venue, exam day instructions, etc. printed on the PUBDET admit card.

Through PUBDET, aspirants can get into BA and BSc programmes in the following disciplines. 

The exam body will declare the PUBDET 2025 result a couple of weeks after the exam has been conducted. For 2024, the result was declared on July 31 while the exam was conducted on July 6 and 7. Similar to the aforementioned documents, examinees will have to log in using their login credentials to access the results. PUBDET results are published in the form of rank cards. Candidates must download and preserve these rank cards so that they can produce them during the counselling process. 

It must be noted that the exam body doesn't release a merit list or lists of any kind. The steps to check PUBDET 2025 rank cards are provided below.

Step 1: The candidate will have to visit the official website of WBJEEB in order to check their rank cards.

Step 2: On visiting the WBJEEB official site, candidates will have to click on the ‘PUBDET 2024 Rank Card’ tab, which will be available on the website.

Step 3: On clicking the link, the candidate will be directed to a new page, where the aspirant will have to enter their application number, password and date of birth.

Step 4: The candidate will then have to click on the sign-in button.

Step 5: The candidate can view their respective PUBDET rank cards. Results will be available to individual candidates which will contain all relevant ranks and total scores.

Step 6: Candidates are advised to download and take a print-out of their rank cards as they are required during the counselling process.

Once the results are declared, PUBDET counselling takes place. Candidates are required to have some documents verified during the counselling process. Based on the counselling process, students are allotted seats to their chosen programmes. 

Some important FAQs related to PUBDET are provided below.