PUMDET Counselling 2025: Dates, Seat Allotment, Fees, Seat Matrix & Procedure

Candidates can check the tie–breaking methodology mentioned below in the PUMDET exam.

• In case of tie, the candidate obtaining less negative score will have better rank.
• If tie exists still thereafter, all such candidates will be awarded the same rank and will be considered for counselling and admission with bunching effect.

Candidates can check the level of the PUMDET exam below.

WBJEEB prepares merit ranks based on the candidates’ score in the entrance test. Individual candidates will be able to view and download his/her Rank Card, which will contain score and rank. WBJEEB does not publish any general ranks/score list to ensure confidentiality to each individual candidate.
The rank shall be in the name and style of ‘GMR’ (General Merit Rank).
Ranking shall be done in the descending order of marks scored in the entrance test.
However, there may be ties and the tie-breaking rule mentioned in section 2.8 below shall be applicable for determining the merit rank.
Separate reserved category merit position will also be indicated for respective category of students e.g. SC Rank, ST Rank, OBC-A Rank, OBC-B Rank, PwD/EWS Rank as applicable.
Counselling/allotment of seat/provisional admission will be done based on GMR only (not on category ranks). Category ranks are only for information to candidates.
Category ranks are generated based on information given by the candidates during online application. If during verification, any candidate’s claim is found invalid, his/her category rank will be cancelled and the candidate will be considered in General category only with his/her GMR. Category ranks of other candidates will not be revised.

After the results of PUMDET is declared online on the official website of WBJEEB exam page, PUMDET counselling will take place. WBJEEB will release the merit list of candidates who have qualified for the counselling. After the PUMDET result, the counselling and admission process is conducted on the basis of merit/rank card and scores. The verification of the rank list, documents will be done during the time of counselling. If an applicant is found ineligible, the candidature will be cancelled despite holding a rank card.  

Counselling/seat allotment and provisional admission includes:

• A separate notification with details of counseling/seat allotment and admission procedure will be published in Board’s web site shortly after publication of result.
• Course-wise availability of seats provided by the Presidency University will also be published before counselling and allotment.

Reservation of Seats for SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/PwD category of students
The reservation policies of West Bengal State Higher Education Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2013 and West Bengal State Higher Education Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Rules, 2014 will be followed for admission in reserved seats for SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/PwD.
However, availability of such reserve category seats shall be restricted to students domiciled in West Bengal only.
Candidates claiming such seats must submit relevant Certificate issued from either of the competent Authorities as enlisted below.
The certificate is to be produced during counselling, admission etc. If the certificate is then found to be invalid, the candidate will lose the opportunity of admission under reserve category and will be treated as General category.

Requirements in terms of Residential/Domicile Criteria are as follows:
There is no Residential/Domicile requirement to appear in the examination.
However, the State (West Bengal) Residential/Domicile requirement is applicable for admission in any reserved category of seats.
The candidate needs to download the required proforma as per the detail given in section 6.1 below and keep the certificate ready to be produced during counselling, admission etc.
 If the certificate is then found to be invalid, the candidate will lose the opportunity of admission under reserve category.

Candidates can check the following steps to download the PUMDET result:

The candidate will have to visit the official website of WBJEEB in order to check their ranks cards.

On visiting the WBJEEB official site, candidates will have to click on ‘PUMDET 2023 Rank Card’ tab, which will be available on the website.

On clicking the link, the candidate will be directed to a new page, where the aspirant will have to fill up the details in order to avail the rank card. Candidates will have to enter their application number, password and date of birth.

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

The candidate can view their respective PUMDET rank cards. Results will be available to individual candidates which will contain all relevant ranks and total score.

Candidates are advised to download and take a print-out of their ranks cards as it will be required during the counselling process.

Candidates can check the PUMDET scoring methodology here.
All questions will have four answer options.
Only one option is correct.
Correct response will yield 2 (two) marks.
Incorrect response will yield -1/2 (25% negative) marks.
For any combination of response with more than one option, even if it contains the correct option, the answer will be treated as incorrect and will yield -1/2 (25% negative) marks.
Zero mark will be awarded for not attempting any question.

Candidates can check the tie–breaking methodology mentioned below in the PUMDET exam.

• In case of tie, the candidate obtaining less negative score will have better rank.
• If tie exists still thereafter, all such candidates will be awarded the same rank and will be considered for counselling and admission with bunching effect.

Below are the documents needed for PUMDET counselling.