West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 10 examination (or secondary school level examination) of West Bengal, India. The examination for the 10th standard is called the Madhyamik Pariksha or secondary examination. The Madhyamik examination is conducted annually and simultaneously all over the state of West Bengal and also in affiliates of the board located outside West Bengal, elsewhere in India. More than 10,50,000 examinees take the exam each year.

There are eight subject in this board.

  1. 1st Language: Bengali/English/Gujarati/Hindi/Modern Tibetian/Nepali/Oriya/Gurmukhi (Punjabi)/Tamil/Telugu/Urdu/Santali 1st Paper
  2. 1st Language: Bengali/English/Gujarati/Hindi/Modern Tibetian/Nepali/Oriya/Gurmukhi (Punjabi)/Tamil/Telugu/Urdu/Santali 2nd Paper
  3. 2nd Language: English(Bengali or Nepali if English is 1st Language)
  4. Mathematics
  5. History
  6. Geography
  7. Life Science
  8. Physical Science
  9. Additional Subject

After this examination, every students are allowed for Higher Secondary Examination. The total number of marks is 800. WBBSE is considered to be a very hard board than CBSE, ICSE and other State Boards.

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