West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board

AQ - 13/1, Sector - V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700091

Help Desk: 1800-1023-781, 1800-3450-050 (Toll Free)

Dated, 2nd November 2021

Notice – Pattern of Question Paper of ANM & GNM-2022

1 Pattern of Question Papers.

A. Paper-1 will have the following structure.
Category-1 Category-2 Total
Number of Total
Full Marks of Full Marks 0f Marks
Questions
each Q = 1 each Q = 2
No. of Questions No. of Questions
Life Science 30 10 40 50
Physical Science 15 5 20 25
English 15 - 15 15
Mathematics 10 - 10 10
General Knowledge 10 - 10 10
Logical reasoning 5 - 5 5
Total 100 115

B. All questions will be of Multiple- Choice Question (MCQ) type, with four answer
options. Time for the paper is 1½ hours. The questions will be in both English and
Bengali language.
2 Syllabus: Life Science, Physical Science, Mathematics will be based on 10th standard syllabi
of the recognised Board/Councils in India and English, General Knowledge, Logical
Reasoning will be equivalent to 12th standard curriculum.
3 Scoring Methodology
a) Category 1:
 Only one option is correct.
 Correct option will yield 1 (one) mark
 Incorrect option will yield -¼ (negative ¼) marks.
 For any combination of more than one option, even if it contains the correct option,
the said answer will be treated as incorrect and will yield -¼ (negative ¼) marks.
 Not attempting the question will fetch 0 marks.
b) Category 2:
 One or more options is/are correct.
 Marking all correct options only will yield 2 (two) marks.
 For any combination of answers containing one or more incorrect options, the said
answer will be treated as incorrect, and it will yield zero (0) mark even if one or
more of the chosen options is/are correct.
 For partially correct answers, i.e., when all correct options are not marked and also
no incorrect options are marked, marks awarded = 2 x (no of correct options
marked) / (total no of actually correct options)
 Not attempting the question will fetch 0 marks