West Bengal Joint
Entrance Examination (WBJEE) board has decided to revise the examination date
for WBJEE-2019. The JEE board will announce the new date soon.
The West
Bengal Joint Entrance Exam board had initially announced to hold the entrance
test (WBJEE 2019) for admission to engineering colleges and pharmacy institutes
on 21st April 2019 next year. But an announcement uploaded on the
board's website on December 12 said that the test would be held on 19th
May 2019 instead.
The latest
notice on the website declares that "the date of WBJEE-2019 examination
will be reconsidered and the new date will be announced shortly". The JEE Advanced
2019 examination is scheduled for 19th May 2019.
"The new
dates will be announced soon," JEE board chairman Malayendu Saha said on
Monday.
Saha had,
while announcing the results of the WBJEE 2018 in May, said WBJEE 2019 exam was
likely be held on April 21 in 2019.
"We have
tentatively fixed April 21, 2019, which is a Sunday," Saha had said.
Now the exam
has been deferred to May 19, assuming that the general election results would
be out by then as the five-year term of the Lok Sabha ends on May 19, an
official said.
This year, the
exam was held on April 22 and the results were announced on May 23.
Online
application and payment of fees for WBJEE 2019 will begin on December 26.
"The forms can be submitted online till 5pm on January 22, 2019.
Corrections can be made online and a revised confirmation page downloaded from
January 23 to January 25," JEE board chairman Saha said.
The
downloadable admit cards were to be published on May 7, 2019.
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