WBJEE result 2025 out after legal deadlock over OBC quota, relief for engineering aspirants

The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination Board (WBJEEB) has declared the WBJEE result 2025 after a delay of more than two months, stemming from a legal battle over the updated OBC reservation list, that left thousands of engineering aspirants in a limbo. Candidates can finally view and download their WBJEE scorecard 2025 by logging into their profile on the official website, wbjeeb.nic.in.

Candidates can download the WBJEE 2025 rank card by using their login credentials such as application number and password. The WBJEE rank card 2025 will carry details such as the candidate's name, roll number, rank, subject-wise score, total scores, date of birth, category, domicile, application number, and gender.

Students belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories were asked to upload their caste certificates by August 21 for a fresh merit list. Calcutta High Court ordered the West Bengal JEE board to prepare a new WBJEE merit list, discarding the old one as "erroneous" and against the previous order on OBC quota.

West Bengal JEE result 2025 has been prepared based on the final answer key. WBJEE 2025 exam was held on April 27 in two sessions.

Contempt case, fresh merit list

A day before the revised result date, Calcutta HC initiated contempt proceedings against the state government and WBJEEB over violation of the court order, further postponing the WBJEE 2025 result. Justice Kaushik Chanda summoned the principal secretary of higher education department to apprise the court of the state’s position on the matter.

The board was ready to declare the WBJEE 2025 results on August 7.

WBJEE result 2025 delay

It’s only after the Supreme Court stayed the Calcutta High Court’s earlier decision to halt the implementation of a revised list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) notified by the state government that the path was cleared to publish the WBJEE result.

Candidates were asked to upload details about their caste category certificate on the official portal by August 4. The board decided to update every candidate's profile with caste category details after consulting legal experts.

On July 28, a top court bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria, while hearing the state government’s appeal, vacated the high court’s stay finding it "erroneous".

On June 17, the Calcutta HC put an interim stay on notifications issued by the state government with regard to reservations to 140 sub-sections under OBC-A and OBC-B categories. The state had prepared the new list after the high court, in May 2024, quashed the inclusion of as many as 77 communities in the OBC list.

Around 500 BTech aspirants even wrote to the exam board expressing their concern over the delay in declaring the results. They talked about how the delay risked their admission opportunities in parallel counselling such as Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).

Jadavpur University teachers also proposed a separate WBJEE counselling process after the results. In an open letter to the students, parents, and others, Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) flagged how the delay in result is forcing students with good ranks to settle for private colleges charging exorbitant fees or move to education institutions in other states resulting in a loss for state government colleges.

How to check WBJEE result 2025?

Students can follow the steps given below to download the scorecard.

• Visit the official website of WBJEEB, wbjeeb.nic.in.
• On the homepage, click on link for the WBJEE result.
• Now, enter the application number and password to log in.
• WBJEE 2025 result scorecard will be displayed on the screen.
• Download and take a printout of it for future reference.