West Bengal Board 2027: Madhyamik & HS in February

West Bengal Board 2027: Two Boards, One February Rhythm — and What's Confirmed So Far

"West Bengal Board" is really two authorities, and students who treat them as one miss news constantly. The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) runs the Madhyamik — the Class 10 examination — while the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) runs the Higher Secondary (HS) examination for Class 12. For 2027 the position is split, and it matters: the Madhyamik 2027 routine is already out (WBBSE released it on 13 July 2026; exams run 15–25 February 2027), and HS Semester 3 has already been held (21 September–14 October 2026). Only the HS Semester IV subject-wise routine is still awaited. This page gives you the confirmed 2027 dates first, then the 2026 record they sit on.

Madhyamik 2027: the confirmed subject-wise routine

WBBSE released the Madhyamik Pariksha 2027 programme on 13 July 2026. Written exams run 15–25 February 2027, one paper a day, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. with reading time from 10:45 a.m.:

17 February and 20–21 February are rest days with no paper. Practical exams (Music, Work Education and other vocational subjects) will be announced separately. Two eligibility rules from the same notification catch students out: you must be born on or before 31 October 2012 (minimum age 15 — no Registration Certificate is issued to anyone born later), and regular candidates need at least 70% attendance across Classes 9 and 10 combined. Registration is only through your school — there is no private-candidate route — and admit cards are expected in January 2027 through school camp offices (in 2026 they were released on 20 January, with corrections allowed until 29 January). New for this session: schools may choose the First Language paper to match students whose medium of instruction is not Bengali (Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Odia, Santali, Gujarati, Telugu or Punjabi).

HS Semester 3, 2027 cycle: already held — and held on OMR

WBCHSE ran Semester 3 of the 2027 HS cycle from 21 September to 14 October 2026: 7,18,620 candidates (3,15,731 boys, 4,02,889 girls) at 825 centres covering 2,105 venues. The routine was revised twice — papers first set for 5–7 October moved to 12–14 October because of the Rejinagar and Nandigram by-elections, and vocational papers moved to the second sitting on 13 October for Karam Puja. The final shape was: languages on 21 September; second languages 24 September; Economics/Anthropology and allied papers 25 September; Physics, Nutrition, Education and Accountancy 28 September; Computer Science and allied papers 29 September; Statistics, Psychology and History 30 September; Chemistry, Geography and Business Studies 1 October; Philosophy 3 October; Mathematics and allied papers 12 October; Cyber Security, AI, Data Science and Sociology (plus vocational papers) 13 October; Biological Science, Political Science and Costing & Taxation 14 October.

Semester 3 was the first HS semester examined entirely by MCQ on OMR sheets, with question papers carrying unique serial numbers, sealed packets opened in front of students, and used OMR sheets transported with India Post. Papers ran 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. The Semester 3 result is expected by the second week of November 2026. Still to come in the 2027 HS cycle: project/practical examinations 22 January–13 February 2027, supplementary-exam admit cards on the portal on 13 January 2027, and the Semester IV theory examinations in February 2027 (subject-wise dates not yet notified — see Flags). The final HS result is expected in May 2027.

Marks, grades and passing marks — the numbers students actually ask for

Madhyamik: 8 subjects × 100 marks = 800 total (90 theory + 10 internal assessment per subject). To pass you need both at least 25/100 (Grade C) in every subject and at least 272/800 (34%) in aggregate — a high total does not rescue a failed subject. Grades run AA (90–100), A+ (80–89), A (60–79), B+ (45–59), B (35–44), C (25–34), D (below 25, fail). Divisions: First Division 480+ (60%), Second Division 360–479, Pass 272–359. Division is calculated on your 7 main subjects; the Optional Elective must be passed but does not count toward the division.

Higher Secondary (semester system): each subject is split across Semester 3 (MCQ on OMR, 35 or 40 marks) and Semester 4 (short-answer and descriptive, 35 or 40 marks), with the balance from project/practical work — 80 theory + 20 project for most humanities/commerce subjects, 70 theory + 30 practical for laboratory sciences. The pass mark is 30% in every subject, with theory and practical/project cleared separately. HS grades: A+ (80–100), A (60–79), B (45–59), C (30–44), D (below 30).

The 2026 results in numbers (your best guide to 2027)

Madhyamik 2026: 9,71,340 students appeared (5,44,606 girls, 4,26,733 boys) across 2,682 centres; 86.83% passed; the result was declared on 8 May 2026. The pass rate has been remarkably steady — 86.31% in 2024, 86.56% in 2025, 86.83% in 2026 — so a 2027 figure near 87% would be normal, not news. Kalimpong was the best-performing district (over 95%) and Kolkata passed over 92%. The 2026 topper, Abhirup Bhadra of Uttar Dinajpur, scored 99.71%; second was Priyatosh Mukherjee of Birbhum (99.43%), and third place was shared by Sourya Jana, Ankan Kumar Jana and Mainak Mondal (99.29% each). If your marks look wrong after the result, WBBSE opens a Post-Publication Review/Scrutiny window within a few weeks: scrutiny re-totals your marks, review checks for an unchecked answer; a small per-subject fee applies. Students failing one or two subjects can sit the supplementary (compartmental) examination instead of repeating the year.

The 2026 Madhyamik: how the Class 10 cycle actually ran

WBBSE released the Madhyamik Pariksha 2026 programme by notification dated 6 May 2025, and the exams ran from 2 to 12 February 2026: First Languages on 2 February, Second Languages 3 February, History 6 February, Geography 7 February, Mathematics 9 February, Physical Science 10 February, Life Science 11 February, and Optional Elective subjects closing the schedule on 12 February. Papers ran 10:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with the first 15 minutes reserved for reading the question paper. About 9 lakh candidates typically appear for Madhyamik across the state, and the same order of subjects has been broadly stable for years — language first, then the social sciences, then maths and the sciences.

Two practical lessons from 2026 carry straight into 2027. First, the routine arrives nearly nine months before the exams, so West Bengal students get more timetable certainty earlier than almost any state board — the moment the 2027 PDF drops, it is the real thing, not a draft. Second, registration and enrolment form deadlines sit outside the exam programme: schools handle registration through the board's processes months earlier, and a student's failure point is almost never the exam day itself but a missed school-level deadline or a name/spelling mismatch on the registration that surfaces later on the admit card.

The 2026 Higher Secondary: the semester system takes over

WBCHSE's Class 12 programme ran from 12 to 27 February 2026 in a single 10:00 a.m.–1:15 p.m. session: first-language papers (group A) on 12 February, second-language papers on 13 February, then Physics/Nutrition/Education/Accountancy on the 17th, vocational subjects on the 18th, and the remaining sciences, humanities and commerce papers through to 27 February. Roughly 7.1 lakh students sat across some 2,100 centres.

The structural change mattering for 2027 is WBCHSE's semester system: higher secondary is now divided into four semesters — Semesters 1 and 2 in Class 11, Semesters 3 and 4 in Class 12 — with Semester 4 functioning as the board's final examination and Semester 3 supplementary papers scheduled alongside it in the 2026 February window. If you are entering Class 12 in the 2026–27 session, you are not facing one monolithic board exam but the back half of a four-semester structure, and your Semester 3 performance is already banked. Students, parents and schools should read the council's own semester notifications on wbchse.wb.gov.in rather than relying on summaries, because the interaction between semester results and the final HS marksheet is precisely the kind of detail that gets garbled in forwarded messages.

Results: what the rhythm tells you

Both boards declare results by May in the established pattern — Madhyamik results first, HS after — and results are checked on the board websites and the state's result portals using roll number and date of birth. The scrutiny/rechecking (PPS/PPR for Madhyamik) and supplementary/compartment notices follow the results, each with its own short application window. Anchor on the official announcements when they come: result-day screenshots circulating in groups have repeatedly carried wrong dates in past cycles.

What to do now for 2027

1. Watch the two official sites separately— wbbse.wb.gov.in for Madhyamik, wbchse.wb.gov.in for HS. Do not rely on a single "West Bengal board" aggregator page to catch both.
2. Confirm your registration details with your school now— name spelling, date of birth, subject combination. Corrections after admit cards print are painful.
3. Build your revision calendar on the confirmed 2027 routineMadhyamik students have fixed dates (15–25 February, Mathematics on the 22nd) — work backwards from them. HS students should plan around the January–February practical window and treat February as the Semester IV window until WBCHSE notifies subject-wise dates.
4. For HS students, manage the semester load deliberately— Class 11 semester results and Class 12 semester work both feed your final standing under the new structure; do not coast through Semesters 1–2 assuming only the final matters.
5. Save the official routine PDF itselfwhen it appears — not a screenshot, not a forwarded image — and cross-check your subjects against it line by line.

When WBCHSE publishes the Semester IV programme, this page should be updated with its subject-wise dates — the Madhyamik routine and the Semester 3 record above are already final. Until then, the students who do well are the ones who have registration, subjects and revision structure sorted before the last routine lands.

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