WB Excise Constable 2023 notification will be released soon on the official website of the WBPRB. Candidates should be between 18 and 27 years of age and have qualified the Madyamik Examination from the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education or equivalent in order to sit for the WB Excise Constable examination. Additionally, he or she must have Bengali or Nepali as a language in their 10th standard examination.
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Particulars |
Details |
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Recruiting Body |
West Bengal Police |
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Post |
Excise Constable |
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Official Website |
Official website of West Bengal Police |
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Number of vacancies as per 2019 |
3,000 (Tentative) |
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Mode of the examination |
Offline |
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Selection Process |
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Official Website |
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Category |
Number of Vacancies |
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Unreserved (UR) |
1,170 |
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Unreserved (EC) |
480 |
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Scheduled Caste |
450 |
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Scheduled Caste (EC) |
210 |
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Scheduled Tribe |
120 |
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Scheduled Tribe (EC) |
60 |
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OBC – A |
210 |
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OBC – A (EC) |
90 |
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OBC – B |
150 |
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OBC – B (EC) |
60 |
The board may alter the eligibility requirements for 2023. Below we have shared the eligibility criteria as published in the official notification for the 2019 exam.
Here we have provided the age relaxation table for WB Excise Constable 2023 exam:
| Category | Relaxation of Upper Age |
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| Candidates of West Bengal who belong to the OBC category | 3 years |
| Candidates of West Bengal who belong to the SC/ST category | 5 years |
A candidate must have qualified the Madhyamik Examination from the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education or its equivalent and should have Bengali or Nepali as a language in their Madhyamik Examination.
| Class | Height (in cm.) | Chest (in cm.) | Weight (in kg.) |
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| Candidates of all categories (apart from Gorkhas, Rajbanshis and Scheduled Tribes) | 167 | 78 cm with a minimum expansion of 05 cm (78cm – 83cm) | Has to correspond with the as per medical standards |
| Gorkhas, Rajbanshis and Scheduled Tribes | 160 | 76 cm with a minimum expansion of 05 cm (76 cm – 81 cm) | Has to correspond with the as per medical standards |
| Class | Height (in cm.) | Weight (in kg.) |
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| Candidates of all categories (apart from Gorkhas, Rajbanshis and Scheduled Tribes) | 160 | Has to correspond with the as per medical standards |
| Gorkhas, Rajbanshis and Scheduled Tribes | 152 | Has to correspond with the as per medical standards |
| Height (Barefoot) (In cm) | Desirable weight of Male Excise Constable in kg | Desirable weight of Female Excise Constable in kg |
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| 152 | – | 44-57 |
| 154 | – | 44-58 |
| 156 | – | 45-58 |
| 158 | – | 46-59 |
| 160 | 52-65 | 48-61 |
| 162 | 53-66 | 49-62 |
| 164 | 54-67 | 50-64 |
| 166 | 55-69 | 51-65 |
| 168 | 56-71 | 52-66 |
| 170 | 58-73 | 53-67 |
| 172 | 59-74 | 55-69 |
| 174 | 60-75 | 56-70 |
| 176 | 62-77 | 58-72 |
| 178 | 64-79 | 59-74 |
| 180 | 65-80 | 60-77 |
| 182 | 66-82 | 61-78 |
| 184 | 67-84 | 63-80 |
| 186 | 69-86 | 64-82 |
| 188 | 71-88 | 66-84 |
| 190 | 73-90 | – |
| 192 | 75-93 | – |
Candidates can apply when the application dates will be announced by the authorities. They can follow these simple steps to complete the application process:
The candidates need to pay an application fee for completing the application process.
| Category | Fee for Application | Fee for Processing | Total Amount Payable |
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| All categories apart from Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe (of West Bengal only) | INR 200/- | INR 20/- | INR 220/- |
| Scheduled Caste (West Bengal only) | – | INR 20/- | INR 20/- |
| Scheduled Tribe (West Bengal only) | – | INR 20/- | INR 20/- |
| Subject | Syllabus for the examination |
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| Bengali Language |
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| Nepali Language |
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| Subject | Syllabus for Examination |
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| General Knowledge | National Dance |
| Music and Literature | |
| Indian Culture | |
| Scientific Observations | |
| Political Science | |
| World organizations | |
| Countries and Capitals | |
| Famous Places in India | |
| Books and Authors | |
| Important Dates | |
| About India and its neighboring countries | |
| Science and innovations | |
| New Inventions | |
| Economic problems in India | |
| Geography of India | |
| National and International Current Affairs | |
| English Language | Spelling Test |
| Substitution | |
| Completion of passage | |
| Phrases and Idioms | |
| Sentence | |
| Completion | |
| Comection of Errors | |
| Transformation | |
| Antonyms | |
| Active and Passive Voice | |
| Substitution | |
| Completion of paragraphs | |
| Joining sentences | |
| Correction of Sentences | |
| Improvement of Sentences | |
| Synonyms | |
| Prepositions | |
| Arrangement of Sentences | |
| Fill in the blanks | |
| Spotting emons | |
| Elementary Mathematics | Sense of numbers and numeration |
| Measurement | |
| Equations and formulas | |
| Compact and straight-edge | |
| Similarity and congruence | |
| Three-dimensional geometry | |
| Rational numbers | |
| Analytic geometry | |
| Negative numbers | |
| Exponents and radicals | |
| Patterns, nelations and functions | |
| Slopes and trigonometry | |
| United States | |
| Analysis and the representation of data | |
| Basic two-dimensional geometry | |
| Proportions | |
| Reasoning | Venn diagram |
| Blood relations | |
| Coding and decoding | |
| Ranking of numbers | |
| Arithmetical reasoning | |
| Mirror Images | |
| Grouping of identical figures | |
| Figure matrix questions | |
| The problem of calculation of age | |
| Making of decisions | |
| Inference | |
| Analogy | |
| Non-Verbal series | |
| Test of Direction Sense | |
| Number Series | |
| Series of alphabets | |
| Arguments |
The West Bengal Excise Constable Recruitment Exam consists of two stages. The specifics of each stages are detailed below.
| Subject | Questions | Marks |
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| Test of Language (Bengali/Nepali) | 50 | 50 |
| General Awareness and Reasoning | 50 | 50 |
The final step will be a written exam after passing the PMT/PET. This exam will put candidate’s one step closer to getting hired. A total of 90 questions will be asked during the exam, which will last an hour and thirty minutes. Each incorrect answer will result in a negative marking.The specifics are as follows:
| Subject | No. of Questions | Marks |
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| General Knowledge and General Awareness | 30 | 30 |
| English | 30 | 30 |
| Elementary Mathematics (Standard of Madhyamik) | 20 | 20 |
| Reasoning | 10 | 10 |
The board will shortlist the best applicants through a selection process. Candidates must clear all the stages for getting the job.The selection process is divided into the following parts, as defined by the committee for the year 2019. The same stages are expected to be followed for the 2023 cycle. The stages are as follows:
Candidates should download their admit card prior to the exam. They can get their admit cards by visiting the official website of the WBPRB. The following are the processes for downloading the admit card:
WBPRB will publish the results on its official website. The cut-off marks will be given together with the candidates’ scores. The process to get the result are as follows:
| Category | Cutoff |
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| For Unreserved Candidate | 72% to 80% |
| For Unreserved (EC) | 66% to 75% |
| For Scheduled Caste | 53% to 59% |
| For Scheduled Caste (EC) | 49% to 54% |
| For Scheduled Tribe | 50% to 55% |
| For Scheduled Tribe (EC) | 48% to 54% |
| For OBC – A | 65% to 72% |
| For OBC – A (EC) | 61% to 66% |
| For OBC- B | 58% to 65% |
| For OBC – B (EC) | 56% to 62% |
WB Excise Constable receive a handsome monthly salary in exchange for their service. Here is the breakdown of their salary:
| Name of the post | Pay Scale | Pay-Band/Level of pay | Grade Pay | WB Excise Constable | INR 5,400 – INR 25,200/- | Level 2 | INR 2,600/- |
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Candidates can earn a higher position after 5-8 years of work based on internal assessments in addition to promotions and salary increments.
Yes, negative marking will be used in West Bengal excise constable exams. If an answer is incorrect, a quarter of a score will be deducted both in the preliminary and main exams.
A personal interview along with document verification is conducted for candidates who clear the preliminary and main examination in the WB Excise Constable Exam.
The duration of WB Excise Constable Written Exam is 1 hour 30 minutes.
There will be 85 Questions in the WB Excise Constable Written Exam.
The reasoning topics that a candidate should concentrate for the WB Excise Constable Exam are:
A candidate can get the WB Excise Constable Exam previous year question papers on their official website.
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