WBP constable cut off marks by category and gender

What the WBP constable cut off marks mean

In the current format, West Bengal Police constable selection runs through a written test, a physical measurement test (PMT), a physical efficiency test (PET) and an interview. The two physical stages are pass or fail. Merit is the sum of your 85 mark written score and your 15 mark interview score, and the closing figure for any category and gender is simply the merit total of its lowest ranked selected candidate.

There are two kinds of number to keep apart:

• Stage cut off: the score needed in the written test to be called for PMT and PET.
• Final cut off: the closing merit score after the interview, which decides who actually gets appointed.

Topics for the 85 mark paper are listed on our WBP constable syllabus page.

Final cut off, 2024 recruitment

On the EWS lists, men needed 53.33 while women needed just 19.75. The board also printed separate figures for sub categories inside each group, such as home guards and National Volunteer Force members (NVF and HG), civic and village police volunteers (CV and VPV) and meritorious sports persons. As an example, the UR civic volunteer row ended at 61.50 (men) and 38.58 (women), while the UR sports quota row ended at 62.17 and 42.00. If you applied under one of these, look for your exact row.

Reading the male and female columns

Men's figures sit within about 13 marks of each other across UR, OBC, SC and ST, from 50.33 up to 63.42. Women's figures are lower and less regular: ST women closed above SC and OBC women, and EWS women closed at only 19.75. These swings come from how many women applied in each category against the posts reserved for them, not from an easier paper.

Men face a much tighter race. An unreserved male candidate needed more than 63 of 100, which roughly means scoring well above 55 in the written test before the interview is added.

WBP constable previous year cut off in the old two paper format

Older recruitments had two written papers, a preliminary and then a final, and searches for the WBP constable mains cut off previous year refer to that second paper. These are the reported 2018 recruitment numbers, from a year in which OBC candidates were still listed as OBC-A and OBC-B.

Because the structure and scale were different, a 2018 figure cannot be set against a 2024 final merit score. What they do show is that cut offs were close together across categories in the written stage, and that the final written test was where the real filtering happened.

Forces behind the next WBP closing marks

• Vacancies by gender and category: the notice sets separate counts for men and women, and each list closes on its own.
• Penalty for errors: every incorrect response loses 0.25, which drags raw totals down and explains the decimals in the list.
• Interview marks: 15 marks, including a check of your language skills, can move you several places in a crowded list.
• Sub category quotas: home guard, civic volunteer and sports quota posts close at their own scores.

There is no official WBP constable expected cut off. Build your target from the latest final figures for your category and gender, and add a safety margin.

Checking the official cut off

The board publishes results, cut off notices and merit lists on the board's official recruitment website. Inside the Constable and Lady Constable recruitment, look for the final result or cut off notice; candidates can also log in to see their own marks.

For other police recruitments in eastern India, the Bihar police cut off guide is a useful comparison. Graduates thinking about the sub inspector post can read the WBP SI syllabus.