WBCHSE Introduces 5 new Subjects for Class 12th for 2025-26, Details Here

West Bengal HS Board Exam 2025: WBCHSE to conduct the Class 12 theory exams from March 3 to 18, 2025. Five new subjects have been announced by the board. The newly introduced AI, data science (AIDS) to replace 2 subjects. Read below to know more.

Laavanya Negi
Feb 21, 2025, 12:10 IST

West Bengal HS Board Exam 2025: West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) to conduct the Class 12 theory exams from March 3 to 18, 2025. Five new subjects have been announced by the board. The newly introduced AI and data science (AIDS) to replace 2 subjects - ARTI and DTSC.

The board has announced the addition of Environmental Science (EVSC), Fisheries and Aquaculture (FSAQ), Business Mathematics and Basic Statistics (BMBS), and Basic Mathematics for Social Sciences (BMSS) along with AI and Data Science (AIDS). The board also stated, "Two subjects, ARTI and DTSC, introduced from academic year 2023-24 will be withdrawn and AIDS will be introduced to all schools either with ARTI or DTSC in their subject list."

WBCHSE 2025 Exam Highlights

Overview 

Details

Exam name

WB High School Exam 2025

Conducting board

West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE)

Academic year

2025-26

Class 

12th

WB HS Exam Update: 5 New subjects

With the latest developments, the following subjects have been introduced by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) this academic session:

Set allowed

New courses

Students from set 1

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AIDS)

Students from set 1

Environmental Science (EVSC)

Students from set 1 and 3

Fisheries and Aquaculture (FSAQ)

Students from Set 2

Business Mathematics and Basic Statistics (BMBS)

Students from Set 3

Basic Mathematics for Social Sciences (BMSS)

“It may be noted that one duly qualified teacher can teach at most three subjects out of COMA, COMS, AIDS, CBST, and APAI. Any school having more than three of these subjects should have two duly qualified teachers,” the WB board said. It further stated, “In all cases, Consent from the teacher needed stating that he/she would examine HS answer scripts of all those subjects which he/she would be teaching at the school.”

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WB HS 2025 Subject Combinations

For the WB HS Class 12 exam 2025, the subjects are divided into first and second languages

First language: English-A, Bengali-A, Hindi-A, Nepali-A, Urdu, Santhali, Odia, Telugu, or Punjabi

Second language: English-B, Bengali-B, Hindi-B, alternative English, or Nepali-B

There are three subject combinations available:

Set No.

Subjects allowed

Set 1

  • Physics or Nutrition
  • Chemistry or Geography
  • Economics or Anthropology or Science of Well Being
  • Mathematics or Agriculture
  • Biological Science
  • Statistics or Psychology
  • Computer Science or Environmental Science or Visual Arts or Health and Physical Education or Music or Modern Computer Application
  • Cyber Security or Artificial Intelligence and Data Science or Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • One vocational elective subject

Set 2

  • Accountancy
  • Business Studies
  • Commercial Law and Preliminaries of Auditing or Statistics
  • Costing and Taxation
  • Economics or Science of Well Being or Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Modern Computer Application or Environmental Studies or Health and Physical
  • Education or Visual Arts or Music
  • Business Mathematics and Basic Statistics
  • One vocational elective subject

Set 3

  • Political Science or Biological Science
  • Education or Nutrition
  • Journalism and Mass Communication or Sanskrit or Persian or Arabic or Basic Mathematics for Social Sciences or Agriculture
  • Economics or Anthropology or Science of Well Being or Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy
  • Sociology or Fisheries and Aquaculture
  • History or Psychology or Statistics
  • Geography or Human Development and Resource Management
  • Music or Visual Arts or Health and Physical Education or Environmental Studies or Modern Computer Application
  • One vocational elective subject
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