BCECE 2025 Exam: Dates (Out), Admit Card (Out), Syllabus, Pattern, Result

BCECE entrance exam is being conducted by the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB) for admissions to Agriculture and Horticulture Science courses. The entrance exam is held in a pen-paper-based mode. The BCECE 2025 entrance exam is being held for 1 hour 30 minutes (90 minutes) for each paper. There are separate question papers for BCECE i.e. Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, and Agriculture; each paper carries 100 questions for a total of 400 marks. 

The following table brings the highlights of the BCECE 2025 exam.

BCECE Contact Information

Official address: 

BCECE Board,

I.A.S. Association Building

Near Patna Airport,

Patna- 800014, Bihar (India)

Phone number: 0612-2220230, 0612-2225387

The candidates seeking admission to undergraduate science courses need to fulfill the eligibility criteria as mentioned below: 

• Candidates should have passed class 12th/ Intermediate or equivalent examination from the state board or any national board of education. 
• The candidates should have studied relevant science, mathematics, and agriculture subjects in the qualifying examination. 
• The minimum age limit is 16 years as of August 31, of the examination year. There is no maximum age limit 

For engineering and medical courses, the eligibility criteria would be the same as for JEE Main and NEET respectively.

The admission process through BCECE 2025 will be conducted as follows: 

Step 1: BCECE 2025 Application - Candidates interested in admissions through BCECE will have to apply for the exam online. The application form for BCECE 2025 is available on the official website of the exam board. The application process for BCECE 2025 included registration, filling in academic and personal details, uploading documents and fee payment. Candidates had to pay the application fee as follows: 

Step 2: Download BCECE 2025 Admit Card - Candidates who want to apply for the entrance exam will be issued BCECE 2025 admit card for appearing in the entrance exam. The admit card mentioned the candidates' name, roll number, exam centre name and location etc. Candidates could download their admit cards from the official website by entering their login details. Candidates had to carry their admit card on the exam day along with a photo ID as validated by the government. 

Step 3: Appear for BCECE 2025 Examination - Candidates need to appear for BCECE 2025 as per the exam schedule mentioned on their admit card. The examination will be held on June 7 and 8, 2025 in offline/pen-paper-based test mode. There are six different papers for all the streams and, each paper will be for 1 hour 30 minutes. Candidates had to report to their allotted exam centres at least an hour before the exam timings. 

Step 4: Check BCECE 2025 Result - BCECEB will announce the results for all papers after the exam will be conducted. Candidates can check their qualifying status and marks in BCECE 2025 by logging in to the official website. BCECEB also published separate merit lists for all subject groups basis which admissions were offered to different courses. 

Step 5: Appear for BCECE 2025 Counselling - Candidates need to participate in the counselling rounds of BCECE 2025 as per the merit list. The exam authority allotted seats at the participating colleges based on the merit lists, eligibility criteria and reservation criteria. Candidates will be given a chance to mark their preferences from the list of colleges accepting BCECE 2025 scores. Moreover, candidates seeking admission to the reserved seats need to show the relevant documents at the time of counselling for verification. 

The centre list for BCECE 2025 is given in the table below. The centres were located in Bihar and two centres outside Bihar (Jharkhand and others).  

BCECE 2025 syllabus was released by BCECEB along with the notification and information brochure of the exam. Looking at the past trend, the syllabus of BCECE 2025 remained unchanged from that of the previous years. BCECE syllabus is in line with Class 11 and Class 12 levels and has subjects such as Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, and Agricultural subjects. While preparing for the exam, aspirants must be thorough with the syllabus know the topic-wise weightage, and devise the preparation strategy accordingly. 

The BCECE 2025 exam pattern states that it is a paper-pencil-based test of 1.5 hours duration each for a total of five papers - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Agriculture, and Biology. The medium of questions was English and Hindi. The questions were objective type with multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with four answer options. Each paper carried 100 questions of four marks each. There was a negative marking scheme of one mark for each wrong answer. Hence, the total marks of the paper were 400 marks. Depending on the groups (PCM, PCB, CBA, MCA, MBA, and PCMB), the total marks range between 1200 and 1600.