West Bengal board introduces 5 new subjects for Class 12; subject combinations revised for 2025-26

New courses

Set allowed

Eligibility for schools

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AIDS)

Students from set 1

Computer Science (COMS) must be running at the school.

A duly qualified teacher in COMS can teach this subject.

Environmental Science (EVSC)

Students from set 1

Environment Studies or Biological Science [BIOS] or

Chemistry (CHEM) must be running at the school.

Duly qualified permanent teachers in ENVS, BIOS or CHEM can teach this subject.

Fisheries and Aquaculture (FSAQ)

Students from set 1 and 3

Biological Science [BIOS] must be running at the school.

Duly qualified permanent teacher in BIOS can teach this subject

Business Mathematics and Basic Statistics (BMBS)

Students from Set 2

Mathematics [MATH] must be running at the school.

Duly qualified permanent teacher in MATH can teach this

subject

Basic Mathematics for Social Sciences (BMSS)

Students from Set 3

Mathematics (MATH) must be running at the school.

Duly qualified permanent teacher in MATH can teach this subject.

Set number

Subjects allowed

• 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 subject offered by Council, which may be selected as optional elective subject only

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 subject offered by Council, which may be selected as optional elective subject only

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 subject offered by Council, which may be selected as optional elective subject only