Over 40,000 students, seeking admission to MBA, MCA, MTech, Pharmacy, lateral Entry Engineering, lateral Entry Pharmacy, Homoeopathy, Ayurveda and M Architect, sat for the Odisha Joint Entrance Examinations (OJEE) at 72 centres in 20 cities across the State on Sunday. As directed by the OJEE authorities, the candidates arrived at the centres an hour before the commencement of the examinations with the admit cards that had downloaded from the OJEE websites.
The offline examinations, conducted in two sittings of two hours each. While the first sitting began at 9am, the second sitting began at 2.30pm.According to OJEE secretary Priyabrata Sahu, the candidates this year are allowed to keep the question papers with them that would help them compare their scores after the test. Earlier, the question papers were parts of the answer-sheets.The results will be declared on May 30.