Around 48,000 students from the State on Sunday appeared at the all India Joint Entrance Examination (Main) conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for admission into
various BTech and BArch courses.
The examination was conducted in two sittings amid tight security at at 71 centres in nine cities and towns of the State. Of the 71 centres, 21 were in Bhubaneswar. ‘The other centres were in Angul, Baleswar, Brahmapur, Bhawanipatna, Cuttack, Jeypore, Rourkela and Sambalpur.
On the other hand, the online examination would be held on April 9 and10.
CBSE, for the first time, has installed mobile phone jammers at the examination centres to prevent the use of mobile phones as a mode of
malpractice.
Besides, candidates were not allowed to carry pen or pencil to the centres. The authorities provided them pen to write answers.
Around 13 lakh students appeared the test across the country through offline and online mode.
JEE (Main) scores are taken into account for admission to undergraduate engineering and architecture programmes at National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), other Centrally-funded technical institutions, and institutions funded by participating state governments.