OJEE 1st phase exam held

--Many fail to appear due to wrong course code

BHUBANESWAR: Due to wrong course code, many students could not appear the first phase of the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) of this year on Sunday. While, the OJEE authorities held the applicants responsible for putting wrong course code in their application form.

According to the students who failed to appear the exam said that their roll number was not matching with the examination centre and in some cases fresh applicants for engineering course had received identity card for lateral entry. Many of the applicants in some examination centers in the capital city failed to sit in the examination hall.

While the authorities of OJEE clarified that some students have put the wrong course code in the place of their interested course which left them in problem. “Around 150 students had come to the OJEE office and corrected their wrong course code before the examination day, but some of the students complained in the morning at the time of examination where we could not help them out,” said OJEE Vice-chairman Sitaram Mahapatra.

In Kolkata OJEE center, five fake candidates were held in the charge of impersonification in the examination. The persons came in the name of the original candidates to write for them and later the examination centre officials caught the fake candidates and handed over to the police, informed Mahapatra.     

Around one lakh students have appeared in the first phase of the examination on Sunday in 179 centers in the country including some major cities. The applicants of home State have appeared in 145 centers and there were 42 centers in the capital only. The result will be published on May last week and Rank card will be provided to the successful candidates by June second week, while the second phase of the OJEE for pharmacy course will be held on May 13.