This time the questions were a combination of subjective and objective type. About 80 percent of the question paper was objective in nature and the answers of which were to be recorded on an Optical Mark Reader (OMR) sheet.

The rest of the questions were subjective and the students had to write the answers on the same sheet. Since the students were allowed to retain the question paper with them, they carried the answers of the subjective part along with them.

According to Asim Bose, the member secretary of the Joint Entrance Examination Board, a complaint has been lodged with the police that the subjective part of the scripts of many students were missing.

“We have received four to five such complaints from Kolkata and adjoining areas. The parents and teachers are approaching us but we cannot provide them any respite,” Bose said.

“We cannot consider the papers for correction,” he further added. Some parents approached the board and claimed that they did not tamper with the answers but to no avail.