Bhubaneswar, May 8: The JEE-Advanced examination has clashed with the Odisha University of Agriculture Technology (OUAT) entrance test, both scheduled on the same date — May 25.

Students, who plan to take both the tests, have demanded rescheduling of any of the two tests. About 3,200 students from the state have been selected to appear for the JEE-Advanced test, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education. The examination would allow them to gain admission into undergraduate engineering and architecture courses at National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology, other centrally funded technical institutions and institutions under participating state governments.

More than 50,000 students from the state took the JEE-Mains, the results of which were published on May 3. Regional director of the board A.S. Verma said rescheduling of the test was impossible since it was conducted at the all-India level.

Vice-chancellor of OUAT Manoranjan Kar, too, said making changes in the examination schedule would be difficult. “The dates were announced about six month ago and 25,000 students have applied for the test. Moreover, students, who have applied for JEE-Advanced, are those, who wish to pursue their career in engineering. The number of those students, who wish to take both the exams, would be few. They probably are those, who are interested in agro-engineering. But, we cannot put 25,000 students in trouble for a handful of students,” said Kar.

Parthiv Behera, a student, who wishes to appear for both the exams, said he had written to the OUAT, requesting to make changes at least in the exam hours, so that students like him could appear.