Students enter an examination centre in Bhubaneswar on Monday. Picture by Ashwinee Pati

Bhubaneswar, March 25: The Plus Two physics paper that was cancelled on March 7 following reports of question paper leak was conducted today.

While Debjani, an examinee at BJB Junior College, felt, “Some objective questions were indirect and tricky”, Rakesh Behera, another student said he “found the paper easy and finished it with time to spare”.

Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) officials said they were taking measures to ensure that the exam for the last paper — chemistry — to be held on March 30 was problem free. The chemistry exam, which was earlier scheduled for March 9, had been postponed after a question packet was found tampered with.

The practical tests, which were earlier supposed to be held between March 22 and March 31, will now end on April 6. This has left many aspirants of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) worried as the all-India test is slated for April 7 in Rourkela, the sole offline centre in the state.

Authorities of the CHSE said only around 19,000 students from the state would appear for JEE. Of them, about 4,000 have chosen the online test to be held between April 8 and April 20. Around 3,000 others completed their Plus Two last year.

“That leaves 12,000 candidates who can ask their college principals to schedule their practical exams in a way that it does not affect their JEE preparations ,” said CHSE secretary Tusharkanti Tripathy.