Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered the state government to award full marks for seven multiple-choice questions in the 2015 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) for primary schools to 69 candidates.

The candidates had filed a petition alleging that the questions had been wrong.

Justice Samapti Chatterjee’s order says all 69 petitioners should be given jobs if they could score the qualifying marks after being awarded the full marks for the seven questions.

The order was issued on the basis of the report of a probe conducted by Visva-Bharati.

The court, after admitting the petition filed by 69 unsuccessful candidates alleging that altogether 11 questions in the exam were wrong, had in June asked the Santiniketan university to find out whether the charge was true.

The university, which had been given three months to submit its report, had set up a three-member committee to examine the allegation of the petitioner candidates.

The court received the report on Wednesday.

The report, according to Justice Chatterjee, has found nothing wrong in four of the 11 questions.

Of the remaining seven questions, one has been found “totally wrong”.

The judge ordered that full marks would have to be awarded to the candidates who attempted the “totally wrong” question.

As for the remaining six questions, the probe team found nothing wrong with them and each had the right answer among the four options. However, the probe panel has pointed out, the West Bengal Board of Primary Education has identified wrong options as the correct answers.

Many of the 69 petitioners had ticked the right options for the six questions but were not awarded any marks as their answers were deemed wrong.

Justice Chatterjee ordered that all those who had ticked the right options in the six questions be awarded full marks.

“All those (among the 69 petitioners) who manage to score the requisite marks after they are awarded the marks against the seven questions will have to be offered jobs in state-aided primary schools,” Justice Chatterjee ruled.

The TET (primary) was held in October 2015. The advertisement for the exam was published in 2014.

Around 30 lakh candidates had appeared in the exam for 43,000 vacant posts of assistant teacher in the 59,000-odd government-aided primary schools (from classes I to V) in Bengal.

The results were declared in 2016 and more than 41,000 candidates were given jobs in 2017.

Manik Bhattacharya, the president of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education, was not available for comment. Metro tried to call him several times but his phone was switched off.