Calcutta, Jan. 2: The Bengal JEE board will not upload answer scripts on its website this year.

The system was started in 2012 to help students assess their performance before the results are published. The "time constraint" this year in view of the Assembly elections has prompted the board's decision.

The board will conduct the exam on May 17, assuming the election results will be declared by May 15. It will publish the JEE results by June 5 in keeping with a Supreme Court directive.

In the past, the board has held the exam in the third week of April.

"We will have just 19 days to publish the results. It won't be possible for us to scan the huge volume of answer scripts and post each of them on the board's website, seeking feedback, in such a short time," board chairman Sajal Dasgupta said today. "So, we have decided to scrap the practice this year."

Former board chairman Bhaskar Gupta had started the practice of posting answer scripts (OMR sheets) online to make the evaluation system transparent.

The system enabled students to see answer scripts online by keying in their registration numbers.

The OMR sheet containing multiple-choice questions and four options as answers and a student's answer script, containing the options chosen by him/her as read by a computer from an OMR sheet, used to be uploaded side by side to let a student verify if the computer had erred in evaluation.

In case of a doubt regarding an answer or a question, a student or anyone could appeal to the board through its website.

In 2013, students were tested on 238 marks instead of 250 - 100 for math and 75 each for physics and chemistry - after the board realised a few questions were wrong when someone pointed it out on its website.

While the exam was held on April 21 that year, the board uploaded the answer script on its website on May 17 and accepted feedback and/or suggestions till May 24.

The state board did not hold the medical entrance exam that year as it was part of the all-India common entrance test.

Ex-board chairman Gupta said there was a time constraint this year. "But the board should have taken steps to keep the system running to maintain transparency," he said.