The question pattern in next year’s joint entrance examination, scheduled for April 15, will be entirely objective, the chairman of the West Bengal Joint Entrance Board, Bhaskar Gupta, announced on Tuesday.

JEE has been following a mixed pattern, 80 per cent of the questions being objective.

“There will be 100 per cent objective questions in the joint entrance examination next year,” said Gupta. “The IIT-JEE follows this model.”

The chairman, however, added that it had not yet been decided whether the 20 per cent subjective questions — which will also be made objective next year — would be multiple-choice. “We will announce the pattern in the next meeting of the board in November,” he said.

“The questions could be made either multiple-choice or the students could be asked to write the answers in a sentence,” said a board member.