diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java
index f70ef99..9ce6090 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java
@@ -213,6 +213,36 @@
 	assertEquals(5, kr.getItemsPerPage());
     };
 
+    @Test
+    public void searchJSONstartPage () throws IOException {
+
+	// Construct index
+	KorapIndex ki = new KorapIndex();
+	// Indexing test files
+	for (String i : new String[] {"00001", "00002", "00003", "00004", "00005", "00006", "02439"}) {
+	    ki.addDocFile(
+	      getClass().getResource("/wiki/" + i + ".json.gz").getFile(), true
+            );
+	};
+	ki.commit();
+
+	String json = getString(getClass().getResource("/queries/bsp-paging.json").getFile());
+
+	KorapSearch ks = new KorapSearch(json);
+	KorapResult kr = ks.run(ki);
+	assertEquals(10, kr.getTotalResults());
+	assertEquals(5, kr.getStartIndex());
+	assertEquals(5, kr.getItemsPerPage());
+
+	json = getString(getClass().getResource("/queries/bsp-cutoff.json").getFile());
+	ks = ks = new KorapSearch(json);
+
+	kr = ks.run(ki);
+	assertEquals(-1, kr.getTotalResults());
+	assertEquals(2, kr.getStartIndex());
+	assertEquals(2, kr.getItemsPerPage());
+
+    };
 
 
     public static String getString (String path) {
diff --git a/src/test/resources/queries/bsp-cutoff.json b/src/test/resources/queries/bsp-cutoff.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f1f834
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/queries/bsp-cutoff.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{
+    "@context": {
+        "@language": "de", 
+        "class": {
+            "@id": "korap:class", 
+            "@type": "xsd:integer"
+        }, 
+        "filter": "korap:filter", 
+        "korap": "http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/ns/query", 
+        "meta": "korap:meta", 
+        "operands": {
+            "@container": "@list", 
+            "@id": "korap:operands"
+        }, 
+        "query": "korap:query", 
+        "relation": {
+            "@id": "korap:relation", 
+            "@type": "korap:relation#types"
+        }
+    }, 
+    "query": {
+        "@type": "korap:token", 
+        "@value": {
+            "@type": "korap:term", 
+            "@value": "base:alphabet", 
+            "relation": "="
+        }
+    },
+    "startPage":2,
+    "count": 2,
+    "cutOff": true,
+    "context":{
+      "left":["char",90],
+      "right":["char",90]
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/resources/queries/bsp-paging.json b/src/test/resources/queries/bsp-paging.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac352a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/queries/bsp-paging.json
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{
+    "@context": {
+        "@language": "de", 
+        "class": {
+            "@id": "korap:class", 
+            "@type": "xsd:integer"
+        }, 
+        "filter": "korap:filter", 
+        "korap": "http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/ns/query", 
+        "meta": "korap:meta", 
+        "operands": {
+            "@container": "@list", 
+            "@id": "korap:operands"
+        }, 
+        "query": "korap:query", 
+        "relation": {
+            "@id": "korap:relation", 
+            "@type": "korap:relation#types"
+        }
+    }, 
+    "query": {
+        "@type": "korap:token", 
+        "@value": {
+            "@type": "korap:term", 
+            "@value": "base:alphabet", 
+            "relation": "="
+        }
+    },
+    "startPage":2,
+    "count": 5,
+    "context":{
+      "left":["char",90],
+      "right":["char",90]
+    }
+}