NEGATIVE MARKING/PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS There is Penalty for wrong answers marked by the candidate in the Objective type Question Papers. Except some of the questions where the Negative Marking will be built in the form of different marks being awarded to most appropriate and not so appropriate answer for such questions. The underlined sentence must be read carefully as in the PRELIMS 2011 Paper 2 there were questions which didn’t had any penalty. It was free from negative marking. Candidate should keep in mind. There are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one third (0.33) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question. If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. Negative marking was introduced in the year 2011 to filter out candidates who get selected on the basis of smart guesses and luck. So, the serious candidates should cheer up now. Negative marking make paper more complex. But it is easy for well prepared students and gives an extra benefit to genuine candidates. How to tackle negative marking? Identify the areas of your strength in the question paper. Solve questions from these areas first. Solving easy question will boost your confidence. Don’t waste your time for particular questions. Leave time consuming questions to take up in the end. The definition of intelligent guessing changes now with negative marking. You should tick only those answers which you feel 70% correct. Don’t play any blind and stupid game of guessing. Practice…Practice…Practice…Mock tests reduce mistake in the exam and prepare you to face real environment in which you can tackle & solve the questions within time limit. Mock tests provide you a platform where you can check your own weakness, mistakes and errors and develop a better understanding for solving different types of questions.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:13:54 +0000
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