Negative Marking

Negative marking

Negative marking plays a vital role in a competitive examination, because without knowing the scheme of negative marking, if one appears in competitive examinations, then it can significantly affect the overall score of the exam.

Negative Marking for Office Attendant Examination in Kerala PSC

For each incorrect response, 0.33 marks are deducted.

Negative marking for Secretariat Office Attendant Examination in Kerala PSC 

For each incorrect response, 0.33 marks are deducted.

How to avoid negative marking in Kerala PSC examination

Negative marking happens when one marks the answers incorrectly, and in the examination paper. The total negative score or marks is deducted from the final score one gets after calculating. Sometimes people end up getting a lot of negative marking just because they answered carelessly; marking answers is a very vital part of these competitive examinations because once the answer is marked will be considered because the exam occurs in the OMR sheets. Given below are some tips to avoid negative marking:-

• Do not make random guesses –

Making random guesses during any competitive exams like Kerala PSC where negative marking is present is like putting yourself in front of a hungry lion, because the guess one is doing may be correct or incorrect. One must be a hundred percent confident before marking the answer to every question.

• Answering the question one is confident about –

One must answer the questions he or she is confident about. The questions that one is confident about should mark them first whereas and leave the answers one is not confident because attempting questions will not provide with negative marking but marking wrong answers will do. So, it is better to leave the questions one is not confident about.

• Take Calculated Risk –

If one is not sure about the answer but is somewhat confident about that, then he or she must take the risk and mark the answer, because leaving too many answers unattempted gives a negative impact on the candidate. One must calculate the marks before attempting the questions he or she is not aware of so that attempting the questions which he/she is not confident about does not bring a massacre to the paper.

• Attempt easier questions first –

Answering easier questions first is the very important part of the exam, after getting the question paper one must thoroughly go through the paper and identify the questions which are easier to them and mark the answers, then after marking answers which they feel to be easy only then they should go to the difficult part.