{"id":998,"date":"2019-05-29T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upsccse.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2019-06-03T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:05:57","slug":"how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks-with-negative-marking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks-with-negative-marking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Calculate UPSC Prelim Marks With Negative Marking."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In This post We Will see, How To calculate\/Count UPSC Prelim Marks? and What is negative marking in upsc prelims examination. so in UPSC civil services prelims examinations we have two papers namely paper 1 and paper 2 and both have the \u2153 negative marking system. but difference is that in paper 1, the one question is for 2 marks and in paper 2 we have one question is for 2.5 marks. so, there is a little bit difference in the marks calculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks.png\" alt=\"how to calculate upsc prelim marks and is there negative marking in upsc prelims\" class=\"wp-image-999\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks.png 690w, http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks-300x175.png 300w, http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks-80x47.png 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><figcaption><strong>How To Count UPSC Prelim Marks<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>so, now we will see how to calculate the UPSC civil services preliminary examinations marks.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>first of all you should know these two things about paper 1 and Paper 2 negative marking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>paper 1 negative marking (1\/3) is &nbsp;for each wrong answer you will get penalty of 0.66 marks.<\/li><li>paper 2 negative marking (1\/3) is &nbsp;for each wrong answer you will get penalty of 0.82 marks.<\/li><li>In Paper 2 You won&#8217;t get any penalty\/negative marking for Decision Making Questions (if UPSC will Ask it again. because, upsc is now not asking it)<\/li><li>There will be No Negative Marking For Unsolved Questions.<\/li><li>Paper 1 and Paper 2 both are compulsory but Paper 2 is Qualifying in Nature.(You have to score only 33% Marks In Paper 2)<\/li><li>Only Paper 1\u2019s Marks Will Be considered for Cut Off.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in paper 1 you got 70 right answers and 10 wrong answers and in paper 2 you got 35 right answers and 7 wrong answers.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paper 1 Marks :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights Answers : 70 x 2 = 140 Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong Answers : 10 x 0.66 = 6.6 Marks<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your Score : 140 &#8211; 6.6 = 133.4 Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Your Score for Paper 1 is 133.4 Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paper 2 Marks :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights Answers : 35 x 2.5 = 87.5 Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong Answers : 7 x 0.82 = 5.74 Marks<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your Score : 87.5 &#8211; 5.74 = 81.76 Marks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Your Score for Paper 1 is 81.76 Marks<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this way you can calculate your UPSC civil services preliminary examination marks. as you can see that in a paper 2 there are 81.76 Marks Which are Higher than the Qualifying Marks so, your paper 1 marks are eligible for Cut off Ranking\/Calculation. Compulsion is that you have to Score minimum 33% marks in paper 2 otherwise simply you will be disqualified in prelim even you get 200 marks in paper 1. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This post We Will see, How To calculate\/Count UPSC Prelim Marks? and What is negative marking in upsc prelims examination. so in UPSC civil services prelims examinations we have &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to Calculate UPSC Prelim Marks With Negative Marking.\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/how-to-calculate-upsc-prelim-marks-with-negative-marking\/#more-998\" aria-label=\"More on How to Calculate UPSC Prelim Marks With Negative Marking.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[134,137,138,136,135],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/upsccse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}