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How to Guess & Reduce Negative Marks [Steps to follow]

Negative marks in common bank

exam can create a sense of tension

especially with new rules.Earlier, english

test was deemed only for qualifying

purposes but now it has become a

scoring subject with every answer

carrying 1 mark.What this means is -

the marks of this section will also be

added to the final score.

On our facebook page, we ran a poll

about negative marks.The results were

65% of candidates chose to leave all unknown questions

25% said they will decide after looking into the paper.

5% wanted to run through all.

Leave & Lose : The 65% of those who intend not to touch the unknown question are the

biggest losers here.By fixing your mind not to attend such questions, the chances of

improving your score is very low.What should these people do?

Three strategies based on a person`s capability could be employed in a test which

threatens with negative marks.They are:

1. No risk

2. High risk

3. Calculative risk

Now, lets us see each of the approaches in detail

No risk: In this approach, you are not interested to take any risk in trying to answer the

unknown questions.The fear of losing marks haunts you more.

Leaving 4-5 questions wont matter, but not attending 30-40 can hurt you.

Since you are not willing to take risks,you are losing an opportunity to increase the

scores.So following this approach is not good.

High risk: This involves taking the risk by the throat.You are not bothered about the

negative marks but rather look at the marks incase most of the guessed answers are

correct.The probability of failure is high, as the success.

Incase there are 50 questions that you don't know but plan to guess all.

With all of them turning out to be wrong – you will lose 12 marks!

So, this strategy will also not work as choosing answers blindly just for the sake of

attending all the questions will only reduce more marks.

Calculative risk: Most experts & coaching institutes recommend this method for

competitive exams wherein you take some risk by guessing answers for few

questions.For this, you must be sure of the choices made so far are correct. Only then it

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would be possible to calculate the amount of risk to take.

For example, lets say you are not confident enough to answer 50 questions.

As per the common clerk exam pattern, you will lose 50 marks of 250 which is

definitely huge.The total would be 200 marks.

What if you try guessing the answer for atleast 40 questions.

If 20 are correct & rest are incorrect, you would gain 15 marks (20-5) which

pushes your total score to 215 marks!

By calculating the risks involved, you have increased the score & this will surely help in

ranking, considering the high number of candidates.

There are also certain things to be kept in mind,

Don't make random guesses.If you have some knowledge of that subject & can

relate the question to the closest choice, then go ahead.

Do not waste time in thinking about the right answer.Do it or move on & return at

last.Time allocation is more important

The main reason why we favor calculative risk is – although the negative mark is 0.25,

you will be awarded 1 mark for correct choices.

So what is you approach? Share it as comments below,

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Prema • 2 years ago

hi sir dis is madhulatha...yesterday i wrote cwe...but which is quite

dissapointing bcs i spent lot of time in reading passage because of dat i didnt

attempted max maths que...i attempted 23 que in maths in other sections i

almost attempted 35+ where i will clear my cutoffs...but i m worried about

maths some of my frd said maths cutoff is 22...but i attempted 23

only....when will come d cwe results...

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > Prema

Time management is one main area that every1 has to work on.We

have published many ways on our website about how to preserve

time Common exam results can be expectd in 3 months time

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Bindaasss • 2 years ago

this is very nice and this approach is really helpful to us thank you

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Ranjitabehera272 • 2 years ago

thank u & this suggestion is really most helpful to us.........and calculative risk

is the best.THANK U

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AVINASH RATHI • 2 years ago

HIMA- it's compulsory to do rough work in booklet. you can use any page of

booklet, but u can not use any other paper instead.

and if u not use any of paper for rough work, this will not make any dis-

qulification.

don't worry and be prepare

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hima • 2 years ago> AVINASH RATHI

thanks AVI but i attempt all theQA questions by guessing but i not do

rough work one booklet .....will they reject...................

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Sumit • 2 years ago

One can guess in any section but in my opinion there is no logic behind

guessing the questions of math & reasoning.

can guess in G.A. & English if need arises :)

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Sindhupriya • 2 years ago

calculative risk is the best.

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Rajesh Mali • 2 years ago

it is possible to attend all 250 questions in 150 min..give 45 min for maths..40

min to reasoning..20 min to computer 20 min.g.k.. and 25 min.. english... if

you have regular practice in maths and reasoning and know all short cut... it

is possible to attend all paper....RAJESH MALI

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Kishorkyadav • 2 years ago> Rajesh Mali

u need to work hard bro...........

reasoning can be finished in 30 mints only n both the parts gk n

computer together will take half an hour ...........

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hima • 2 years ago

hi.....i have one query......can any one tel me the answer pls ........we have to

rough work in the question booklet itself............if it not do .....so .....whether

they will reject the candidate............or not...................

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Devang • 2 years ago> hima

if u hava done rough work on answer sheet or any other paper they

can reject the candidate.. bt if no rough work then its ok..

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Yadav Sonu76 • 2 years ago> hima

IN ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS THERE IS SPACE 4

ROUGHWORK......

SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT....

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Rajesh Mali • 2 years ago> hima

yes you can rough work in question booklet...

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Rockstar4u 1900 • 2 years ago

I think its impossible to solve all 250 questions in150 MIN.

One side u r saying that "ATTEND ALL THE REMAINING QUESTION WHCH

WE DNT KNOW THE ANSWER "

at the end u say "DONT MAKE RANDOM GUESS"

i dnt think anyone can solve whole paper.. in bank exam test type is "SPEED

TEST"

so with accuracy around 180-200 que u can easily score much higher thn

othrs,

and what is the guarantee. tht all ur guess are rite.. may all can be wrong !!!!

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Sweetanita Jain • 2 years ago

calculative risk is the best approach!

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vik rant thakur • 2 years ago

what should be an ideal attempt for each section for the clerk exams.

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kanhu • 2 years ago

this is agood proceedeer

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Sailaxman • 2 years ago

i will attend the IBPS clerical on NOV 27 exam ,i am fear of negative

marks,today i read your pattern(means how to reduce negative marks)

thanks for BANKEXAMS OF INDIA ...................LAXMAN

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Durgashankarswarnkar • 2 years ago

great guideline,EVERY TIME motivation,suggation by bank exam india... you

are a great Teacher...SALUTE

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Arupananda • 2 years ago

hi

i m ready to appear in the IBPS held in 27 nov

but i still confused that what can i do

when my luck fever to me i just wait

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Sheetal • 2 years ago

Hi SIr/Madam,

Pls tell us steps for PO Numerical TAble section problems as its very much

lengthy and time consuming ,some assumptions prblems in resoning

section.Time allotment need to do to score atleast qualifying in common PO

exam for nxt section.

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CHETAN • 2 years ago

Sir,i have a problem in the new method of asking questions in english

section..IBPS P.O english was tough and this new pattern was introduced in

SBI P.O..Many short comprehensions were asked having only one

question..It takes much time to read the whole comprehension which has

only one answer..How to attend those??

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Abhinav2007 • 2 years ago

Help!!!!!!!!!!

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B4 d new pattern for syllogism i was very confident in reasoning.. but wit d

new pattern in syllogism which started wit BOB clerk tis year... i m very

confused to attempt or not to attempt it..coz 4 out of 5 r always wrong.. 2nd

thng wit d non verbal... i never used to attempt those 10 question.. will it b a

wise step to guess 15 questions in reasoning section?? bad lucks always

comes wit me in the exam center...

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > Abhinav2007

Unless u hv knowledge abt the specific subject, don't guess

blindly.Remember, this common test is different compared to

previous bank recruitments.As we said in the article, decide whether

to guess or not based on ur performance in other questions.

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dimple • 2 years ago

if i continues choose 5 questions & choose there answers eg option B then

atleast one question answer is B then i not loose marks if by chance there

2question which have answer is option B then we have achived +1.25

marks......pls reply about this method.

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > dimple

cant understand ur method..be clear while asking such questions

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Ambimuthu • 2 years ago

yes this is very useful to people who are going to attend bank exam............

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Vicks • 2 years ago

if v attempt 40 questions and 20 of them are wrong v gain 15 marks , then the

total marks stand 215 and not 220 if m not wrong....

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > Vicks

Yes, thanks for correcting it..

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Manu • 2 years ago

thank you,you pepole are providing more info to us.one question when this sbi

clerks notification will be released

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Dhani • 2 years ago

if u cant download the call letter in your mail use ibps website ie..www.ibps.in

and give ur reg no:, date of birth and ur password by login this u can

download ur call letter.

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Kiran Dharanikota • 2 years ago

First of all you should not say the words like' big losers'. Those who are voted

65% are not losers. They have also succeeded in their examinations. Student

strategies are different in various examinations. After seeing the paper

student will decide not to attempt or not.

But you have given useful information. Thank you.

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > Kiran Dharanikota

In that poll, there was an option asking if you would look at the paper &

decide to attend or not.Only 20% chose it.So remaining were of the

mindset to not attend the questions, even b4 the exam.Those who

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mindset to not attend the questions, even b4 the exam.Those who

dont want to try are losers.

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Divya_024 • 2 years ago

Yupss thanx4 d sugestions,but due to lack of time sometimes it is difficult to

decide

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VINAY • 2 years ago> Divya_024

NEVER BOTHER ABOUT TIME . TRY TO SOLVE AS MANY

PROBLEMS AS U CAN BUT PUT AN EYE ON THE WATCH IF THE

PROBLEM IS TOO DIFFICULT JUST SKIP ON TO THE NEXT

PROBLEM. I WISH U THE BEST. THIS TIME U WOULD DEFINITELY

SUCCEED.

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > Divya_024

Thats why we hav suggested to complete the paper soon by

answering all the knows questions first, so you can devote time for

others.

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Spmanik83 • 2 years ago

according to previous exam's cut off marks, if you are sure about 180

answers, I think you should not attempt any guessing. But if you are not sure

you have to attempt otherwise you may loose this chance and will wait for the

next.........

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > Spmanik83

Leave previous exam cutoffs.Common exam is going to be different &

nobody knows how cut-off is going to be calculated.

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Sujithgovindu • 2 years ago

nice instructions.these are very helpful for students

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vivek • 2 years ago

Thanks for these instructions..

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avtar • 2 years ago

how much marks required to qualify in exam

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > avtar

Qualifying marks r not revealed b4 any exam.Do ur best, attend as

many correct questions as possible

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annuradha • 2 years ago

can any1 tell me about the call letter.....i am unable to download it......ibps

clerical exam is on 27th nov....how many days before vil v receive the call

letter at our residence....

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Bank Exams India • 2 years agoAd m i n > annuradha

You hv to download it.Call letters wont be sent via post

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Ramuniverse007 • 2 years ago

Ofcurz u must take calculative risks but the positve impact of such risks

comes only when u hav practised thoroughly.

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Vihnu • 2 years ago

Good suggestion.. I'll follow calculative risk..

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Priya Darshini18 • 2 years ago

i think the ibps committee should change the dates for the clerk exam

especially the 4th of december because there is one more exam which is

held on that day nationwide every year and thats MAT.we are 5 of us in our

groub giving both the exams -MAT & CWE ...And there are many of them in

the country.So i keep here a request to the ipbs committee to kindly act on

this situation and response to the plea of many such students..

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Sweetangel1409 • 2 years ago> Priya Darshini18

IBPS clerk exam is on 27th nov.

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Hcldellhc l • 2 years ago

hiiiii.....guys........my exam date is 27dec....evening shift..

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