Use this negative marking calculator to calculate your overall marks after deducting the negative marking.
Negative Marking Calculator
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What is a Negative Marking Calculator?
Negative Marking Calculator is an online academic calculator that helps the students to calculate their final marks after deducting the negative marking from their initial score.
This tool is quite popular and used by millions of students and aspirants worldwide. Due to extremely high population, the level of competition is increasing rapidly. That’s why to reduce the aspirants from random guessing and choosing the right candidate for selection, the concept of negative marking came into existence.
Different exams used different negative marking scheme to calculate the final score of the students. For example, the JEE exam deduct 1/4 mark from the marks you receive for a correct answer, similarly UPSC deducts 1/3rd of the marks for each incorrect answer.
Some of the national level exams which uses negative marking are:
- UPSC
- NDA
- SSC
- JEE
- NEET
- BPSC
Using this negative marking calculator, you can easily compute your final score given you have the idea of your total questions attempted and total incorrect answers.
How to Use the Negative Marking Calculator?
- Visit the negative marking calculator page
- Enter total questions that came in the examination
- Now, enter the maximum marks of the examination. This will help you know the mark alloted to each question
- After that, enter the total questions attempted by you
- In the last, enter the total incorrect answers answered by you
- Now, select the negative marking ratio (This data can be found on your question paper)
- After all these, click on the ‘Calculate’ button to know your final score after deducting the negative marking
How to Calculate the Marks?
To calculate the final score after deducting the negative marking, you should have the information about maximum marks of the examination, total questions appeared in the exam, total questions attempted by you, total incorrect answers, and the negative marking ratio.
Calculate Marks Per Question
Marks Per Question = Maximum Marks/Total Questions
Calculate Correct Questions
Correct Questions = Questions Attempted – Wrong Attempted
Calculate Marks for Correct Questions
Marks from Correct Questions = Correct Question x Marks Per Question
Calculate Marks for Incorrect Questions
Negative Marks = Incorrect Question x Marks Per Question x Negative Marking Ratio
Now, to calculate the final marks, simply subtract the negative marks from correct question marks
Final Score = Marks from Correct Questions – Negative Marks
Solved Example
Example: Sachine just gave his first JEE exams. The maximum marks is 300 and total questions are 90. Sachin attempted 75 questions out of which 60 are correct. Calculate the final score of Sachin.
Maximum Marks = 300 Marks
Total Questions = 90
Let’s first calculate the mark alloted to each question = Maximum Marks/Total Questions = 300/90 = 3.33
Total Questions Attempted = 75
Total Correct Answers = 60
Correct Answers Marks = Correct Answers x Marks Per Question = 60 x 3.33 = 199.8
JEE Follows 1/4 negative marking scheme.
Incorrect Marks = Incorrect Answers x Marks Per Question x Negative Marking Ratio = 15 x 3.33 x 1/4 = 12.49
Final Marks = Correct Marks – Negative Marks = 199.8 – 12.49 = 187.31
Thus, the final marks scored by Sachin is 187.31 Marks.
Tips to Avoid Negative Marking
- Before the commencement of the examination, you’ll get 15 minutes to read the exam instructions. Don’t waste this time in daydreaming and read the instructions carefully
- If you are not sure about any question, just skip the question and move to the next one. This will ensure that you get the maximum marks you deserve to get
- If you have a slight doubt on any questions, then you can use the elimination technique to eliminate the options which are less likely to be correct. You can use logical reasoning and knowledge of the topic to rule out the wrong options