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Estimate your exam score precisely and understand how accuracy, mistakes, and negative marking influence your final outcome. Built for serious exam preparation.
This breakdown helps you understand score behavior under penalty-based marking rather than viewing marks in isolation.
Attempting more questions does not always increase scores. When accuracy falls below a safe threshold, negative marking penalties can outweigh extra correct answers.
Scores achieved with low accuracy fall into a high-risk zone, where wrong answers increase faster than correct ones and negative marking begins to reduce the net score.
Even a small number of incorrect answers can significantly reduce the final score in exams that follow strict negative marking systems.
This calculator helps you test different attempt levels and negative marking scenarios to identify where your score improves and where additional attempts start reducing it.
Negative marking rules differ across exams and can change your final score. Choose an exam below to see how wrong answers are penalized.
UPSC Prelims follows a one-third (1/3) negative marking system for incorrect answers in both Paper 1 (General Studies) and Paper 2 (CSAT).
For every wrong answer, one-third of the question’s marks are deducted, while unattempted questions carry no penalty.
Because of this system, accuracy is critical. This calculator helps estimate UPSC Prelims scores and test attempt strategies under the one-third penalty rule.
NEET follows a fixed penalty marking scheme. Each correct answer carries +4 marks, each incorrect answer results in −1 mark, and unattempted questions carry 0 marks.
Because NEET cutoffs are competitive, maintaining accuracy across all sections is more important than maximizing attempts.
The calculator shows how incorrect answers affect the final NEET score.
Most SSC exams use a one-fourth (1/4) negative marking system.
For every wrong answer, one-fourth of the question’s marks are deducted. The penalty is moderate compared to stronger systems, but repeated mistakes still reduce the score steadily.
A balanced attempt strategy usually works best for SSC exams. You can use the calculator to understand how many mistakes your SSC score can take before it starts declining.
Bank exams generally follow 0.25 (one-fourth) negative marking. Each incorrect answer results in a fixed deduction based on the question’s marks. Since sectional and overall cutoffs are often close, avoiding unnecessary mistakes becomes important.
In bank exams, controlled attempts with consistent accuracy usually produce better results than aggressive guessing.
The calculator helps analyze how penalties affect bank exam scores across different attempt levels.
State PSC exams follow different negative marking rules depending on the exam notification.
Some states use one-third negative marking, while others use one-fourth or fixed penalties. Because the rules vary, candidates should always verify the marking scheme before planning their attempt strategy.
The calculator can be adjusted to match the specific PSC marking pattern and help analyze scoring behavior accurately.
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Because not all questions follow the same marking rule, accuracy and awareness of the marking scheme are crucial.
The calculator allows you to simulate different penalty patterns and understand how mistakes affect the overall score.
This negative marking calculator is built to help competitive exam aspirants evaluate score behavior under penalties, not just calculate totals.
The calculator shows how accuracy directly influences final scores in exams with negative marking.
It helps identify the point where additional attempts begin to reduce the score due to negative marking penalties.
The calculations follow real exam patterns such as 1/3 and 1/4 negative marking used in major competitive exams.
Use the calculator to find an attempt level where the score remains stable instead of declining due to penalties.