How to minimise negative marks in bank exams

The competition for bank exams is increasing day by day. At such every aspirant of bank PO exams must be careful about the every single question especially about the negative marking in bank exams. The negative marks in banks can make a great impact on your overall score in bank exams thus affecting final selection.

Generally negative marking is equal to the 1/4th of the marks awarded for correct answer. Thus if a question is of one marks if you attempt it wrong 0.25 marks is deducted from the total. Thus one must be careful about the negative marks. At such you should stay away from blind guessing as it is never going to help you. However you may guess an answer if you are able to eliminate the number of options given for a question to two. This is called intelligent guessing.

Now let us come to the steps needed to reduce the negative marking

1. Never guess an answer if you not sure of the guess.
2. Practise more and more questions, which will eliminate the chances of answers getting wrong due to haste.
3. Do not get lured for answering more and more questions. Remember that qualifying marks in each section is only 40% of total marks. Thus if you attempt about 70% questions correctly you can expect a call for interview. At such do not start guessing answers for more and more questions.
4. Once you have darkened a circle, then you should not change it later. Remember your first instinct has maximum probability of becoming true to what you have read.
5. Finally remember that every single number matters in final selection. Thus you should follow all the above mentioned tips to save your final score from the impact of negative marking.