How does Negative Marking work?

How does Negative Marking work?

Negative marking is a feature that enables deduction of marks or percentage of marks for an objective question in assessment when answered wrong.

Negative marking will not be applicable for questions that are not attempted.

It can be defined in terms of:

  • Marks - If all questions in an assessment have same number of marks allotted OR

  • Percent - if there are different marks are assigned to different questions in an assessment