Deleted Questions Procedure in CBT / Selection

Deleted Questions Procedure in CBT / Selection

 

Railway Board Letter No.  E(GP)2022/2/4 dated 26.10.2022 

(RBE No.134/2022) Click for download  & 09.06.2011 and

Railway Board Letter No.  E(GP)2022/2/4 dated 28.11.2022

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SN	Example	Applicable/ Not Applicable	Final Score calculation
1	Answered 150 questions or less than 150 questions, but the deleted question is not one of the attempted question	Not Applicable	Out of 150
2	Answered 150 questions and 5 questions of these have been deleted	Applicable	Out of 145 (recalculated out of 150)
3	Attempted 130 questions (out of required 150 questions) and 2 questions of 130 questions have been deleted	Applicable	Out of 148 (recalculated out of 150)

EXAMPLES

SN 1 - Answered 150 questions or less than 150 questions, but the deleted question is not one of the attempted questions:  

Candidate A answered 140 Questions. Out of 140 questions, 120 are Correct and 20 are incorrect.  His score is as follows.

	No. of Questions	Marks
Correct answers	120 x 1	120
Incorrect answers	20 x ⅓	Minus 6.67
Net Marks		113.33

Net score:  113.33 out of 150

 

 

 

 

SN 2 - Answered 150 questions and 5 questions of these have been deleted:  

Candidate B answered 150 Questions. Out of 150 questions, 141 are Correct, 4 are incorrect and 5 are deleted. His score is as follows.

	No. of Questions	Marks
Correct answers	141 x 1	141
Incorrect answers	4 x ⅓	Minus 1.33
Net Marks		139.67

Provisional Score:  139.67 out of 145 

Now recalculate the same for out of 150

145     -------------  139.67 

150     --------------   ?

= 150 / 145 x 139.67  = 144.48

So Net Score = 144.48 out of 150 

SN 3 - Attempted 130 questions (out of required 150 questions) and 2 questions of 130 questions have been deleted:  

Candidate C answered 130 Questions. Out of 130 questions, 100 are Correct, 28 are incorrect and 2 are deleted.  His score is as follows.

	No. of Questions	Marks
Correct answers	100 x 1	100
Incorrect answers	28 x ⅓	Minus 9.33
Net Marks		90.67

Provisional Score:  90.67 out of 148 

Now recalculate the same for out of 150

148     —----------  90.67 

150    —------------   ?

=150 / 148 x 90.67  = 91.90.

So Net Score = 91.90 out of 150 

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