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CLAT Pattern: Answer Every Question, Ignore The Negative Marking

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  • CLAT Pattern: Answer Every Question, Ignore The Negative Marking
  • By CLATapult
  • December 22, 2012
  • 1:57 pm

Tanuj Kalia

Everyone would like to live in a perfect world. Perfect world for me in CLAT will be where the law of averages works.

What is the law of averages? It’s this: if I toss a coin 10 times; heads should turn up 5 times and so should tails. It’s a very fair law. As fair as a coin toss.

Consider this for CLAT now:

Out of 200, I answer 120 questions confidently. Am confused about 40. I don’t have a clue about the next 40.

The ‘confused 40′ mean questions where I can eliminate at least 1-2 options out of the 4 available (a, b, c and d). Am still confused about the remaining 2-3 options.

The ‘no-clue 40′ mean question where I can’t eliminate any of the options. I have no clue; I can’t even eliminate any of the options.

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So there are 40 no-clue questions. I mark all of them C. Because C stands for cool.

Ideally, in a perfect world, out of 40, there should be 10 questions with the answer option C.

(10 questions should have A as the correct option, 10-B and 10-D). That’s what a perfect question paper is.

So by answering 40 no-clue questions and getting 10 answers right, I secure 10 marks.

For the 30 wrong answers I loose 7.5 marks. (-.25 for each wrong answer).

I still gain 2.5 marks! (Did I do my maths right?)

In a non-perfect world, even if I can cancel-out one option, I will DEFINITELY mark that and not worry about the negative marking.

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So it makes sense to answer all the questions. Including the no-clue questions. Ignore the negative marking!

This is my personal take. What’s yours?

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You’ll get more of such strategy based inputs on enrolling for any of our courses.

PS- Not every strategy needs to be followed. Depends on what you find true and right.

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Read more:

5 little things that can make a big difference in CLAT

How to take multiple breaks during the 2 hours of CLAT

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3 thoughts on “<b>CLAT Pattern</b>: Answer Every Question, Ignore The Negative Marking”

  1. Suraj Singh
    December 22, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    Cool Idea …. Dude 🙂
    I was just thinking about this……….

    Reply
  2. rohit maloo
    January 27, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    how to get mock test from your site

    Reply
  3. ashutosh tiwari
    March 14, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    For issue of current i’m confuse… So, i want to know with is a static g.k and and which issues will ask in clat 2013… Mins forcing point… Just like a example in bilateral issue which country is important…etc…

    Reply

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