 Hello viewers and aspirants welcome to Shankar Ayes Academy's special session in the series cracking UPSC the right way If you are someone who is going to attend problems 2021 which is happening tomorrow then this video is for you as You are aware in the series of cracking UPSC the right way We are addressing the common questions and doubts that the UPSC aspirant has while preparing for the examination So in the same lines today, we are going to address The issue of negative marking We are going to see how to minimize negative marking and how to maximize your score in prylums You have to remember that prylums is an examination where getting Right answers is as important as avoiding the wrong answers Why because in prylums we have one third negative marking. This means if in a set of four questions You attend one question correctly and the remaining question incorrectly Then your net score will be still 0 only because of this one third negative marking So in this session, we are going to see a Technique which will help you to minimize your negative marking and maximize your score in the prylums in the available time and I have named this approach as a Three-round approach or a three-fold approach In this approach, we are going to process the prylums question paper in at least three rounds Now let us get into round one now in this round one anyway, you are going to go through all the questions Now while going through the questions, you will come across those questions to which you know the answers with 100% surety that is you know for sure That the answer which you are saying is the correct answer So to such kind of questions, we are going to mark the final answer in the OMR sheet and along with marking the final answer in the OMR sheet, you are also going to take a pencil and mark a dot Beside the question number or below the question number So if a question is marked with a dot then that means you have already attended this question and you know The answer to this question with 100% surety Now while going through such questions, you'll also come across the questions to which you know the answers with 50% surety only So for such kind of questions, you're going to take a pencil and mark those questions with a star And remember we are not going to mark the final answer in the answer sheet as of now We are going to retain this question as it is Now then you'll also have questions where There is no marking of dot or star will come to these kinds of questions in our round three So in the round one, we are going to mark the answers in the OMR sheets to those questions to which we are 100% sure that the Option which we have chosen is the correct answer So with this let us move on to round two Now in this round two, we are only going to focus on those questions which we have marked with a star Now these are the questions to which you are 50% sure of the answer That means you have already eliminated two options Let us take an example assume that there is a two statement question and the given options are option A1 only Option B2 only option C both 1 and 2 option D neither one nor 2 And you know for sure that statement one is right And here the question also asks you to choose the right statements. So in such a scenario We know that statement one should be in the answer So because of that our option could either be option A1 only or option C both 1 and 2 And we have eliminated options B and D here So this gives you the 50 percentage probability of attending this question correctly Now in such a scenario before marking The right answer in your OMR sheet. You are going to go through the statement two once again And you're going to conclude whether that statement is right or wrong if you are able to conclude it then well and good But if you still are confused whether that statement is right or wrong then take an intelligent Guess and take a chance and mark either AS correct or CS correct Remember here you are taking an intelligent guess and not a wild guess and you are taking a calculated risk here So prylums is a qualifying examination That means marks in your prylums will not be considered for your ranking and that is why it is okay to take a bit of Chance so we have come to the end of round two now Now we have come to round three now in this round three We are only going to go through those questions which has not been marked with a star or a dot So let us assume you have some 20 to 25 questions in this category Which doesn't have a star or a dot so that means these are the questions to which you have no known answers Or these are the questions in the areas which you do not know anything about or you only know something So in such types of questions what we are going to do is we are going to take a Educated guess or a intelligent guess. We are not going to take any wild guess because it doesn't help But your bottom line is that in this round We are only going to attend 10 to 15 questions because if it goes beyond 15 questions Then your chances of enhancing your negative marks is quite high so We are only going to go through 10 to 15 questions and mark 10 to 15 questions in the final answer sheet using a Well educated guess So with this we have seen the three rounds in the first round. We are going to attend those questions To which we are 100% sure then the second round Here we are going to attend the questions to which we are 50% sure and the third round We are going to attend those questions to which either we are 33% sure or the questions where we can use our intelligent guessing technique Now before implementing this technique, I want you to remember three factors first one Practice this technique today itself because tomorrow is prelims 2021 examination and you don't want to go in blind and Use this technique for the first time in the examination hall. So practice this technique Using a mock test or a previous equation paper Secondly while guessing does not work. So always take an intelligent and educated guess And the third and more important one Mark answers in the OMR sheet carefully without any hurry Before marking the answer make sure it is the answer you want to mark Because once you mark it you cannot change it so keep all these ideas in mind and Implement this technique in tomorrow's examination and I hope using this technique you can maximize your marks in preliminary examination That brings me to the end of this session. I Wish all of you all the best and I'll meet you in our next session. Thank you