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NLC India Exam Score Normalization Guide

The document provides information about score normalization for candidates who take an exam across multiple shifts for the same post or course, as the question papers and difficulty levels may vary between shifts. It explains that normalization is done by taking the shift with the highest average score as the base and adjusting scores from other shifts using standard deviations to make them comparable. Guidelines are provided for determining the base shift and for dealing with ambiguous questions before performing the normalization.

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NLC India Exam Score Normalization Guide

The document provides information about score normalization for candidates who take an exam across multiple shifts for the same post or course, as the question papers and difficulty levels may vary between shifts. It explains that normalization is done by taking the shift with the highest average score as the base and adjusting scores from other shifts using standard deviations to make them comparable. Guidelines are provided for determining the base shift and for dealing with ambiguous questions before performing the normalization.

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NLC India Limited

(‘Navratna’ - Government of India Enterprise)


RECRUITMENT CELL / HR DEPARTMENT / CORPORATE OFFICE
Block-1, Neyveli-607 801, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu

Information to Candidates on Score Normalization

1.0 Need for Normalization in Exam


Exam pertaining for a particular post/course could be spread across multiple shifts which will
have different question paper for each shift. The normalization is to be done by considering
the difficulty level of each set, since the questions may be different in different sets and
difficulty level of a particular set may be different from other sets.
Hence the normalization of scores need to be carried out for all the candidates who had written
the exam, across shifts for the same post/course.
2.0 Normalization Method
The following data values to be calculated for every shift for all the candidates who have
appeared in the exam for the same post:

Is the SD of the shift with the Highest Average Score taken as Base for
normalization (Criteria for choosing the base for normalization is generally taken
S2 as the shift with ‘Highest Average’ of raw scores)

S1 Standard Deviation for the corresponding shift (to be scaled to S2)

X Raw score of a candidate

Xav Simple average of the Shift

Average corresponding to shift with highest Average (taken as Base for


Yav normalization)

Normalized Score for each candidate (Xn) = Xn = (S2 / S1) * (X - Xav) + Yav

Criteria for choosing the base for normalization is generally taken as the shift with ‘Highest
Average’ of raw scores. Only exception is made if this shift (with highest average) has far
less number of candidates as compared to other shifts. In that case we take the next shift
with ‘highest Average’ as base for normalization.
70% of the average attendance is the limit. Any value below this should not be considered for
the base.

3.0 Treatment to Ambiguous / invalid question i.e. Full Marks or Proration is done before
Normalization.

DGM / MPP & RECRUITMENT

REGD. OFFICE: No. 135, EVR Periyar High Road, Kilpauk, Chennai- 600010
CORPORATE OFFICE: Block-1, Neyveli-607 801, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu
Website: [Link] / email: [Link]@[Link] / Phone: 04142-255135.

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