WHAT ARE THE PENALTY MARKS?

One of our dear reader asked about the penalty marks mentioned in the marksheets.Actually it is a heading under which penalty marks must be awarded.It is just a formal provision by UPSC that if they want to punish some candidte for not following the prescribed guidelines while answering the questions,he/she may be penalised.But this is just an ideal condition.In general no body as far as we know have ever got penalty marks in this exam.That is why in every marksheets one can see zero infront of penalty mark heading.