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It's cute but doesn't make any difference. Add 4 to the score for every question and you get 9 or 0. The factor of 9 makes no difference so call it 1 or 0. Now your score is just the number of questions you got right, but the ranking is exactly the same as the original scoring system.

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Again, another person responding with the same trope of a response totally missing the fact that assigning 1 or 0 means an always positive score. You will never know the shame of receiving a negative score. It's part of the competition whether it was designed that way or not, it is exactly what teenage boys have turned it into. The concept of a negative score is a pretty good motivator.

It depends if skipping means questions not answered or if it means questions skipped to answer later questions. But either way it's more like playing gameshow host than making a meaningful exam.

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