Competitive Exam Marks

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you scored 125 marks on the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong?




Similar Riddles

What month of the year has 28 days?

Asked by Neha on 08 May 2022


I am quite hot but become too cold if you remove the first two letters. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 24 May 2023

I live in a bowl. I can swim. I have a tail. I also have fins and big eyes. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 01 Nov 2025


One day, John and his friends were playing around. Jacob hit something with a Pin and it popped. John's dad came into the room that very moment, but he wasn't mad. In fact, he was smiling. What did Jacob hit?

Asked by Neha on 03 Jan 2025

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

Asked by Neha on 12 Feb 2022

Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left hand? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long the number would be.

Asked by Neha on 24 Sep 2025


Considering the below equation:

V + II - VI = 10
IV - X + VIII = 20
IV - VII + VI = 30

Then, I + II + III = ?

Asked by Neha on 15 Nov 2024

Move three sticks of the spiral below to form a square.

Spiral to Square Puzzle

Asked by Neha on 15 Nov 2025

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Asked by Neha on 30 Dec 2023


Can you make the below equation true by using any three numbers from "1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15"?

( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 30

Asked by Neha on 18 Dec 2025

Hot Articles

Amazing Facts

Crossword puzzles

In the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.