What eLitmus publishes about the pH test: sections, duration, marks, scoring and negative marking, plus original practice examples for each section.
According to eLitmus, the pH test often has three sections of twenty questions, is designed for two hours, and has 200 marks per section. It uses handicap-based negative marking whose exact mechanics eLitmus says are proprietary. Scores are valid for 2 years.
eLitmus runs the pH test, a hiring-potential test whose results companies that recruit through eLitmus use in selection. According to its official test-taker page, the test often has three sections (quantitative, verbal and analytical), currently with twenty questions each, so sixty in total. It is designed to be completed in two hours. The page also warns that this structure may change. Employers and publishers change their processes, and what you receive can vary by role, country and year, so treat your own invitation as the final word.
| Detail | eLitmus public information |
|---|---|
| Sections | Often three: quantitative, verbal, analytical |
| Questions | Currently 20 per section, 60 in total |
| Time | Designed to be completed in two hours |
| Maximum marks | 200 per section, 600 in total |
| Formulae | All required formulae are provided in the question paper |
| Delivery | Online, on a Windows machine only, in a special eLitmus safe browser |
| Score validity | pH scores are valid for 2 years |
| Fees, retake rules | Not stated on the pages read; not publicly confirmed here |
| Test dates | Run every few weeks across the country; schedule on elitmus.com |
eLitmus says your final score reflects not only how many answers are correct but also how hard those questions were. You receive an absolute score and a percentile. A percentile can change over time as more people take the test, even though your score does not. eLitmus also says its model weights skills for the job and company involved, and that it has identified seven major skills and two sub-skills across its questions.
The pH test also uses what eLitmus calls handicap-based negative marking. Its pages say the penalty depends on resources used, compared to the Duckworth-Lewis method in cricket, and that the exact mechanics are proprietary. In other words, it is not a flat deduction per wrong answer.
Many prep pages say negative marking only starts once more than 25 percent of the questions you attempt in a section are wrong. That claim traces back to a 2016 reply from an eLitmus forum administrator account on its community forum, which said a differential scheme applies "only if more than 25% of the questions attempted by the test taker are incorrect". The official test-taker pages do not repeat that threshold, they say the mechanics are proprietary, and the forum post is a decade old. Treat it as a historical rule of thumb, not a confirmed current rule.
Here is what it would mean if it still applied. Suppose you attempt 16 questions in a section: 25 percent of 16 is 4, so up to 4 wrong answers would fall inside the allowance. A fifth wrong answer would go beyond it. The point for preparation is that accuracy on attempted questions matters, and that random guessing across a whole section is the wrong habit to build.
eLitmus does not publish a topic list on the pages read, so the following are original examples of the kind of reasoning each section name suggests. Each answer has been checked.
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eLitmus says the test currently has twenty questions in each of three sections, so sixty in total. It also says the structure may change.
eLitmus says the test is designed to be completed in two hours.
Yes, eLitmus uses handicap-based negative marking, and says the exact mechanics are proprietary. A 2016 forum reply by an eLitmus admin account mentioned a 25 percent allowance, but the official pages do not repeat it.
eLitmus states that pH test scores are valid for 2 years.
eLitmus says the maximum is 200 marks in each section and 600 in total. Companies also see a percentile, which can change over time.
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