A candidate for the Foundation Examination shall ordinarily be declared to have passed the examination if he obtains at one sitting minimum of 40 per cent marks in each paper and a minimum of 50 per cent of the total marks of all the papers.
A candidate for the Common Proficiency Test shall ordinarily be declared to have passed the test if he obtains a minimum of 50 percent marks, subject to the principle of negative marking, in a manner as may be specified by the Council from time to time.