Originally Posted by Ali Mallah

No, the passing criteria is still 50%. Once the errors in question paper were reported to SPSC through emails and media coverage, Panel of experts from academia was appointed by SPSC to rectify the answer keys. Grace marks were given to all candidates for only 3 questions which were cancelled due to wrong options i.e. Largest Galaxy, Airship Hindenberg incident etc, while for 6 other questions, keys were corrected. In some questions having doubts or double answers, both answers were considered correct in order to facilitate candidates. Like shergarh & meri kot both answers were accepted similarly stratosphere n troposphere and for largest delta question India and Bangladesh were considered as right.
So nobody can say that 09 grace marks have been granted rather 09 Questions/Answers were modified which benefited many candidates who were just below 50 marks.