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Providing uncertainty quantification besides the predictive probability is desirable to reflect the degree of belief in the model\u2019s decision about a given input. Recently, Monte-Carlo dropout (MC-dropout) method has been introduced as a probabilistic approach based Bayesian approximation which is computationally efficient than Bayesian neural networks. MC-dropout has revealed promising results on image datasets regarding uncertainty quantification. However, this method has been subjected to criticism regarding the behaviour of MC-dropout and what type of uncertainty it actually captures. For this purpose, we aim to discuss the behaviour of MC-dropout on classification tasks using synthetic and real data. We empirically explain different cases of MC-dropout that reflects the relative merits of this method. Our main finding is that MC-dropout captures datapoints lying on the decision boundary between the opposed classes using synthetic data. On the other hand, we apply MC-dropout method on dataset derived from Bitcoin known as Elliptic data to highlight the outperformance of model with MC-dropout over standard model. 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