You can improve stupid mistakes!
I counted over 20 marks worth of stupid mistakes in my trial - and since the same thing happens every exam I decided to do something about it.
Basically - i've been doing practice papers since... when I mark them I write out on a separate piece of paper all my stupid mistakes... it's actually quite surprising as that there is a pattern! I always seem to do stupid things like '+' and '-' in very similar situations and stuff.
From 1998-2001 HSC exam I had a page of stupid mistakes for each. Now, I've summarised it down to 1.5 pages...
Learn from your mistakes.
Of course, I will still do stupid mistakes - but you'll be surprised how often you do the SAME stupid mistake if you write them down.
Anyway - i think i'm improving in terms of that - because it's always cost me soo many marks!
I counted over 20 marks worth of stupid mistakes in my trial - and since the same thing happens every exam I decided to do something about it.
Basically - i've been doing practice papers since... when I mark them I write out on a separate piece of paper all my stupid mistakes... it's actually quite surprising as that there is a pattern! I always seem to do stupid things like '+' and '-' in very similar situations and stuff.
From 1998-2001 HSC exam I had a page of stupid mistakes for each. Now, I've summarised it down to 1.5 pages...
Learn from your mistakes.
Of course, I will still do stupid mistakes - but you'll be surprised how often you do the SAME stupid mistake if you write them down.
Anyway - i think i'm improving in terms of that - because it's always cost me soo many marks!