Silly mistakes >:( (2 Viewers)

[Physicklad]

Yea maybe this is a stupid question but has anyone found an effective method/technique to minimise careless mistakes? One that worked for me was that I tried to fall into a rhythm when doing math and once I caught this wavelenght I could be pretty reliable. But has anyone got any other tricks that may be useful?

 

[Physicklad]

Carrotsticks? Got any ideas?

 

[obliviousninja]

This is purely up to practice. Its not rocket science

 

[obliviousninja]

I'd say make your working somewhat legible to yourself. So you don't make the mistake of accidently carrying over the wrong numbers.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Everyone mistakes them (even uni lecturers screw up their arithmetic from time to time), practice a-lot to minimise the amount of care-less mistakes you make.

 

[physchemnotes]

If you have time at the end of the test its always worthwhile redoing arithmetic-heavy questions to see if you made a mistake. Also simple tricks like differentiating expressions you have just integrated, recombining the partial fraction you just split up etc. reduce the time it takes to filter out mistakes.

 

[Speed6]

Careless mistakes are always my nemesis.

 

[HeroicPandas]

I'm strongly confident the problem lies with one's degree of concentration at each particular step (or maybe the general abilities to focus.)

The error I was making was thinking too far ahead, thereby losing focus on the current step, thus doing something like 3 x 3 = 6. So I fixed it by allocating all my focus on each step when I was studying at home to train the brain, nomsayin'.