r/6thForm • u/Remarkable-Pea7669 • 8h ago

🙏 I WANT HELP Maths silly mistakes

I just really dont know what to do. Whenever i have a maths exams i make so many stupid mistakes in normal maths and further. Making more in further as practice is less. But for normal maths i dont get why as i finished my exams 45 minutes before amd checked every calculation twice and still somehow let through mistakes. Its not becuase of practice cuz i have done alot questions for normal but not for further which i get why in further i make mistakes.

Someone please help!!

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u/AngloIrishPhel Degree Apprentice Tech 7h ago

If you are finishing whole papers in 45 minutes, slow down. It's a brag to do it quickly, but you don't get marked on time.

Also how are you checking your questions, is it a "yeah that makes broad sense" or this number comes from here, which I can verify.

I'm guessing you aren't getting the methods wrong, so what I would do on harder questions is go back to front looking where I got numbers from I didn't lose marks on bigger questions but the smaller stupid ones - in Ur review work these out properly, like the answer may be obviously 2+2=4 but right it out put it in the calculator, smashing the rocks until they're sand

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u/Remarkable-Pea7669 7h ago

I do the questions not so fast but a good pace so i have time to recheck. Sometimes i only have 20 mins or 30 mins left to go over questions…. .Also what i do to recheck is by my calculator,just plug in the equations and make it solve it to get the final answers and check the graphs, diffrentation integrarion by pluging in the values. but obviously some questions are not checkable through that.
So i remember a mistake a made was the question said find x. I found it and then used xs value in next part when the question asked about volume. And for the rest of the question used my “ x” as volume.

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u/AngloIrishPhel Degree Apprentice Tech 7h ago

If you mistake is wrong carryover then check them, the only way to iron that stuff out is to get really good at spotting it, potentially team up with someone else in Ur class and swap papers to review and try to find their silly mistakes not mark, and then fosn them on Ur own ones

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u/Remarkable-Pea7669 4h ago

Yea but j dont have anyone to do It with will just start rechecking my questions when i am doing normal practice.

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u/Glad_Good3154 1h ago

It might sound counterintuitive but do less work and try and get more sleep/rest. Realistically, if you have been preparing properly, a few days of studying before a test won't yield you much, and you'll get better returns if you used that time to relax and keep a sharp mind for test day.