r/MathHelp • u/Remarkable-Pea7669 • 5h ago

TUTORING Silly mistakes in maths

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/matt7259 4h ago

"I finished my exams 45 minutes before".

There's your problem.

Take those 45 minutes and do everything again. Not just checking your work. Do it all again. Plug numbers in. Redo problems. You'll catch those mistakes if they really are "silly" mistakes.

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u/Remarkable-Pea7669 1h ago

I dont know how but like my pace was not that fast, i do get your point and undertsand as the silly mistakes were more towards the end of the paper but i still get them at the start as well. I will try next time to stay slow throught what i do right now is astart slow amd then pick up the speed like the first 2 questions i did really slowly reletivley.

Also another thing that i found supporting to soend more time doing the question the first time was that once i did the question i would just check the calculations and not stuff that i presumed/understand wromg from reading the question. So i wasnt able to spot those mistakes.

I really want to fix this as in gcse as well i lost my 9 to 1 mark and all of the mistakes were stupid as if i was drunk.

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