Reducing Careless Mistakes (1 Viewer)

[kazemagic]

Sup guys,
How do you minimise your careless mistakes? I make a crap load of them

 

[Carrotsticks]

Focus on EVERY single step, as trivial as it may seem. Many people, when it comes to calculations etc, go into 'automatic gear' or 'cruise control', and just mindlessly do the calculations without thought because it is so easy.

Kind of like doing something repetitively, you start doing it unconsciously because you are so used to it.

However, it is BECAUSE you are doing it unconsciously, that silly errors arise.

So concentrate on every single thing, regardless of how basic it may seem.

 

[Kurosaki]

Mark Urself harshly, Eg, even when u deserve some marks for working it take all e marks in the question away.
This will encourage u to not make them.
Also, physical punishment works for me
Also manually do every step, don't skip any working even if it's obvious

 

[GoldyOrNugget]

For every line of working you do, reread it and concentrate really hard on understanding exactly what you did. Whenever possible, substitute values back in. If your working feels flaky at all or you think that you might have made a silly mistake, redo the whole question without referring to your previous solution. For questions such as 'minimise this value', check values on both sides to make sure it is indeed the minimum. For any simple arithmetic things, do them in your head and also do them on the calculator, and cross check the answers -- this avoids both stupid mental arithmetic errors and typing-into-calculator-wrong errors. Reread the question at the end to make sure you answer exactly what it asks.

 

[kazemagic]

thankss guise much appreciated