The Dumbest mistake u've ever made in a Maths Exam (2 Viewers)

[what else?]

your all doing well. I lose an average of about 3 marks a test for rewriting the questin down wrong!

 

[Yiqun]

I wrote my answer upside down once and got it wrong

 

[tommykins]

your all doing well. I lose an average of about 3 marks a test for rewriting the questin down wrong!

Most of the time you should get 1-2 marks even if you write down the question wrong, markers are looking for the process more so than the answer.

 

[dno]

90-8 = 72, pretty stupid mistake, cost me an equal 1st rank in an exam. But some of u guys have worse ones. lol 2+2 = 8 cant beat that

 

[steffiiii]

in a really hard, frustrating and horrible exam that i thought i was failing I did about 3/4 of a page of working out to get:
t=ln(1/199)/-200
then i punched it into my caclculator, got a negative number and wrote (in a state of frustration because i was running out of time) "therefore i am wrong because t>0"

the teacher very kindly pointed out that t=ln(1/199)/-200 was in fact positive.

 

[ASNSWR127]

picking maths in the first place... (sob)

 

[dance2urownbeat]

well not sure about my dumbest, but i remember in year 9 i did something like

6a - a = 6

 

[gen.shottaffeta]

haha 2/8 = 2
except the funny thing is that his probably isnt the most dumb mistake i've made in a maths exam...i know i've done worse :S

 

[bored of sc]

Division of a polynomial question. Let's just say the quotient I got as my answer was x² + 6x + 8 and the remainder was 2. I added the remainder to the constant term i.e. (x² + 6x + 8) + 2 = x² + 6x + 10.

 

[clearnote]

i solved an equation and ended up with the correct answer: 2^x

and i had time so i re-wrote it i guess: 2

-_______-" I'm lucky the teacher marked the right one .. ToT