How to reduce silly mistakes
Silly errors. My nemesis. They are ****. I don't have any words to explain the pain I felt when I realised that I solved a question incorrectly when I knew the correct answer. No one is immune to them. Not even God. They range from huge blunders to tiny tweeks that bring down your morale like anything.
Although they cannot be completely overcome they can be controlled. (This was my theory). So I tried some strategies to try and minimise my silly errors as much as possible.
1) Write as many steps as possible - When you leave nothing to the brain and everything is penned down the chances of making errors reduces like anything. This is the most important strategy that I still use.
2) Underline the shit out of the questions. My question paper was so much scribbled on that not even I could make sense of half the scribbling. Most of the scribbling was on the questions. It reduced my speed of reading the questions and hence I could not misunderstand the questions.
3) Eliminate the options - I used to eliminate even the most silliest of options. What I used to do is I used to identify the reason behind the wrong options. (All options were there for a reason ; Even the wrong ones). So if I knew that option B is twice the correct answer and D is half the correct answer and I would have got those as answers had I not multiplied or divided by 2. This was the final round of silly error correcting and nothing else was left after this.
Although they cannot be completely overcome they can be controlled. (This was my theory). So I tried some strategies to try and minimise my silly errors as much as possible.
1) Write as many steps as possible - When you leave nothing to the brain and everything is penned down the chances of making errors reduces like anything. This is the most important strategy that I still use.
2) Underline the shit out of the questions. My question paper was so much scribbled on that not even I could make sense of half the scribbling. Most of the scribbling was on the questions. It reduced my speed of reading the questions and hence I could not misunderstand the questions.
3) Eliminate the options - I used to eliminate even the most silliest of options. What I used to do is I used to identify the reason behind the wrong options. (All options were there for a reason ; Even the wrong ones). So if I knew that option B is twice the correct answer and D is half the correct answer and I would have got those as answers had I not multiplied or divided by 2. This was the final round of silly error correcting and nothing else was left after this.
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