Beware of making these mistakes while taking a test

How many times have you walked away from a test or exam paper thinking or saying aloud?

• I wish I had more time!
• Oh, now I know the correct answer! Why didn’t I think of it just now?
• I shouldn’t have spent so much time on that question!
• How could I have missed the last page of the paper?
• Why didn’t the questions that I prepared so hard for appear in the paper?

If the above sounds familiar to you, then you are not alone.

Top 20 Mistakes

Here, we describe the top 20 mistakes that most students make when attempting a test or exam paper, and how to overcome them.

1. Spotting Questions
2. Cramming Too Much Information Into Memory
3. Panicking Before Or During A Paper
4. Arriving Late For A Paper
5. Failing To Scan Through The Questions Once
6. Failing To Allocate Time For Each Question
7. Starting With The Most Difficult Question
8. Jumping Straight Into Answering A Question Without Proper Planning
9. Misinterpreting A Question
10. Producing An Incoherent Answer
11. Poor Writing Style
12. Not Sure How To Start Or End An Essay
13. Writing Too Much Or Too Little
14. Failing To Answer All The Unanswered Questions In The Last Few Minutes
15. Writing Illegibly
16. Reading And Writing Too Slowly
17. Forgetting To Answer Unanswered Questions
18. Failing To Check Your Answers
19. Failing To Bring Along Required Stationery Or Items
20. Forgetting To Write Down Your Names And Other Personal Particulars