Common Mistakes We Make Inside Examination Hall

It’s not only student but all of us at any stage of our life may commit mistake(s) which are often observed when we over run a task, not clear about what & how to do, over/low confidence, lack of knowledge or while performing without will, etc. but top of the list is when we apply short cuts.

Here are some common mistakes we make inside examination hall, which are concise after talking to many students, parents, educators and analyzing answers sheets.

So let us start with the most common one i.e. to start attempting answers without even completely reading question, observation say that may student not read or understand the questions completely and generally searches for a topic in a question which many times ends up as wrong quoted or quoting partial answers.

We generally start writing answer(s), in a light mode, without even bothering much about word and time limit assign to a question and ends with pressure mode. Many students takes too long to answer first or first few questions, which turns into unattempting of few questions or creates pressure while writing answer for last few questions, ending up either as incomplete answers or even unreadable answers for checker.

Many students submit their examination sheet before time without even reviewing that if we have attempt each question asked with best of our knowledge and have not missed any sub part, or have done correct labeling for each answer, also we never take pain to highlight keyword or make our answer sheet more presentable, making it easier for checker. Many students has accepts that double checking our answer sheet have helped us in reducing our silly mistakes.

Many of us get nervous, if we are asked to seat at first desk or the desk where invigilator is standing, also in most of the case it has observe that when invigilator gently reads our answer sheet, we get nervous and we may also lose our concentration, in such situations common thought comes in students mind are like. When will the invigilator go? How will I discuss answers if needed? Etc. In addition, other examination hall distraction(s), all these not only cut down our time but also lose our focus on answers we were quoting.

Quoting wrong factual or quantitative information e.g. wrong year, wrong formats, wrong questions labeling, wrong character name, wrong example, example(s) discussed by our educator to make us understand a concept better which are not to quote on answer sheet, wrong categories or sub categories etc. turning into wrong facts and losing our numbers even when we have quoted write description.

Many of us try to quote answers in your own words, which mostly end up in exceeding word limit, not writing answers to the point and most importantly missing of required keywords. It has also been observe many times that answers sheet are fill with meaningless, irrelevant or unwanted information, majorly due to lack of our expressing skills.

Leaving less space for a question or part of a question in hope to recall and write answers later. Leaving question for end and hoping it will not take much time to attempt. Taking too much time to decide which question to start first or to decide the order to attempt a question paper. All such situation either leads to wastage of time, omitting of answers or losing our numbers.

Not able to recall answers as while learning we have not connected a topic with real life implementations or we have not created movements to recall (remember) our answer i.e. either learning without understanding or direct learning and not learning to recall.

Last but not the least is our negative mind set and exam fear, which can be due to low confidence, less or no practice, subject fear, bad health, healthy competition, past experience, lack of resources, mood swings or our own perception, all have proven not to perform optimally as per our capability and preparation.