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BirdKiller
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Last Edited: 2013-01-18 20:04:58
January 18 2013 20:01 GMT
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On January 19 2013 03:33 Recognizable wrote:
Got a 5.7/10 for latin, which means I improved my grade by 42 percent compared to my last translation. Happy with this, hoped for higher, but I knew that would've been unrealistic. 8.0/10 for Math. Was aiming for at least an 8.5 or higher, it is however higher than I expected because the test went so abysmal. Decent results, I'll just try to improve on the things I need to improve upon. You learn a great amount of things during tests. It is the only time you really look critically at your mistakes.


I disagree with tests being the only time where you would look critically at your mistakes. In mathematics, you need to look critically at ALL of your mistakes, whether it occurred in class, homework, or whatever else. Some mistakes you can easily dismiss as being human (ex: 2 + 3 = 6) but a lot of mistakes, from my experience in math, require more thought and correction (What made you think of the wrong answer? What was the correct answer? How/Why is that the correct answer? Why didn't I think of that correct answer? Was my thinking far off or does it just need tweaking?)

Also, you shouldn't be learning anything from taking tests. That's generally a sign that you did not either study well or came into the classroom lacking sufficient knowledge. There are some math tests written by few professors that makes students "build up" their current knowledge to create a new one, but those are rare. I would say being reminded of something that you learned but blanked out during testing is really the only thing you should learn from tests.
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Netherlands1552 Posts
January 18 2013 20:52 GMT
#22
Some mistakes you can easily dismiss as being human (ex: 2 + 3 = 6) but a lot of mistakes, from my experience in math, require more thought and correction (What made you think of the wrong answer? What was the correct answer? How/Why is that the correct answer? Why didn't I think of that correct answer? Was my thinking far off or does it just need tweaking?)


I agree but the bolded part is where most of my mistakes right now are coming from. Forgetting to read the question right, forgetting to carry over pi, forgetting to multiply one variable with minus one, forgetting to show that yes the graph really does go through (0.0), misreading the question and calculating the volume when the graph circles around the x-axis instead of the y-axis. What I've learnt is that I shouldn't speed read. This is great when they give you a page of information during History and you have to only find the important things, but during math I really need to read the question carefully. For example, I tried to solve something by hand which should've been done with the calculator. I also need to pay more attention to all my algebraic steps and try to find some sort of routine that eliminates mistakes. Before the test I just never saw these mistakes as significant. Altough I make them all the freaking time, but really it costed me so much that I've realized that this is something I should focus on. Apart from that I didn't learn new material, but the questions were definitely not in proportion to the homework questions so they forced me to think a little bit deeper about the matieral.
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