How to Avoid Typical Silly Mistakes Students Make in Exams

Pooja is an exceptionally smart kind when it comes to academics. She needs barely a couple of hours to perfectly prepare for tests, can recite poems from memory and can solve most practical questions in her math and science tests. One would easily think she must score a lot of 100s in her exams, right? Except, she ends up being a bit far from the three-digit score. What is she doing wrong, you may want to ask. Here come those infamous ‘silly mistakes’ that your parents and teachers always warned you about and scolded you for. It is those few things that she does not manage to remember while writing the exam that took away her chance to score full marks.

Pooja is not alone in this. There are several students across the globe who lose out on marks because of careless or silly mistakes that can be eliminated only with a few steps taken in the direction. We put together some extremely useful tips for you to ponder upon and refer to, as and when you are to appear for exams:

1. Do not be in a hurry to complete the exam and run

You have to be aware of the fact that the maximum number of mistakes made happen in a state of unnecessary hurry. There is no way you can make any unwanted mistakes if you have maintained your calm and composure through the entire length of the exam.

 2. Revise as you go through with the exam

We know that is a tough thing to do when we have loads of questions to answer. But believe us when we say that it is actually saving your time. When you check your answers as you go, you will require lesser time in the end for revision and the scope of having committed mistakes lessens by half.

 3. Keep some time in the end for revision too

We ask you to do this since there could be questions that you could have left out from the question paper. By keeping ten minutes aside for the revision of the entire exam in the end, one could avoid grave as well as silly mistakes liking the one mentioned above and others like marking answer serial numbers wrong or mismatching questions with answers.

 4. Check stuff like the date, question numbers, your name on each sheet

Though a very rare occurrence, writing the wrong serial numbers for questions and putting in wrong dates can get a lot of marks deducted from your answer sheet. Also, make sure you have written your name in every supplementary sheet you take. You may also want to check if you have written all the answers in the correct number and order.

 5. Spellings and labelling

Another important aspect of avoiding minor mistakes in exams is to check for incorrect words and spellings at different places in the answer sheet. This way you will find spelling mistakes if any, making your answer complete.


Now that you know some of the most important things to look out for. You may now go forward with these recommended tips and tricks in mind and be sure that you can score the best marks possible!

How to Look For The Best Textbook Solutions

In the midst of several options and choices, we often pick up things that we do not need, or want. The very fact that we have so many options makes us dizzy with expectation, hence hindering us from making the ideal choice. Why is it that, even in the presence of a real requirement and presence of the best options, we cannot make the right choices? The answer is simple. It is the lack of proper information that makes us grab randomly at the choices most prominent, without paying heed to our requirement.

Why are we mentioning this here? Because we are going to discuss the availability of several types and categories of textbook solutions for students today. Textbooks solutions started out being just another medium of revision, which students used to take their preparation slightly further. But with the increase in its popularity, the use of alternative textbooks authored by experienced writers like RD Sharma and HC Verma has gone up.

These textbooks are designed to give students a one-stop solution for all their revision, practice and improvement purposes. A lot of students, however, are unable to make full use of these textbooks and their solutions, simply because they do not which book to use for which subject. Here is a brief list of suggestions for students of CBSE board, on how to select the right textbook solutions:

1. The author matters

Just taking the help of any author for a particular subject might not give students the best result. Looking at the prescribed textbooks at school may give you an idea about which author would be most similar, and as a consequence, more useful.

2. Make use of online solutions for more options

In addition to the textbooks, the solutions are an important participant in your preparation. Go online and find out which textbooks have the most reliable solutions available. Without the availability of solutions, the textbook questions cannot suffice.

3. Look for the most comprehensive solutions

Once you have found the most appropriate solutions, check whether the solutions available are enough to clear your doubts and queries. Only when you understand the entire method of solving a particular sum or problem can your preparation be on the right track.

4. Look for different versions of the same textbook solutions

Once you have found the above mentioned solutions, try looking for possible alternatives that are as satisfying. These varying solutions might just tell you different ways to solve the questions and increase your knowledge base, in the process.

Additional tip: Practice regularly

Just buying the textbook and copying their solutions onto word files won’t make you perform well in exams. Students need to practice from the textbook and make sure they are in step (or maybe ahead) of their class, as far as preparation for tests and exams are concerned. Only when you have put in enough practise into these textbook solutions can you reap full benefit of the same.