What has been your biggest exam mistake?

answering both a and b essay questions when i was only soposed to answer one of them..

Reply 41

username1341660

Taking a calculator (in my pencil case) to a non-calc exam. Luckily the invigilator noticed it right at the beginning and took it away.

Seriously, exam stress really does drive you to do some silly blunders!

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Reply 42

Arieisit

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-Forgetting formulae in physics exam.

-not remembering the exact word I wanted to use in an essay to make my point.

-confusing acid base properties in organic compounds in chemistry exam

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Reply 43

CallMeBatwoman

Read the clock wrong in my A2 English, left myself with 20 minutes to write a 40 mark essay (half the paper) :facepalm:

Bye bye A* :'(

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Reply 44

Datta10

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Skipping out a big mark question

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Reply 45

Professor L

Original post by Arieisit

-Forgetting formulae in physics exam.

-not remembering the exact word I wanted to use in an essay to make my point.

-confusing acid base properties in organic compounds in chemistry exam

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I had that a lot with my History exams, which is annoying because all of the questions are basically essays!

Reply 46

Original post by AwkwardlyMeHD

Missed out two pages in my Science and found out just when I had to hand it in. Also, I realised that area of a parallelogram is base x height. But I didn't do it as height-I used a slanted side. GOD. and I also forgot to do the tree diagram thing. I just did it a random way.

Was this the biology unit two paper as I did exactly the same and turned the page over as they were saying times up. Never felt so dreadful.

Reply 47

Original post by Datta10

Skipping out a big mark question

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Yeh I left out the last six marker on bio. Silly me

Reply 48

Original post by Rakes

Taking a calculator (in my pencil case) to a non-calc exam. Luckily the invigilator noticed it right at the beginning and took it away.

Seriously, exam stress really does drive you to do some silly blunders!

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Oh dear you're lucky you weren't disqualified !!!

Reply 49

Original post by TheBluePianist

Accidently missing out the last page in the maths non calc which was worth 5 marks. Now I'm not sure if I secured an A*...and for geography I misread a question twice -_- and literally had no space to write a answer to a 4 mark question

OOOH no yeh I guess you could've done that seeing as it was actually on the reverse of the paper :/ hmmm

Reply 50

username1439610

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Worked on an answer on my maths exam but I thought it was wrong so crossed it out and put a random answer. Turns out my original answer was correct. Dumb mistake.
Also, I didn't see the back page on a Physics exam so I completely missed it out. Only found out when the invigilators were picking it up and my eye caught the back page of one of the papers. Weird cause the chemistry and biology papers didn't have a back page so I thought that the physics paper wouldn't either. Another stupid assumption.

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Reply 51

WaywardWriter

Forgetting to write the question I was answering on my additional paper, Although I'm not sure :/

Reply 52

an100

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missing out the last question as it was at the back of the page!

Reply 53

username1445684

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I always miss those really tiny questions.

5) Draw a line of best fit on the graph

Reply 54

themorninglight

Wrote outside the time frame given on my A2 History exam :facepalm:

Only realised after I'd written an entire paragraph and tried to rescue it near the end, but it was pretty bad.

Also I once spent 10 minutes integrating something in a C4 exam when the question clearly said to differentiate :lol:

Reply 55

mkeafnej31298431

Writing about how the cyclist changed gears...on a 6 mark question about terminal velocity. (Physics exam) Missing the eyebrows on a portrait (art exam).
:facepalm:

such an idiot.

Reply 56

benplumley

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Original post by CallMeBatwoman

Read the clock wrong in my A2 English, left myself with 20 minutes to write a 40 mark essay (half the paper) :facepalm:

Bye bye A* :'(

I've done that too. Presumably because of the stress of being in an exam room, I completely ignored the minute hand and only read the hour hand, and assumed it was the minute hand. I was amazed at how slowly time seemed to be passing until I realised what I was doing, and that I actually only had 5 minutes left, not 45. It still annoys me that it's not compulsory to display a digital clock face in exam rooms, they're so much easier (and faster) to read!

Reply 57

Audiology-Med