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Do you count your marks up in exams?

Especially in non-essay based exams, do you count your marks up in exams, e.g. at the end of an exam ?

So that you have an idea of what % you're going to get.

or Am I the only one that does this?

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Reply 1

tomoli

I always go through and count how many marks I have dropped for certain - it helps me judge what grade I think I will get. I find that easier than counting the marks I think I have.

Reply 2

noodles!

I did, yeah. Thing is, I never actually used to remember once the results came so I could compare!

Reply 3

bekahchu

Yep I did - and still do :smile:

Reply 4

jkyng1

yes. but i only do that for maths. and that just made me depressed last friday.

Reply 5

EvenStevens

Haha, yeah.

I've always done this in maths and science exams.

With my maths mock GCSE, I was dead on!

With my actual GCSE, I did better than I thought :s-smilie:

Reply 6

cpj1987

I always used to do that with essay-based exams if I finished early and was bored; cuz I was accurate and finding the marks with essays.

Couldn't do it with non-essay-based questions though...

Reply 7

linkdapink

If I have time I'll always do it! It either reassures me, or makes me convince myself to go and look back over the ones that I wasnt too sure on AGAIN!

Reply 8

The_Goose

I used to do that in GCSE science exams but stupped soing it. I keep the marks of the question in mind but I try not to dwell on it. The main problem I have is spending too much time on short questions and leaving myself pushed at th the end. do it every time

Reply 9

SylverStrike

If I have enough time at the end then, yes, I do. It really encourages me to try harder with some of the marks I think I might've dropped.

Reply 10

The Sherminator

I do that as well! I thought it was only me... but good to know loads of people do!
In ALL my exams! Especially non-essay stuff, like Computing and Maths, and multi choice papers. Its fun but sometimes can be depressing!

Reply 11

vixky!

Haha yeah I did that on my politics exam. Mainly with the a & b questions, I think I got full marks for the a questions. But I had no clue about the essay questions!

Always haha!

I count up how many marks I think I've lost, which like other people have said, makes me have an idea of the maximum grade I could get.

But then this makes me depressed afterwards lol, because then I realise just how many mistakes I've done.