How to improve on practice exam marks and time?

[Ematuro]

Thats quite a good idea actually. When I do my further maths exams especially, I tend to just skip the chunky paragraph information and just look at it when I need some information. And with questions I like to just read the first half and assume the rest, leading to many marks lost on errors!

[paulsterio]

It is, believe me, you do not want to know how many times a question asks for the Normal and I give a Tangent and silly stuff like that

But considering that to get the question right, you actually gotta answer it! I think reading it is a good idea

Yeah and I understand what you mean about reading the first half, it's annoying, but I think the reason why underlining everything works is because when you're reading, you're assured that you read EVERYTHING and that you're concentrated not daydreaming as you're reading

[taiga]

In terms of a bound reference, if you just write down a list of your common mistakes (radians not degrees, decimal points, exact values//whatever small thing tends to get you), you will be a lot more cautious of them.