How to avoid making silly mistakes

[NE2000]

Practice, practice, practice. It's normal to make mistakes. Exams/test conditions create a stressful atmosphere increasing the likelihood of a mistake. You need to ensure that stress doesn't overtake your knowledge, causing you to make mistakes. Practice helps with this

Make sure you make the most of your practice though. For example, don't waste practice papers doing them in the cars or in public transport; use them for one whole uninterrupted timed session to best simulate exam conditions. And analyse all your mistakes - ensure you fully understand why the right answer is right, and why the wrong answer is wrong, as well as determining how to preclude the same error from occurring again. Always be on the lookout for better methods when checking the solutions.

I'm referring to practice papers of course. No need to be so stringent with textbook questions.

+1.

Although you can sometimes finish a methods tech free in a single sitting in public transport (I only did this twice lol and didn't find it that productive due to noise and friends so probably should avoid it)

[humph]

Lolz, I remember doing a Spesh practise exam while queueing up at 6 in the morning for Muse tickets.

Good concert, that