Math Common Errors

These are the common but avoidable mistakes in Mathematics:

• Getting the working right but writing the answer wrongly.
• Not reading the instructions.
• Not eliminating/taking out the wrong answers (in MCQs).
• Trying to solve the whole question in your head before writing it down on paper.
• Failing to check the 'possibility' of the answer.
• Not being neat and structured in your working. Doing your working all over the place.
• Not using models to understand the question.
• Writing certain numbers incorrectly. (For example, a ‘0’ might look like a ‘6’)
• Not finding out what the question is really asking for.
• Not writing the correct units.