10 Common Mistakes Candidates Make During BECE And WASSCE
Let’s take a look at some common mistakes candidates make during examination. All of these mistakes are avoidable and when avoided could lead to the best grades.
1. Not Reading The Question Properly
Human brains have a habit of seeing what they want to see, and this is especially true in the high-pressure environment of the exam room. If you don’t read a question carefully enough, your brain can easily trick you into thinking that the question is asking you something that it’s not, leading you to write a completely different answer that doesn’t solve the actual question you’ve been set.
2. Leaving the easiest questions until last minute
However sensible it might seem to try to get the difficult questions over and done with first leaving the nice easy ones as a reward to finish with – this is not always a good idea. If you’ve identified questions you think you can answer relatively easily, do them first. This way, you quickly pick up marks ‘upfront’. If you start with the difficult questions, you may not answer them as well as the easier ones, therefore gaining fewer marks, and you may end up spending too long on them, meaning that you run out of time for answering the ones for which you could have got more marks. So, work through the exam paper and get as many marks as you can from the questions you find more straightforward, and tackle the trickier ones later.
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3. The mistake of providing incomplete answers to questions.
4. Answering questions without using the right vocabulary per topic and per subject.
5. Failing to plan answers before starting to answer them in the answer booklet. This is a terrible mistake to do.
The mistake of poor time management. Some students spend nearly all the time on one or two questions and are not able to attempt the rest as required.
6. Explaining answers or writing answers anyhow without the relevant examples, sketches, diagrams, etc.
7. The wrong numbering of answers leads to mix-ups and interchange of question numbers for answers.
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8. Failure to read the instructions before attempting questions.
9. Choosing the wrong questions, answering the difficult questions first, or deviating from the expected answers.
10. Giving up too early due to stress or fear.
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