Eliminating stupid mistakes in Maths examinations

Ok, I have been doing past year papers and I always lose so many marks due to stupid errors. 

I am not joking when I say this…. despite striving real hard not to commit any careless mistakes, my work will still be riddled with them!

I am so worried this will pull down my grades in exams. Any advice on how to deal with it?

Student X

At times 1+1 just equals to 3 when you are under immense stress, so I usually advise my students not to inspect a recently completed problem for too long (and simply move on), because chances are, you might not be able to identify the simplest of errors when you are so invested in solving the question.

Come back to it when the entire paper is dealt with; in that sense when you look at the same problem once again, your state of mind is of a refreshed one. Hence a greater likelihood of you being able to detect your faults in a heartbeat. Just don't suffer a heart attack and get down to fixing things in a calmly manner.

Peace.

Best Regards,

Mr Koh