When completing a past paper or prelim paper it is important for you to do an analysis of where you went wrong. Use the list below to see where your weak areas are and start working on them, but don’t forget all the other areas too.
| Mistake | No. of ocassions | Content statement |
|---|---|---|
| Wrong units | ||
| Did not understand question | ||
| Did not read question carefully | ||
| Wrong maths | ||
| No summary of question | ||
| No units | ||
| Wrong Formula | ||
| Had not revised this section | ||
| Wrong substitution | ||
| Wrong value for quantity | ||
| lack of working | ||
| changing units wrongly | ||
| significant figures | ||
| m/c wrongly recorded | ||
| no direction on vectors | ||
| failure to spot importance of vectors | ||
| leaving out a question | ||
| wrongly transcribing a number | ||
| poor/ missing explanation | ||
| wrong facts | ||
| wrong diagrams | ||
| not getting data from data sheet | ||
| powers of 10/ prefixes/sci-notation | ||
| ran out of time | ||
| lack of information esp on diagram | ||
| wrongly rearranging formulae | ||
| not using data book/ making up eq! | ||
| selecting the wrong equation | ||
| prefixes | ||
