<p>My math section is plagued with simple mistakes. Even though I finish it with 5 minutes left to review, I always miss one or two per section because I read x is 1/5 y not 1/5 of x is y.</p>
<p>Its the only thing thats stopping me from getting a good score on math. How do you prevent these mistakes, especially during the actual test because im taking the jan one.</p>
<p>never mind im gonna get the usual responses about taking your time.</p>
<p>Check each question as you go. Once you finish a question, quickly read it again and plug in numbers in the calc. It helped me more than going back at the end. Even with the checking while I go, I still have a few minutes at the end to go over everything again. Also, the more you practice, the more you will start to notice subtitles in the questions and follow them.</p>
<p>Practice first. Also, as drac313 said, check as you go. That way you don’t have to come back to that question and check it. Read the question a couple times and highlight key words. Look at the answer and make sure it makes sense. For example if it asked 1/5 of 20 is ? and you read 20 is 1/5 of ?, you will get 100. After you finish the problem, reread the question, and it should popout that you did something wrong.
Also I know you said this, but just pace yourself.
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<p>^Thanks guys. Those seem like good strategies. Taking off a couple seconds for each problem to make sure is better than reviewing it way later like I usually do.</p>
<p>Yeah again there’s really nothing new, but TAKE YOUR TIME.
I got a 720 the first time all because of stupid errors. I easily got an 800 my 2nd time.</p>
<p>I think the biggest problem for me was my ego. I finished the math sections in about 12-14 minutes and checked over only the hardest problems. I usually got the easy questions wrong because I went through them too fast. Now what I do is read the questions slower and more carefully and I check all the questions on the page I just finished before going on to the next.</p>