Step I Help with Minimizing STUPID Mistakes

[Mastitis]

Hi Guys,

I am in my 4th week of studying for the beast (3.5 weeks left). When I started doing questions I found myself making very stupid mistakes and figured they would be minimized by just doing more practice questions. However, I am still making very stupid mistakes...ex. thinking of basic pH as LOW or reading a graph axis unit wrong. About 25% of the questions I get wrong, the user averages are like over 70%.

Anyone have any strategies on how to stop losing points on these easy questions...?

 

[Cliff Huxtable]

I do the same thing. Maybe its lack of sleep?

 

[RisingSun]

Kind of unrelated but, damn, your school give you a long time to study!

It may sound corny, but take a deep breath before starting in on each question. It may also help to browse over the answers before reading the question in order to orientate yourself.

 

[ENThopeful]

Hi Guys,

I am in my 4th week of studying for the beast (3.5 weeks left). When I started doing questions I found myself making very stupid mistakes and figured they would be minimized by just doing more practice questions. However, I am still making very stupid mistakes...ex. thinking of basic pH as LOW or reading a graph axis unit wrong. About 25% of the questions I get wrong, the user averages are like over 70%.

Anyone have any strategies on how to stop losing points on these easy questions...?

im in that 30% as well. I tried reasoning through every single answer choice and that has cut down alot of my mistakes, but hasn't completely eliminated them.

 

[ZagDoc]

Suffer from the same problem, especially in questions where there's two very similar answers and completely didn't "see" the more correct answer. I wonder if I have a central scotoma or something.