Striving+For+Accuracy+and+Precision

//Do you turn in sloppy or incomplete work? Are you more anxious to get rid of the assignment than to check it for accuracy and precision? "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake." --Confucius//
 * Striving for Accuracy and Precision**

Very often when I take tests in different classes, I run out of time when answering questions, and I don't have time to check over my answers. In such cases, if I get questions wrong because of the fact that I didn't have time to check them over, my excuse to myself is always "it's not my fault I didn't have time to check over my answers, there were too many questions!", or something of the sort. However, if I do finish a test before the time is up, and have extra time to check over my answers but I choose not to do so, and then find, after the test is graded, that I made careless errors due to not checking over my answers, then I have only myself to blame for being more anxious to "get rid" of the test than to check it for accuracy and precision.

On the topic 2 bonding test, I made many careless errors due to the fact that I didn't check over some of my answers even though I had the time to do so.



In the question above (scanned from my test), I answered the question incorrectly because I made a careless error and didn't check the question over. At the time that I was taking the test, I knew that covalent bonds were stronger than hydrogen bonds, but I still carelessly circled C as the correct answer. If I had checked over this question, I would have immediately noticed this mistake, however I didn't take the time to check it over.

Similarly to the mistake that I made in question 8, if I had checked question 12 (above; also scanned from my test), I would have noticed the careless error that I had made. I wrote down that "nitrate" is "N" (N is actually nitrogen), when I knew that "nitrate" is actually "NO3". I was probably rushing through this question, which is what led to this mistake.

I corrected these mistakes in the test corrections that I wrote up. I also learned from this experience; in the future, when I have the opportunity to do so, I will always check over my answers, no matter how easy the question seems. Checking over my answers, and doing questions carefully instead of rushing through them when they seem easy are two great ways to strive for accuracy and precision.

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