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Striving for Accuracy and Precision
This quarter we learned about the different kinds of compounds and how to name them. One of the types of compounds we learned to name were ionic compounds. Last year we had already covered the topic of naming ionic compounds, therefore I felt comfortable doing so. However, there is always room for careless errors and overconfidence, and both could easily cause the deduction of points on a quiz or test.

I had first hand experience with careless error when Mrs. Knowles gave us a quiz on naming ionic compounds. I had overlooked two simple details that could have led me to a perfect score on the quiz. As annoying as this sounds, I honestly am not the type of person who would stress over the loss of two points. A twenty out of twenty-two would have sufficed in my eyes, and with my lazy mentality and flawed logic I would have settled with knowing that I could have gotten those two points if I was more attentive. This quiz was now done and ready to be lost and forgotten in a sea of quizzes and worksheets, but that was only my hopeful thinking.

Mrs. Knowles then told us that if we had not gotten a hundred percent on this quiz we would be made to take another one, and then another until we got a perfect score. Thankfully, I only had to retake the quiz once before reaching a hundred percent. This was not only a good opportunity for us to get good grades, but it also taught me to be more attentive while doing my work. It also taught me not to settle if I knew I could do better and to strive for accuracy and precision.