Sekizinci Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Soru Çözerken Yaptıkları Yanlışların Analizi

Studying for the High School Entrance Examination is one of the critical periods in students' lives. In this period, which coincides with the adolescence period, students are preparing for an exam that will affect their future lives. The students who solve many questions from Mathematics, Science, Turkish, History of Revolution and Kemalism, English and Religious Culture and Moral Knowledge courses naturally make mistakes. Determining the reasons of these mistakes provides an opportunity for students to learn from their mistakes. The aim of this study is to analyze what kind of mistakes the eighth grade students make in their problem solving works. In this context, a total of 257210 questions solved by 10 students preparing for LGS in 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 in all branches and 10705 mistakes were analyzed. Reasons of making mistakes were classified as lack of attention, lack of subject matter knowledge, process/method mistakes, and comprehension mistakes. Consequently, it was found that students mostly make mistakes in Mathematics, Science, Turkish and Religious Culture courses because they could not understand the questions. The most common reason of making mistakes in History of Revolution and Kemalism is lack of subject matter knowledve and lack of vocabulary in English. According the to the findings suggestions were developed for students and future researches. Keywords: Studying for LGS, Reason of istakes, learning from mistakes