How do you feel when you get answes wrong?

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Today were were factorising in maths and I got several wrong, but I knew how solve them. What I don't like is, that were are gigen only 3-4 minutes to do these, however if I do finish them, I don't have much time to check my answers. I get the majority of them right, but when I do gget them wrong I have either misread it or forgotton to check the answer. This makes me feel stupid as there are many people in the class (I am in the top class) who get all the answers right AND read them correctly! This isn't fair!

It's not that I have dyslexia or any other reading difficulty, it's just that I randomly tend to copy things down wrongly.
The good thing is though, that when I do my GCSE exams I will be given extra time to check and do all the answers.

This has been making me feel stupid, upset and annoyed - and I hate being told to calm down! That shows that the other people can't cope with the emotions that I feel. (They should imagine how I always feel!)

How do you feel in a situation like this? I feel angry becuase I know perfectly well how to do the question and what steps to take but I still get the question wrong! I sometimes come up with an inconclusive answer (in other subjects, not maths) whereas others have been doing the exact same thing as me and find an answer!

I'm annoyed at the moment. I just want to mute everyone else's voices so I don't have to hear them. (that would be great, wouldn't it?)

I misread and copy stuff down wrong, or write the numbers backwards, more often than i'd like (enough so that it is the difference between an a and a b in the class). For this reason, math has never been my strong subject. I get embarrased when i get the answers wrong for "careless mistakes" like these, as my teachers always called them (though i knew perfectly well that i was being careful, so i came to the conclusion that i wasn't very bright). These "carless mistakes" made me not want to put for the effort to learn math.

when I get answers wrong, that I KNOW I got right <not just any old answer, if I don't know it and I get it wrong, if I wasn't exposed to it I'm more angry about being asked it than I am about not being able to answer it> anyhow

whn I KNOW I got a question right and someone tells me I got it wrong first I feel the need to lash out at them, THEN I feel deep embarassment, I'm supposed to not make errors, but I do, and it pisseds me off, if I were doing my best I would have gotten it right, but I don't know HOW TO do my best

I nkow exactly how you feel. The thing is most of the time I get so convinced that I am right that when someone corrects me i feel angry. I also feel angry whenever someone asks me a question that i didn't know and end up getting it wrong. like this afternoon, we had a clinical studies case and the lecturer asked me to tell her what the normal temperature of a dog is. i gave the range of temperatures temperatures which is between 38-39 degrees celsius. she told me that I was wromg but my counter argument is that there is such a wide range of temperatures that you cannot just give one number. It pisses me off when everybody else also agrees that you are wrong since you end up feeling worse.