Your priority is to get back on the correct line as soon as you can. The longer you leave it, the harder it is to correct. If you correct it early enough, the impact on your exit speed can be small; leave it to the end, and it'll affect your speed much more -- for example, your speed in a drainage ditch is pretty low.
Go wider, slow down, turn back in
You can widen your line, which reduces cornering force and gives you back traction reserve. Then slow down. That reduces your speed so you can turn tighter, so you can then hit the right apex.
Don't roll on the gas... as much
If you're beyond at the apex when you notice you're early, don't roll on the gas as hard. That gives you back a traction reserve, which you can use to tighten your line before rolling back on the gas.
Hold the bike down to the apex
If you have traction reserve, and if you have cornering clearance, you can recover from an early apex by holding the bike down along the inner edge of the curve until you approach the real apex, when you can get back onto the proper path. Remember that you still need to be rolling on the throttle to keep the bike settled -- don't make the mistake of backing off mid-corner.
This photo from TrackDoD 1 shows me at Courage, correcting an early apex by holding the bike down into the corner. The clue that I'm being a Sleazeball is the angle of the front wheel -- it's turned to the outside of the corner, countersteering hard to keep lean angle on the bike. By this point in the turn, the bike should be unwinding the curve and coming back to vertical, and shouldn't be scrubbing off acceleration by so much steering input.
Photo by Mike RagsdaleGet it right next time
If you notice it at the track-out, you've already gone too far to fix it this time. Make a note of it and use a later turn-in and later apex next lap. Use your mistake to revise your site picture of the entry to the turn.
From TrackDoD Novice Group Orientation
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