Maths Paper 1

Raphael

How did everyones exam go?

I left mine 30 minutes early having done all eight of the questions (Higher Level)

blahhh

I did ordinary I did all 8, but I did REALLY bad

Zeuz

blahhh wrote:

I did ordinary I did all 8, but I did REALLY bad

The same all 8 well atempted all 8, i think i will be doing a repeat :-( :mad: I am Pissssed off

String

every one that did ordinary in my school are complaining about the part (c)'s

even the supervisers said they were stupid questions.... that have never came up before

OctavarIan

DrMorphine wrote:

every one that did ordinary in my school are complaining about the part (c)'s

even the supervisers said they were stupid questions.... that have never came up before

Yeah the pass people in my school were complaining of the questions too.

I did the hons exam, can't tell how I did though.

Idgeitman

yeah, i was lost on most of the part C's, and hopefully i'll be able to pull myself back up on paper 2


.. now way in HELL im gonna repeat!

- idgeitman

DonaldDuck

I did bad in honours maths.Very bad

Kensington

Ordinary was very, very dodgy, mostly the part C's. Some of the questions like the tax question in q1, (c) (ii), or asking to prove the triangle was right angled in q2, (c) (ii) were fairly tough, I thought. That said though, I think I did alright although it's very hard to tell at this stage

Attractive Nun

According to the teachers in my school, 2(c) and 5(c)(i) were horrible questions, I was certainly going nowhere with them anyway. Other than that, I made full or reasonably close to full attempts at all the other questions, a few clearly wrong answers but should get most of the marks.

Didn't do as well as I'd hoped at all but a good paper 2 and I reckon I'll do alright.

schnupi

i actually thought the honors paper wasnt too hard

here is what i think of each question

1) a,b,c- piss easy.. too easy somehow
2)a-easy, bi - easy, bii - that q confused me a little, c - i didnt get the result but was quite close i think
3)a and b werent too bad. c was a bitch.. got weird results but was quite far
4) a,b,c were very easy...just look at the last part of c.. that says it all :rolleyes:
5) - didnt attempt that one because of the last log question.. i hate logs grr.. well a and b look handy enough though
6) a and b very ok except for the sketch of the curve but c was a bitch.. i had it covered but forgot how to do it. my teachers said though that an induction question in q6 wont be marked high.. it should ve been in q4 or q5 even though it was the proof for differentiation
7)a - easy, bi - alright, bii - hmm again very close, c - close once again but never got the result
8)that was another easy question a,b and c

i attempted 7/8 in total and thought it wasnt too bad after screwing up english yesterday

Ballina boy

Put it this way...if i dont get 6 outa 6 in paper 2 ill be repeating..

Some of the questions in the paper i hadent even see before..really really bad paper.[pass]

Better get craming for paper 2.

fatal

honours maths wasnt too bad..was easier that last years at least

eamoss

I did ordinary I have only covered 1-5 and 7. I would have never taught of using H2 = O2 + A2 for 2.(c)(ii). I say I got a B3 but I was hoping for an A2:(

helles belles

i did honours.
thought it was ok, but i really wanted an A in that paper and i dont think i got it.
question 1(c) i didnt have a clue about!
question 2(bii) was really odd
i didnt get the last part of the integration question to work out and my graph in the calculus question!

porn_star

did pass.
it was grand really.
some of the part c's were ****ing stupid though.
but, i reckon it was okish,
i thought i did **** last year and i got an a2, so hopefully i'll pull it off this year too though.
i prefer paper two anyways, so that should bring me up, either way

tweetypie

Did the pass paper and thought it was hard enough but thats my weaker paper cause i generally always do better in paper 2! Find it a lot easier!:)

Holsten

Thought the ordinary was decent enough, cept for those C's in 2 and 5... WTF? Loved question one though, deffo 50 marks in that.

Kensington

eamoss wrote:

I would have never taught of using H2 = O2 + A2 for 2.(c)(ii).

Damn - is that what it was? :eek:

I did the following:
Use equation of a line: y = mx + c, and took 4/x and (x-4) [ / = square root of]

1.
y = m x + c
y = 4 /x
=> Slope = 4

2.
y = m x + c
-4 = 1 x
1 = 1/-4 (fraction: 1 over -4)

Multiply the slopes:
4 X -1/4 = -1
=> Two are perpendicular, hence right angle
=> Triangle is right angled

I hope it's right!!!

Inglorious

Higher wasnt too bad.
Reckon I got full marks in Q1, 5, and 8.
Perhaps about 40 in Q4, 6, and 7.

eamoss

Holsten wrote:

Loved question one though, deffo 50 marks in that.

Very easy ques but the way they phrased part C could have gotten people. I def got 50 marks in that ques I was finished it in under 10mins.

For question 3 part C I got 2.6 did anyone get 0.1?

k8e

ye maths caused me 2 run d pub aftrwards, ok it wsnt dat bad but i still went 2 d pub straight aftr it! lol

willowmegs

Was disgusted with Maths Paper 1 (O)

Ballina boy

me too....you think paper 2 is easier?

willowmegs

Ballina boy wrote:

me too....you think paper 2 is easier?

feckin better be. gonna learn my theorems til i know them backwards

Attractive Nun

Just to put off studying for Irish paper 2...

Honours paper:

Q1 was lovely, although (a) scared me for about 15 seconds.
Q2 (a) and (b) were simple enough, I went all around the world trying to do that (c) part and got nowhere.
Q3 I left out
Q4 was again lovely right the way through, although that (c) part was suspiciously easy.
Q5 (a), (b) and (c)(ii) were fine, if somebody shows me how to do (c)(i), I'd be greatly pleased.
Q6 was annoying because I ****ed up the (b) part somewhat and my graph was a mess, but the rest of it was super.
Q7 went well, except I just couldn't get the last few lines of (c) to work out.
Q8 I only did this because I wasn't happy about the rest, haven't done integration in yonks. Couldn't do (b)(ii) and got (c) wrong.

Overall I was hoping for an A, but I doubt I got it (well, barring major attempt mark leniency, I didn't). I need a good paper 2 or I'll be well pissed off with myself.

Raphael

I'll do out 5 c (i) out for you. Hurray procrastination.

DonaldDuck

The most annoying thing for me was that I couldnt get 3 (a) out

I couldnt get it as a real number,How do you do it?

The question was z=2+i

z +[U]d[/U]
   z

as a real number

smemon

yeah i did ordinary.

pretty simple tbh, the (a) parts are easy, full marks (60).

got a couple of (b)'s right (40) and 2 (c)'s (40).

once i knew i'd got 140, i said f-it and walked out after an hour to study for irish which i anialated due to my strategic approach to maths

a pass for me in maths but more importantly, a definate pass for me in irsh (higher) already - with paper 2 yet to go.

write it out as 2 + i + 1/(2+i) then multiply above and below by the conjugate root (2-i) then LCM, create a fraction, and equate real and imaginary parts.

d = 5

helles belles

I didnt get 3 (a) out either!!!
it is shameful!

michelle_ie

maths ordinary level- disgusting paper, left the exam hall in tears... spent honestly all my time and energy tryin to do that subject and i know i had to have failed.... im hoping though that because i answered the 6 questions and attempted every part of the paper that i perhaps scrap a pass....

but seriously it was a paper for higher standards students, the department dont care about the weak math students and need to understand that if u fail maths u fail ur leaving...

horrible horrible horrible

Raphael

Attractive Nun:


Will do 3(a) as well

willowmegs

michelle_ie wrote:

but seriously it was a paper for higher standards students, the department dont care about the weak math students and need to understand that if u fail maths u fail ur leaving...

true, i'll be happy with a d3.i only need a d3 anyway for my course but heres hoping paper 2 will be better.

don't worry, the dept wont want to skew their results curve, the same amount of people will get A,B,C,D,E,F grades as every year..

A tough paper means an easy marking scheme..

Just concentrate on blowing paper 2 out of the water.

cianclarke

Hons, and I won't be getting that honour I so badly need by the looks of things... Should have passed though.
B*llocks.

JoseJones

Did anyone else get 32 and 16 for 8(c) (integration-HL)?

Rockerette

Ordinary, i thought it was great!


the part Cs werent that bad.... although our teacher has spent the last year focosing on the hardest question for every topic..




there was a few funny things throughout, but i attempted 7, and sorted out 3 parts i couldnt do earlier, in the last 15 minutes, which made me happy.

Ballerina

i did honours.most people in my class thought it was hard,even my teacher said so!!i couldnt remember the differention theorem either!!QUESTION-can you get an A or B1 without having without getting any question FULLY worked out??!!

helles belles

thats the answer but i couldnt get the 16 out

OctavarIan

JoseJones wrote:

Did anyone else get 32 and 16 for 8(c) (integration-HL)?

Yeah, I got 32 for the area under the curve. Didn't get part (ii) done though.

shane0312

Raphael wrote:

Attractive Nun:


Will do 3(a) as well

Yeah I did that as well except I just let the log =x and subbed it in afterwards. I was so happy when the perfect square came out.

Just as a matter of interest what did you get for the conditions for C (ii) to be true? I worked it out as A=B, and it worked out.

helles belles

That was a reply to josejones btw

Raphael

3(a):


Edit: It's a five not a three. My bad. Technique is fine though, just comes to d=5

shane0312

JoseJones wrote:

Did anyone else get 32 and 16 for 8(c) (integration-HL)?

Yeah I got that.

Raphael

Raphael wrote:

3(a):

that's wrong....

(2+ i)(2 - i) = 5

Gangsta

I thought it was a lovely paper.

Q1.Full Marks
Q2. C i made a decent attempt but i actually read the q wrong!!
Q3. Full Marks
Q6. Only got to 'now prove true for n=k' teacher said u got 13/20 for that.
Q7. Didn't get last few lines of C.
Q8. Full Marks

I'd say just scraped an A1. I'm gonna rape paper2.

Raphael

shane0312 wrote:

Yeah I did that as well except I just let the log =x and subbed it in afterwards. I was so happy when the perfect square came out.

Just as a matter of interest what did you get for the conditions for C (ii) to be true? I worked it out as A=B, and it worked out.

Yup, A=B. Log x to the base x is 1, so it's 1/1 + 1/1 = 2

michelle_ie

Gangsta wrote:

I thought it was a lovely paper.

Q1.Full Marks
Q2. C i made a decent attempt but i actually read the q wrong!!
Q3. Full Marks
Q6. Only got to 'now prove true for n=k' teacher said u got 13/20 for that.
Q7. Didn't get last few lines of C.
Q8. Full Marks

I'd say just scraped an A1. I'm gonna rape paper2.

honours or pass///

Gangsta

Honours

Raphael, Is that right? (2+i)(2-i)=5 isn't it?

Raphael

Deleted User wrote:

that's wrong....

(2+ i)(2 - i) = 5

...****idy doo da, you're right. Answer still works out the same way though. Glad I have 2 spare questions!

JoseJones

Ballerina wrote:

i did honours.most people in my class thought it was hard,even my teacher said so!!i couldnt remember the differention theorem either!!QUESTION-can you get an A or B1 without having without getting any question FULLY worked out??!!

I'm almost certain you can at least get a B1. It's possible to get an A in applied maths anyway. you'd need to make close to no mistakes, and you're always likely to make a few blunders...