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Old (and clearly superior) Science Course

  • 16-06-2006 1:11pm
    #1
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭


    How did you find the paper? Some of the short questions were a little tricky but overall it wasn't too bad. Opinions?


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  • #2
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    I hated science (old course) when I did it last year. My teacher was so crap and we had her for 3 years :eek: still got a C


  • #3
    smoosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭smoosh


    i thought it was more difficult than other papers. usually each of the long questions has two very different areas covered in it but this year the whole question was just on one area. i thought the biology question on digestion was very hard. which is why i didn't do it.

    i'm pretty happy with it overall though. it could've been worse!


  • #4
    macroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭macroman


    hehe you lot had to do the old course. but i still wish i was doing it as then i wouldn't of had to waste my time with bloddy experiments and if I didn't know a question I could have just skipped it. Ah well at least I finished the new sylabus after less than an hour. :p


  • #5
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    hahahaha love the title piste old and clearly superior science course. Absolutely correct. Us 1989ers must stick together!!!! only like something like 3,500 pople did the old sylabus. I dont care what other people think that the new syallbus is harder even though they have to do all questions on paper. ours is harder.

    Well with regards the paper. Very mangeable indeed. in long questions i did.
    Physics: Q4. ONLY part i found a bit weird is the experiment to show that water expands at low tempratures. The only experiment in our science book the world of science(a pity that its gone) that is similar is to show that liquids expand when heated ,not at low tempratures. i just did that experiment and said only use the bunsen burner for a second.

    Chemistry: q.7 very manageable. what was q6 (a) all about?

    Biology:q.8 digestive system which i predicted. as one system of the body always comes up.

    In applied science aka options.

    FOOD: (a) and (c)

    ENERGY CONVERSIONS: happy that a dc motor came up. got the diagram to learn from a leaving physics book.


  • #6
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    id say i got an A around the 90% and over mark.


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  • #7
    JSK 252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭JSK 252


    only need 306 or there abouts out of 360 to get an A.


  • #8
    Jello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    I thought it was quite easy.
    Did two of the Physics Questions.
    And the Earth and Material Science was easy too.
    Loads of stuff I'd studied the previous night came up...like the ice block thing..:)


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