4,600 fail maths. Thats around 1 in 11

whassupp2

I hope I'm not 1 of them but it got me thinking of how they (me included possibly) will feel tomorrow.
Most of them will have no alternative but to repeat.

Tak3n

will someone explain PLC courses to me? Do i NEED to pass maths to do one of them? how do i apply? whats available? etc...

Particle-Boy

I'm scared now.. What the HELL am I doing on this site now!?!?

whassupp2

No. you dont need to pass maths.
There are loads of options.
www.fetac.ie

Raphael

1 in 10? That's not in the least bit surprising. In fact, it's lower than I would have thought.

Edit: On a second look, it;s a bit high. THis is why posting on first reactions is bad >.<

EditEdit: Looking through the article it's 12% at Ordinary, 4,600/51,000 9% overall and no trace of a stat for higher level. Anyone know how many people did higher maths this year?

Steoob

isn't maths a tad bit too hard..

whassupp2

Raphael wrote:

1 in 10? That's not in the least bit surprising. In fact, it's lower than I would have thought.

...well considerin I may have failed maths, I might have got that figure wrong.
I based it on 51,000 people doing results and 4,600 failing. Now you do the maths. I've no calculator but it seems to be around 1 in 10.

Sangre

Steoob wrote:

isn't maths a tad bit too hard..

No, because it has to maintain a certain level so people can gauge their abilities for maths based college courses.

If you don't get at least a B in honours maths you'll never handle a lot of college courses e.g. Eng, Maths etc.,

whassupp2

Sangre wrote:

If you don't get at least a B in honours maths you'll never handle a lot of college courses e.g. Eng, Maths etc.,

Well thats me fcuked so:D

eamoss

Crap I taught it wud be marked easy doesnt look likey that I will get my B in pass maths!! :eek:

Shrimp

4,600 is not one tenth of 51,000..

51,000 / 4,600 = 11

1 in 11 .... not ten..

whassupp2

On another point, I just tries www.examinations.ie to get my results on the off chance that they'd be there early but it didnt work.

whassupp2

Shrimp wrote:

4,600 is not one tenth of 51,000..

51,000 / 4,600 = 11

1 in 11 .... not ten..

.....like I said I think I failed.
Now how do you go about editing a thread title?????

Edit: Done. Thanks Shrimp

oRlyYaRly

Steoob wrote:

isn't maths a tad bit too hard..

Too easy if anything but you defintely shouldn't need a pass in ordinary maths to do a freaking French course. :rolleyes:

Shrimp

good work son.

What you planning on doing? need maths?

Raphael

whassupp2: What level did you do?

whassupp2

Civil Engineering. Need a C3 in honours.
If I dont get it but pass I can do a diploma and then a degree.

Its just the difference between 4 years in college or 5??
But if I fail maths altogether its back to LC 2007 for me.

How about yourself???

whassupp2

Raphael wrote:

whassupp2: What level did you do?

Honours

ozt9vdujny3srf

First Eng Maths aint hard. You'll probably do better then you think. easy to get a C in honours maths.

whassupp2

Nicole Mysterious Spice wrote:

First Eng Maths aint hard. You'll probably do better then you think. easy to get a C in honours maths.

Cheers. My brother did it and he was fairly poor at maths.

eamoss

I was never aloud to do higher level maths :mad: thing what really pissed me off about 10ppl got lower then me and they got moved up & they taught that there was no point because I wudnt be able for higher level maths and wud just drop down in a week or two. Then when I was coming out with 100%s in class my teacher(diff 1 that told me I wudnt be able) told me that I really should have done higher level maths and I shud consider moving up for the next year but it never came out tho :rolleyes:

But that was years ago!!

7 & 1/2 hours :eek:

Raphael

whassupp2: Then relax the cacks mate! Just do the maths.

It says 4600 out of 51000 failed. that's 1/11 over all. Bust a fair few of them were ordinary level. If we assume that half the country did honours:

25,500 to pass. 12% of that is 3060. 4600-3060= 1540. 1540/25,500 = 6% at higher

If we assume that one third did honours:

34,000 to pass. 12% of that is 4080. 4600-4080=520. 520/17,000= 3% at higher

If we assume that one quarter did honours:

38,250 to pass. 12% of that is 4590. 4600-4590 = 10. I won;t bother with the percentage.




So you see, the percentage failing higher will not be that nasty. Hence the reason the times didn't print it. Bloody shock tactics. Anyone know how actually did honours maths?

Shrimp

I'm hoping to be in NCAD. They have accepted me, I need the CAO to now. 2 Honours 4 Passes or better. Not a massive requirement really. I'd take the bare minimum to get in right now rather than gamble and wait untill tomorrow. I think most people would.

You should be grand. In my opinion, I think college for 5 years would better than lc again.

whassupp2

Cheers for the help. I better be off to get some sleep. Good night and Good luck.

eamoss

Sleep is for the weak!!


Best of luck 2moro

Raphael

whassupp2 wrote:

Cheers for the help. I better be off to get some sleep. Good night and Good luck.

Good plan, sleep will help with the stress. You'll do grand.

spurious

The pass/fail rates are more or less the same every year - they have to be, otherwise people would treat Leaving Certs like vintage wine - 199* being an 'easier' year than 199*.

Where there are major difficulties across the board with a paper, the marking scheme is adjusted so that the percentages line up.

Year to year, the percentage of failures doesn't change greatly.

Anyway, nothing anyone can do now. I hope it goes OK for you.

Rob30888

Just heading to get mine and ****ting it! One lad in the country got 9 A1's :eek:

d4gurl

Huys thank ogd I pased honours maths! i got a C2 i cnt beleive that!! But im not counting that! but still Im so happy I passed!

GrumPy

I passed by the skin of my teeth But I needed a C3.

Raphael

...I got an A1...

*flees*

GrumPy

Raphael wrote:

...I got an A1...

*flees*

Rob30888

A2 in Ord Maths

OctavarIan

Irish GrumPy wrote:

I passed by the skin of my teeth But I needed a C3.

I got the reversal of that! Was hoping to scrape a pass and got a C3 :rolleyes:

GrumPy

OctavarIan wrote:

I got the reversal of that! Was hoping to scrape a pass and got a C3 :rolleyes:

Swap?

whassupp2

I needed a C3 in honours and I got a C2 so I'm happy.
....its a pity about the points:(

NADA

a1 honours. sweet.

Ravage1616

I failed maths last year but Passed this year thank god!!

cianclarke

Needed a C3 in Honours.
Got a C1 at JC and an E in the pre's, so I figure a B2 wasn't too bad.

blondie83

Maths is always a tough one - back when I did the LC in 2001 electronic engineering was my first choice. This meant that I didnt care about the points (they were 400 and i figured I'd get that), but was very very worried about the old honours maths (needed a B3 for elec). Actually spent more time on maths than the rest of my subjects put together Still got a B1 in the end and became an engineer and wouldn't have picked anything else for the world. Engineering is interesting, cos those with high points in the leaving don't necessarily do as well as those with lower points. It's all just about being able to adapt yourself to learn and cop-on to new techniques for solving problems - much the same mentality as the honours maths really. Good luck to all of you starting out now - college is a ball so make sure you enjoy it! As you're all just starting I'm finishing and getting ready to hand up my masters thesis and along with it college forever...its a funny old world