The headcount of failure, (honours maths)

StephenC_IRL

So heres the deal, 1 in 5 people fail honours maths (ive been told) so i want to see just reply with the word "FAIL" or "PASS" - a lolcat link for fail is also acceptable then your grade beside that , i just want to see whats the boardsies failure rate,

im failee number 1 with an E , lolcats link : http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/fail.jpg

so there has to be 4 boardsies who passed to even me out, lets see what we can find

(HONOURS ONLY !!!!)

SamHamilton

Pass. A1!

genericgoon

Passed (A2 )

KarmaCreep

Pass (D2):D

KarmaCreep

I didn't mean to post twice, oops

IrishKnight

Passed just, D2

Lucas10101

Passed B1

WildCardDoW

Paased, D1, getting it appealed though, was hoping for a C3.

sd123

Passed.... A1

Alanstrainor

passed (C1);)

Mushy

Passed..C2

tolosenc

Pass. B1.

DemocAnarchis

Bet the OP is feeling suitably comforted :P

memberofpublic

Passed, C2. (Honestly thought I was going to scrape a D3)

Nehpets

passed, b3

spudington16

Passed - A2.

ninebeanrows

Passed - C1 up from my 25% in the mocks!

mp3guy

Passed - B2

missyteabags

Passed.........A1.

cookiemonst3r

Passed... A1...so HAPPY

JC 2K3

Passed, A2(stupid paper 2)

*belle*

passed A1...

Jonathan

Passed - B2

Grudaire

Passed A1

There's alot of A1's here- too many.... who's lying?

lucernarian

B3, up from a scraped C2 in the mocks.

lemansky

Passed, A1...depite the careless mistakes, and paper 2 in general

Donald-Duck

StephenC_IRL wrote:

So heres the deal, 1 in 5 people fail honours maths (ive been told) so i want to see just reply with the word "FAIL" or "PASS" - a lolcat link for fail is also acceptable then your grade beside that , i just want to see whats the boardsies failure rate,

im failee number 1 with an E , lolcats link : http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/fail.jpg

so there has to be 4 boardsies who passed to even me out, lets see what we can find

(HONOURS ONLY !!!!)

You're wrong. I suggest reading a paper any time this week and you'll see.
4% fail honours maths.

StephenC_IRL

4, more like 12, but anyway yeah i thought this thread would make me feel better, it doesnt damn you and your passing, all of you

Donald-Duck

StephenC_IRL wrote:

4, more like 12, but anyway yeah i thought this thread would make me feel better, it doesnt damn you and your passing, all of you

1/8 fail pass maths but thats the biggest fail rate in any of the maths levels. Where'd you read 1/5?

Squeeonline

Passed - Got a B1 but im going to have a look at it. Thought i might deserve a A2. Dont really need it but its worth the look.

NADA

Passed....................D3 wooho

Bluefox21

passed b2

The guy

Passed - b1

carlowboy

A2

whatshername!!

paseed C2 (Up from a fail of 35% in the mocks)

KnifeWRENCH

passed, B2 (good paper 2,bad paper 1)

Gangsta

My maths teacher told me that when all the papers were corrected last year the failure rate was around 49%!! The results were then massaged. That's unbelievable, 49%!

Pass.A1

hoolio

Gangsta wrote:

My maths teacher told me that when all the papers were corrected last year the failure rate was around 49%!! The results were then massaged. That's unbelievable, 49%!

Your teacher is wrong.

Gangsta

hoolio wrote:

Your teacher is wrong.

Hmm yes she only corrects the paper and is a teacher at GMIT.

hoolio

Many many people correct papers. All of whom are teachers somewhere. Whats your point?

It's not personal. Just....wrong.

Gangsta

hoolio wrote:

Many many people correct papers. All of whom are teachers somewhere. Whats your point?

It's not personal. Just....wrong.

sure, so what's your source?

hoolio

Erm, a marking scheme setter/advising examiner. But to be honest i dont really want to play "my sources mickey is bigger then your sources mickey" Thats not why im saying anything.

Last year as far as a remember people did too well if anything. Also it's virtually impossible to "massage" a 49% fair rate down to what it ends at every year. Especially without there being absolute war in the maths examiners world.

All they do/can do is look at the paper and see what questions seperate the tiers of marks. Say if they want to lower the number of B's, they look at the people who just scraped over 70% and the people who were on a more stable B3, then find the questions that seperate those people to be remarked.

But forget even that. Come on - 49% Does that no strike you as insane no matter who says it. Half of all the people doing honour maths FAILING? It just doesnt happen.

Tbh honours maths has such a rep as a monster that it scares people away from it.

derryo

Passed (B3)

jackjack555

Pass...a1

Citizen_Erased

Pass ... a2 ... up from a d2 in the mocks

Turnip2000

Passed....C2 like weathercheck up from a 25% in mocks!

StephenC_IRL

ok either theres liers or everyone on boards cheated, no way is there nobody else failing maths

Naikon

Most people who do Honours don't fail.
Ordinary Maths on the other hand.....

Donald-Duck

Naikon wrote:

Most people who do Honours don't fail.
Ordinary Maths on the other hand.....

Exactly, its about 1 in 26 or 27 people that fail it since it was something like 3.7% of people who fail it.

analyse this

B1....so happy! I thought paper 2 would bring me down!

Naikon

Donald-Duck wrote:

Exactly, its about 1 in 26 or 27 people that fail it since it was something like 3.7% of people who fail it.

Also, people in danger of failing would have dropped to Ordinary level long before June 2007.
Sorry, but you should not have picked the pink paper in the first place.