how did everyone get on in maths 2??

cork 111

how did ye get on??

ciano1

Twas a cũnt of a paper

Nice theroms came up though

cork 111

yeah liked the thermons i taut area and volume and da cord geom wasnt 2 bad either! the rest was hard enough:(

skittles16

dose any one have the slutions or no were u can get them ....

cork 111

avent a clue lyk to know if ya can get them anywhere??

sheeez

**** hard:(:(
theorems were grand but the rest ooohhh!oh wel statics wz sinch!:D
i didnt have enough time really either!

BallerinaBabe

I thought questions 1 and 2 were grand..
question 3 was ok but the last part of c was hard enough..
question 4 wasn't great.. question 5 was awful and 6 was pretty easy..


4 and 5 were definitely the worst..

as for the solutions maybe we could just talk about them here??

eVeNtInE

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winner92

I was happy enough with the whole paper but it i think it was harder than previous years. there were a few little bits which caught me out but im fairly confident that i well.:D:D

Valin

I showed my teacher the paper and she said it was one of the hardest she's seen in years and that some of the questions where really sneaky.

Area & Volume was easy but then in Co-ord Geometry in part B I had (0,3) for b,c and s. So my triangle was a dot!
Then trig wasn't to bad and the Triangle, construction stuff wasn't too bad except for c (iv), it just didn't make sense! Had no idea how to do 4 c (i) but part 2 was easy. Then in the trig section they could have just said 4 over 2 or something and made it clear instead of deliberatly trying to confuse use by just saying 4.

And don't even get me started on counting the golf rounds, I never thought something could be as boring as golf until I did that question! I literally thought I was about to lose my mind!!!!

Reckle

the maths was really hard
my 3 angles of a triangle theorem came up yay
question 1 was fine,2 no clue,3 was ok,4 ok,5 really difficult and 6 easy

ayumi

what did pple get for q 5c the coodrinates of p(ordinary)

tracker-man

thought the paper was quite difficult and time was scarce too! I wont go into individual questions but they gave a hard maths exam this year.

ch252

I was delighted with it, the 2 theorems I thought would come up did and I did all questions without much difficulty, I was pi**** off that I didn't change mins to hours in the question 5 5(b)(i)
Time was extremely scarce, I was just finishing as the super intendant said close the booklets! Needed a lot of extra paper too, another half hour would have made a big difference, but I suppose timing is part of the exam too.
It definitely brought me up from paper one.

Lorthas

It was a difficult paper, but i enjoyed it, question 5 was hard, but the rest was like other papers. It was above average in difficulty level

tracker-man

why is there such a time limit though? There testing your maths, not your time keeping or organisational skills! Why can't you have as much time as you like to answer as many questions as you possibly can. I mean, if you miss out on a question or two if you know the method and you just run out of time, it doesn't give a fair impression on the work you've been doing for 3 years does it? Why not give enough time to write everything you know, good plentiful answers and thus, possibly get a higher grade? Would make more sense to me...











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hurler007

Overall i tout it was a good paper.theorems were good Q1,2,3,6 were fairly easy the other two were fairly difficult.i was a little stuck 4 time unlike paper1.id say i probly got a B.:D

oisin238

i hated it i only liked q6 and the theroms

TransititionMan

I thought i done alot worse than i had til i looked over the paper.
Q1- No thougth was needed
Q2- I was Useless
Q3- Okay
Q4- Very easy i thought.
Q5- I definatly got some marks for it, i liked c.
Q6- Iceing on the cake as far as my test went, brought me up to a B if i calculated correctly.

Very hard paper all the same and some of the stuff ijust guessed my way through.

keane-xx

I think i did well, but the paper was really hard. The trigonometery and tangents and stuff were really hard..........! But overall, i think i will get an A or B!!

Cathal93

I really thought the first 2 questions were pretty hard!!!!!!!!!!
3,4,5 and 6 were really easy!!!!!!!!!! Anyone else agree.....anyone willin to post sum soloutions??????????

aingel

Well i thought it woz ok loved the theorems yay! but stupid me got it into my head that it was over at 12.30 so i thought i had loads of time!owel.. em just wondering if any one knows what the story is with extra paper. i have big writing so needed 3 extra booklets but when i asked for the third one the superintendant came up and started looking through my work! Is that allowed?? she said the dept are v. fussy about paper r sumthing. I lost about two mins over that which i know doesnt sound very long but when you're told youve 5 mins left when your stupid brain thinks youve half an hour its loads. God im so p***ed off.

ch252

aingel wrote: »

Well i thought it woz ok loved the theorems yay! but stupid me got it into my head that it was over at 12.30 so i thought i had loads of time!owel.. em just wondering if any one knows what the story is with extra paper. i have big writing so needed 3 extra booklets but when i asked for the third one the superintendant came up and started looking through my work! Is that allowed?? she said the dept are v. fussy about paper r sumthing. I lost about two mins over that which i know doesnt sound very long but when you're told youve 5 mins left when your stupid brain thinks youve half an hour its loads. God im so p***ed off.

Doubt it? I got 3 booklets too and countless sheets of graph paper and nothing was said so I dunno? we had a sound super intendant though.

stop_the_craze

aingel wrote: »

Well i thought it woz ok loved the theorems yay! but stupid me got it into my head that it was over at 12.30 so i thought i had loads of time!owel.. em just wondering if any one knows what the story is with extra paper. i have big writing so needed 3 extra booklets but when i asked for the third one the superintendant came up and started looking through my work! Is that allowed?? she said the dept are v. fussy about paper r sumthing. I lost about two mins over that which i know doesnt sound very long but when you're told youve 5 mins left when your stupid brain thinks youve half an hour its loads. God im so p***ed off.

Well my geography teacher told us that we can use as much paper as we want and skip lines/ write on one side of the page only and they have to give you as much paper as you want.
Ragin' though... . I'm sure you did ok.

Valin

Question 2 (b)

All the points added to (0,3)!!!! What the hell!

t-mobile1892

If you look back over the past maths exams since the new syllabus came in this years is probably the hardest..:mad:...still the theorems nd the construction were handy enough....

tracker-man

yep me too, used two extra booklets, and 3 pages of graph paper! Not a problem. The blue booklet would hardly close! exam time is not the time to be
environmentally friendly!

lolipops

it was waaaay easier than paper 1
but i still found some parts difficult,
Q1 was easy
Q2 i skipped part C and never went back to it because i ran out of time
Q3 easy enough, i was happy with the theorem ^_^
Q4 all i can say is wah? i couldnt do part B
Q5 easy but i skipped C and i didnt go back to it
Q6 simple but i had to go over that golf thing about 10 times..
and i thought watching golf was boring.. ugh and my dad even listens to golf on the radio and i thought that was bad...

TransititionMan

Yeh I think most ppl got stuck on 2 i knw i did and i wont even get any marks for asome of the stuff cos i didnt even try cos it would cost me alot of time for minimum points :S

I actually think i done better in paper 2 than 1 which is a massive shock for me :O

Still the paper was very hard and im glad when i see ppl get the same answers as i did... eg (0,3) lol all 3 of em were that :P funny looking triangle :P

eVeNtInE

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Valin

Since when does a dot constitute a triangle!

My teacher said that 4 & 5 part (c)'s where just cruel!
Like I think who ever made the papers this year just decided, 'Nah, I won't ask them what on the course! I'll just ask them confusing questions that they'll get wrong!'

My teacher is complaining about Question 2 part (b) and 4 & 5 part c's. Anyone else talk to their teachers?

stop_the_craze

I did the ordinary level paper. I think I got 100% in Paper 1 and 2 so a deffo A for me :cool:.

Hope you guys did good too!

eVeNtInE

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norwegianwood

Oh my god it was brutal! Most unfair,difficult exam I've ever seen in my life,especially trig,which I'm normally good at. Really makes me wish I'd done the JC last year.

Lorthas

If anyone wants to know the solution for a specific question (except Q5 part (a) and (c) ) Just ask and i might be able to help

sheeez

i spent way too much time on 2 gettin it right and the area and volume question i usually fine fine but then i was just screwed!!
hopefully the markin scheme wil b generous!!:D

tracker-man

sheeez wrote: »

hopefully the markin scheme wil b generous!!:D

I second that! My teacher told me the head examiners sit down and discuss the paper and how it was answered. If for example question 4 was answered badly by loads of students then they allow for that in the marking scheme.


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TransititionMan

Yeh :P thank god for attempt marks anyway :P :P :P
Added mine up looking over the test again and i got around 72%
delighted :P

aine92

i nearly burst with hapiness when i saw the theorems but question 5 was impossible, id say i got a max of about 20/50 in it :(


Im TERRIFIED to go to my teacher, he wont talk to you unless you get a B or over. I daresay ill never talk 2 him again haha...!!

eVeNtInE

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lolipops

could anyone tell me how much marks would i lose if i didnt do 2(c) 4(c) and 5(c)??
i havn't a clue about the marking scheme so if you would tell me that would be great

eVeNtInE

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oponodon

Hey, i was just wondering, about part (iv) of b in Question 2 (Find the area of the triangle cde) what was the simplest way of doing that? I had to use the distance equation 3 times, and found each of the areas of the small triangles, and added them. I used up a whole page, and lost loadza time, and i had to skip part c and come back to it later. Was there a simpler way of doing that part?

lolipops

oponodon wrote: »

Hey, i was just wondering, about part (iv) of b in Question 2 (Find the area of the triangle cde) what was the simplest way of doing that? I had to use the distance equation 3 times, and found each of the areas of the small triangles, and added them. I used up a whole page, and lost loadza time, and i had to skip part c and come back to it later. Was there a simpler way of doing that part?

not too sure but i used 1/2 a b SinC
its probably wrong though, but thats what i always do to get the area of a triangle.
oh and what was your graph like?
mine was so weird the lines intersected at their tips so it formed a perfect triangle, which never happened before so im guessing its wrong.

eVeNtInE

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oponodon

Yeah i did that, but the only way i could get the area was use 1/2absinC, but i only had the 2 90 degree angles, so i had to find 2 sides of each.... took ages.

aine92

lolipops wrote: »

not too sure but i used 1/2 a b SinC
its probably wrong though, but thats what i always do to get the area of a triangle.
oh and what was your graph like?
mine was so weird the lines intersected at their tips so it formed a perfect triangle, which never happened before so im guessing its wrong.

sh!t i used half the base X perpendicular height :eek::eek:

UpYeBoyo

That paper made me want to die.Four and five actually brought tears to my eyes! Thank heavens I'm doing pass for the leaving cert! i hope I scraped a c! I really really hope so! If I didnt Im going to jump in ahole because i have been doing grinds for a year, I'm just not good at maths!

lolipops

UpYeBoyo wrote: »

That paper made me want to die.Four and five actually brought tears to my eyes! Thank heavens I'm doing pass for the leaving cert! i hope I scraped a c! I really really hope so! If I didnt Im going to jump in ahole because i have been doing grinds for a year, I'm just not good at maths!

me too
i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!

yeah im hoping for a C too..

if i dont get a C il move to yemen and change my name to hiltashnuven..
hiltashnuven the goat farmer..

UpYeBoyo

lolipops wrote: »

me too
i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!

yeah im hoping for a C too..

if i dont get a C il move to yemen and change my name to hiltashnuven..
hiltashnuven the goat farmer..

Hahaha! Yeah, same here! Are you bad at maths anyway? I'm bad at maths anyway, even though I did a load of grinds and study.Maths just aren't my thing... I hope you get your C! I'm praying to God to get mine!

PurpleFistMixer

lolipops wrote: »

me too
i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!

Of course it looks impossible, you haven't spent 2 years learning how to do it. : p It's really not that bad.