Ordinary level MATHS , Aftermath.

Absolute Zero

Well guys , what did ye think of the maths paper 2?

i thought it was quite fare tbh especcialy the statistics question and linear programming but question 2 (the line) part b was damn hard i could not get it to work out.

xFROSTY Gx

Feel good after doing that exam. Very happy with the way all my questions went. I was kind of in a rush to do a qustion and a half in the last 15mins though:o haha

Bongomc

the last parts of a couple of Qs were hard but the paper was good.

Adriatic

I couldn't do Q2 part b at all and I messed up linear prgrommaing part b because I panicked and then I realised how to do it afterwards. AHHH!

Otherwise I absolutely flew through statistics, probability and trigonometry, they weren't so bad.

Twilighter

I found Q.2&3 quite difficult, took me ages like!
Q10 on the options was unusual to what normally is up aswell.

Nimmy

I thought it was kinda hard compared with Paper 1. But I think I just didn't put as much time into studying paper 2! oops!

mikeglee

I'd be very grateful if someone put up the solution to OL maths Question B please

Dante

I thought it was the hardest paper two in the past 5/6 years. Paper one was incredibly easy though so it kinda balances out!

Walsh

I made a complete balls of it anyway

Gi joe!

there goes commerce, def didn't get a B3 after my shoddy effort:(

Homicidal_jesus

I thought that was a nice paper 1,5,7 were very simple and last parts of 2 and 3 were a bit tricky but got them in the end

q11 was really easy!!

Beau x1

Realistically it was grand, I just didn't put enough attention to it. Q 2) was anoying because I knew how to do everything on it except for i) which meant I couldn't continue.

Probability was piss.

squirrel!

man i raped the probability question! it rocks!
apart from that it was all good i tink!

p1akuw47h5r3it

Line and circle q where hard... Didn't get the last part of Area and Volume either but pretty happy overall

mink_man

whats the answer to the last part on q 11? its show the region where the profit is at most 7200?

Claypigeon

Happy with that paper, learned all formulas this morning and wrote them all down in my first page of the answer-book. Wrote them out each time they were needed, 3 marks. Subbed in variables, 4 marks. Solving a Part C with the knowledge I did it perfectly, as someone who's been up to this point innumerate, priceless. And 3 marks.

Futurism

Definitely got most of it right. A few questions were a bit tricky so they'll probably bring my grade down a bit.

Wasn't sure what to do for some of the trig questions but I think I might have gotten them right anyway.

As said already, probability was great this year.

ThatWouldBeNice

Was an okay paper, a few tricky bits, and it took me three tries to get the cumulative freq. graph, but apart from that it was fine Never have to use the word 'quadratic equation' again, feels nice

Jello

Good enough paper but it had a few tricky parts alright, Q2(b) in particular.

phic

last part of Q.1 was a bit tricky, but I think I got it in the end!
Just completely ignored part b of two, had no idea what that was all about!
did 6 questions so it should be grand!

What does that thing about bearing mean? was the angle where the arrow was pointing 40degrees or 130?

ooPabsoo

questin 2 B was hard...i got it out somehow though:D the other 2 points were something like (0,4)(0,-4) i just subbed in the (3,0) into the distance formula and seeing as X2 had to be 0,was left with the problem of finding Y2,seeing as 3 squared is 9.....it had to be 4 or -4 as the length was 5...the square root had to add up to 25 and whoooop it did

GVNDNN

Was an okay paper

Except the end part of 1,
How do you do that?

Em and part B of question 2

Linear programming, propability and statistics were grand, area and volume ok, and question 3 had soem hard bits

Just so happy maths is done

K4t

Way harder than Paper1.

They lured us into a false sense of security like the witches :pac:

I think I got an A in paper1 so that should bring me up.

Can somebody post their Probability answers so I can check them please.

Lucet

I said buh bye to commerce in UCD. I did fine in Q1 (I think I got every question right), probabilities, statistics (because I'm in love with them)... But Q2 and Q3 were aweful. I was in the rush with trigonometry, I did part a and started part b, bet left it out. Q11 was also quite freaky, I had 15 mins left, tried to do it for 5 mins and then started Q10, which, of course, I didn't finish. Now I blame myself because I didn't start Q10 instead of that horrible Q11 >.<

english4490

went pretty well thank god.. i thought it was much easier than paper 1...!:rolleyes:

xprincessashx

2 and 3 were freakin hard!! and im an ex-honours student hopin for an a...HA unlikely...not gonna happen now, that paper really annoyed me

K4t

Probability Answers: I got: These coud be wrong but they could also be right: Please let me know! I think i did fine on Parts A and B but here my C answers -

(C)
(i) 120
(ii) 72
(iii) 36
(iv) 12

Anyone? I'm crap at it but I rushed through it (about 5 mins) and managed to get answers!

sarah+1

Do people just come on here to boast about how "piss" they thought the paper was? I came on here looking for something to console me after that horrendous paper, but got nothing of the sort.

I'm having a horrible day. 2 horrifc exams, followed by eating a raw chicken breast. Food poisoning to follow most likely. FML.

ironictoaster

sarah+1 wrote: »

Do people just come on here to boast about how "piss" they thought the paper was? I came on here looking for something to console me after that horrendous paper, but got nothing of the sort.

I'm having a horrible day. 2 horrifc exams, followed by eating a raw chicken breast. Food poisoning to follow most likely. FML.

there there *hugs*

I didn't like it either. I'm so stupid. I didn't see the second inquality x + y < 13

>.<

GallowsGhost

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

I thought it was the hardest paper two in the past 5/6 years. Paper one was incredibly easy though so it kinda balances out!

Yeah they definitely weren't given away too many easy marks on that one.

I think I did okay-ish (I hope), but a couple of the last parts threw me. Especially the end of linear programming, I've never come across that sort of question before.

ironictoaster

What did everyone get for Simpson's Rule?

Occono

I feel just the same as I did after the Pre.

Not good, that.

AR-15

ooPabsoo wrote: »

questin 2 B was hard...i got it out somehow though:D the other 2 points were something like (0,4)(0,-4) i just subbed in the (3,0) into the distance formula and seeing as X2 had to be 0,was left with the problem of finding Y2,seeing as 3 squared is 9.....it had to be 4 or -4 as the length was 5...the square root had to add up to 25 and whoooop it did

I was wondering whether i got that question right or not but that's exactly what i got. We can't both be wrong, can we?

Saffy

It was a good enough paper but there were some very tricky parts.
I ran out of time and only got part a done in my last question:rolleyes:
But maths is my only OL subject so won't be counting it anyway.

K4t

creggy wrote: »

What did everyone get for Simpson's Rule?

5% for part (ii) anyway.

Gavin "shels"

Q2 was shocking, glad I done 6 questions in Section A. Others were doable, probability was great and I thought myself that.:cool: Hoping for a B2 maybe a B1.

Gavin "shels"

K4t wrote: »

5% for part (ii) anyway.

Serious I got 1%.:eek:

Saffy

Gavin shels wrote: »

Serious I got 1%.:eek:

I got 5 or 6%

snazzy

Maths P2 OL was challenging enough to be honest.
Lot of C parts caught me out and I had to really really think so my timing was screwed up.

Part C (ii) Area and Volume?
Part B The Line!
Part C (ii) The Circle?
The bearing of the boat in Trig? WTF?!

But pleased over all.

And I got 5% too!

moneyman

AR-15 wrote: »

I was wondering whether i got that question right or not but that's exactly what i got. We can't both be wrong, can we?

I got it too, so it's unlikely that we're wrong.

That said, I didn't know how to get it out the proper way, I worked it out in my head, and wrote it down. I'll probably lose marks for not showing out my work, but at least I'll have picked up a few marks for getting an answer rather than leaving it blank.

Generally, I was delighted with the paper. It was tricky, but I did alot of study yesterday and I'd be confident I got an A in paper 2, or at least a high B. I actually didn't do as well on Paper 1, where I managed to completely forget how to do a few part Cs.

Anyone get the last part of the Linear Programming question? Someone mentioned it, less than 7200 or something? Hadn't a clue how to do that. Also, how do you show the inequality y > 0 on a graph, or whatever it was?

Lucet

Gavin shels wrote: »

Serious I got 1%.:eek:

Yeah, it's 5%. Simpson's rule I got 137m^2.

haloauto

There were some tricky bits in it (bearing of the boat wtf?)..... hopefully will get a B though. I got the 2 Linear programming inequalities but didn't have enough time to go past the graph.... did vectors too though:cool:

Gavin "shels"

Lucet wrote: »

Yeah, it's 5%. Simpson's rule I got 137m^2.

I got the 137m^2, how the hell did I get the other part wrong.


Did anyone get part ii on question 1.C.?

Lucet

Gavin shels wrote: »

I got the 137m^2, how the hell did I get the other part wrong.


Did anyone get part ii on question 1.C.?

1C(ii) I got 5cm. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong .

moneyman

snazzy wrote: »

Maths P2 OL was challenging enough to be honest.
Lot of C parts caught me out and I had to really really think so my timing was screwed up.

Part C (ii) Area and Volume?
Part B The Line!
Part C (ii) The Circle?
The bearing of the boat in Trig? WTF?!

But pleased over all.

And I got 5% too!

All you had to do was put in 2.25 for the height in the cylinder volume equation. I couldn't do that part at first, but went back to it when I had all my other questions done. Luckily, it came back to me and when I put it in it worked out perfect. Those questions are always phrased to sound far more challenging than they are.


Question 5 was definitely my weak point. I picked up hardly any marks on that question so I decided to do a sixth question in section one, which was question 7. Think I did alo better on that one.

haloauto

Gavin shels wrote: »

I got the 137m^2, how the hell did I get the other part wrong.


Did anyone get part ii on question 1.C.?

137 = 100%
1.37= 1%
7/1.37 =

Fad

I though vectors was pretty tough this year.

Claypigeon

haloauto wrote: »

There were some tricky bits in it (bearing of the boat wtf?)..... hopefully will get a B though. I got the 2 Linear programming inequalities but didn't have enough time to go past the graph.... did vectors too though:cool:

Bearing of the boat was simple, never seen a compass before? o.o

haloauto

Claypigeon wrote: »

Bearing of the boat was simple, never seen a compass before? o.o

I said 90degrees west or something lol.

Claypigeon

haloauto wrote: »

I said 90degrees west or something lol.

lol

don101

mink_man wrote: »

whats the answer to the last part on q 11? its show the region where the profit is at most 7200?

i divided by the profit for each 800 and 900 i think! got (0,8) and (9,0) or the reverse, then just plot and draw arrows!!!

i think...