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1st year science...passing maths?

  • 23-04-2010 11:37am
    #1
    daniel91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭


    just wondering to pass maths in 1st year do you have to pass calculus and algerbra indivdually? or is just an overall pass from the two?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Pinturicchio
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    Overall pass from the two, as far as I know.


  • #3
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    Pinturicchio wrote: »
    Overall pass from the two, as far as I know.

    If you're right then my life is made that much easier. I reckon I got about 60% in the Algebra and 30% in the Calculus so hopefully it'll even out at 45%, otherwise it's back in August for me :rolleyes:


  • #4
    strumindaguitar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭strumindaguitar


    Calculus paper was dirty :S algebra wasn't great either..hope compensation counts!!!11!!


  • #5
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    If you're right then my life is made that much easier. I reckon I got about 60% in the Algebra and 30% in the Calculus so hopefully it'll even out at 45%, otherwise it's back in August for me :rolleyes:

    Here's hopin' bud!! Algebra was a saint compared to that cuntox of a calculus paper, please please please don't make me have to pass it :(!!


  • #6
    bosmedia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭bosmedia


    They were both crap!

    Physics next week will be fun!


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  • #7
    OxfordComma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 407 ✭✭OxfordComma


    bosmedia wrote: »
    They were both crap!

    Physics next week will be fun!

    Not as much fun as Biology I bet :p


  • #8
    oisinmc14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭oisinmc14


    so can you pass the maths exam by compensation or not?


  • #9
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    1fahy4 wrote: »
    Not as much fun as Biology I bet :p

    Ah, myself, bosmedia and reap-a-rat are all IT so we're not doing Biology.

    And what do ye mean by compensation?


  • #10
    oisinmc14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭oisinmc14


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    Ah, myself, bosmedia and reap-a-rat are all IT so we're not doing Biology.

    And what do ye mean by compensation?

    like if you get 30% in paper 1 and 80% in paper 2 will you pass the overall exam by adding the excess of paper 2 to paper 1


  • #11
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Only 5% as far as I know can be used for compensation


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  • #12
    daniel91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭daniel91


    anyone have a rough estimate when the results are released?


  • #13
    IsThisIt???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭IsThisIt???


    Is the pass rate def 45%
    Anyone know where to find pass rates for other subjects?


  • #14
    Viscaria
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Viscaria


    IsThisIt??? wrote: »
    Is the pass rate def 45%
    Anyone know where to find pass rates for other subjects?

    I thought it was 40% for all subjects, if its not I definitely failed.
    Ted Hurleys questions were tricky.:mad:


  • #15
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    IsThisIt??? wrote: »
    Is the pass rate def 45%
    Anyone know where to find pass rates for other subjects?

    No no no, it's 40%, I was just saying if I got 30% in one paper and 60% in another would it balance out at 45% (two percentages added together and divided by two).

    And here was I thinking I'd never use maths again after those exams... :rolleyes:


  • #16
    aido179
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭aido179


    from what i have heard from people who have done nui science exams before, (but this is by no means certain), a pass is 35% or 40% and as long as you get >25% you can compensate.


  • #17
    IsThisIt???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭IsThisIt???


    Thank Christ! Dodgy enough at 40%


  • #18
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    Just talking to a girl from second science there, she said its an overall pass from the two, well that's what it was last year anyway :D!! She said aswell that not many people actually fail maths!!


  • #19
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    reap-a-rat wrote: »
    Just talking to a girl from second science there, she said its an overall pass from the two, well that's what it was last year anyway :D!! She said aswell that not many people actually fail maths!!

    She hasn't seen an IT class before then :P

    I swear, by the end of fourth year, the business world will be seeing a whole load of mathematically challenged IT graduates! :D


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