Resetting Business Paper to make it fair?

suitcasepink

My post wasnt directed at you? I didnt quote you!

suitcasepink

soccymonster wrote: »

deise was just making a statement not directly at you

Looks like ye won't be resitting the exam guys from the reading of that article.

I wonder if the statement about all 3rd years repeating exams throughout the summer was wrong too?

Damn I need to learn History... :mad:

soccymonster

deise_girl wrote: »

I wonder if the statement about all 3rd years repeating exams throughout the summer was wrong too?

Damn I need to learn History... :mad:

Were you serious about that?
Sarcasm doesn't come through well on the keypad :P

suitcasepink

soccymonster wrote: »

Were you serious about that?
Sarcasm doesn't come through well on the keypad :P

:P I made it up obviously!!!
Now srsly I NEED to learn history, gawd its long.. Imma just skip most the first year stuff...

kevin12345

deise_girl wrote: »

:P I made it up obviously!!!
Now srsly I NEED to learn history, gawd its long.. Imma just skip most the first year stuff...

im here typing up notes for myself because I seriously don't want to write them :P I'll get up at 8 tomorrow and learn the people in history's. Do you have french tomorrow too deise?

suitcasepink

kevin12345 wrote: »

im here typing up notes for myself because I seriously don't want to write them :P I'll get up at 8 tomorrow and learn the people in history's. Do you have french tomorrow too deise?

Yea I do, dunno when Im gonna learn that though Tomorrow Ill just look at a few phrases for the letter and postcard, shur it'll be grand..

Sorry for this going OT..

patakadarragh

They wont bother for the jc id say....there were 2 mistakes that werent mentioned in the q's i did....the first was they only gave the one adresss for two diff people...the 2nd was a right mess on the cash flow forecast question completely threw my answer.....tbh the mistake in qst 2 didnt make a huge difference and they will probably just give the marks for whatever people write down, however the mistake in the cash flow qst completely affects your answer and the right answer was impossible to get afaik.
The fairest thing the can do is give full marks to everyone for the cash flow forecast as because of the way the way the qst is laid out(continous balance or whatever you call it)that one mistake would lose you like 7/8 marks me thinks.

How in gods name did they get that figure for the cash flow forecast its completely wrong like!

padocon

Vivara wrote: »

RTÉ News article that mentions the thread in the Leaving Cert. forum and gives an official statement from the SEC on the situation today.

Ed.

Thanks for all the posts in this thread Ed. Very interesting!

Anamchara72

Someone failed to check the two B S papers before printing that's not good enough the person in charge must take responsibility but the buck will probably be passed down the line!!didn't affect me it was obviously sloppy my teacher would go mental if I made all those mistakes

_rebelkid

patakadarragh wrote: »

They wont bother for the jc id say....there were 2 mistakes that werent mentioned in the q's i did....the first was they only gave the one adresss for two diff people...the 2nd was a right mess on the cash flow forecast question completely threw my answer.....tbh the mistake in qst 2 didnt make a huge difference and they will probably just give the marks for whatever people write down,

Question two wasnt a mistake, the person who was filling out the form lived with his parents all his life, so having his father as guarantor would obviously result in the same address.

Question six actually had two mistakes, the figure was written as 69000 when it should have been 39500, but they calculated it as 69500, which took me 20 minutes to figure out!! :mad:

patakadarragh

huh if he was living with his parents why was he hogan and they keogh?

BeanoNotHere

_rebelkid wrote: »

Question two wasnt a mistake, the person who was filling out the form lived with his parents all his life, so having his father as guarantor would obviously result in the same address.

Question six actually had two mistakes, the figure was written as 69000 when it should have been 39500, but they calculated it as 69500, which took me 20 minutes to figure out!! :mad:

This is what im talking about. They are thinking of resetting it for people like this who wasted 20 minutes of the exam trying to figure out if they were wrong or what. So its only fair we re sit it

Vivara

BeanoNotHere wrote: »

This is what im talking about. They are thinking of resetting it for people like this who wasted 20 minutes of the exam trying to figure out if they were wrong or what. So its only fair we re sit it

I think what they should do something similar to what they do for Latin unseens with Paper II. If you answers are 'reasonably in tune' with what's there, and you haven't left any blanks, they should scrap the marking scheme and give full marks plus extra for overall impression. Only kidding.

Seriously, just because you couldn't figure it out doesn't mean you should waste your time that eat's into other questions. What if everything was correct and you couldn't figure it out? You seriously would not move on? That's a time management issue and nothing really to do with the paper.

I do however agree that this error may throw people off a bit but I don't think it would drastically affect the other questions unless you had poor time management. I think they should certainly take the stress of something like this into account, but resitting a Junior Certificate exam is a bit over-the-top.

Ed.

_rebelkid

patakadarragh wrote: »

huh if he was living with his parents why was he hogan and they keogh?

whoops, i did the wrong question:( sorry!

_rebelkid

BeanoNotHere wrote: »

This is what im talking about. They are thinking of resetting it for people like this who wasted 20 minutes of the exam trying to figure out if they were wrong or what. So its only fair we re sit it

but even with that twenty minutes wasted, i still came out early!:D

Read in the paper today that a re-sit was out ruled by SEC Although some teachers were protesting for a re-sit :eek: Silly teachers, we get our compensation, leave it that way :rolleyes:

Kevin!

Deleted User wrote: »

Read in the paper today that a re-sit was out ruled by SEC Although some teachers were protesting for a re-sit :eek: Silly teachers, we get our compensation, leave it that way :rolleyes:

There are allot of people who are happy with there overall examination in buisness, so the teachers would have been protesting for them. This year it was a particularly easy exam so with a second shot, we might not have been that lucky.