Junior Cert Science Experiments

Indiego

So hows everyone getting on with the experiments?
I did the Biology and Physics ones, i finished them a few days ago and handed it up, and im pretty happy with how it went
Does everyone do these experiments in groups? or do you do it on your own? in my school we do it in groups of 3 and do the write ups individually (obviously lol)
I got a bit flustered by the conclusions part on the bio write up, as i wasnt really sure why what happened happened, but google resolved that mystery

For the experiments copy my teacher was telling us that we only had to write up what we had covered in class, and just write the method and diagram for all the other experiments, and she would leave them out of the marking and just mark everyone against whoever had the most written up :O im pretty sure thats not right lol so i was evil and i wrote up every experiment with results and conclusions too, which noone else is doing i guess i know who will be getting the full mark XD i wanted to cover myself too just incase my school gets inspected, why should i be lazy and waste the marks my teachers so stupid hahah

so how about the rest of you's?

chatterboxxx95

we did the physics and chemistry ones, ye, we done them in groups too, our teacher was useless with the conclusions bits, we kind of made up ours ourselves. a lot of people's physics readings turned out wrong in our class,so we had to make some of them up!:rolleyes:

spurious

chatterboxxx95 wrote: »

our teacher was useless with the conclusions bits, we kind of made up ours ourselves.

Er... it's YOU doing the exam - why would you think your teacher would make up the conclusions?

Astonishing.

Exoskeleton

Physics is fully done, just working on the last few pages of the Chemistry investigation.
Does anybody know when Coursework A (the lab copy) is due? My teacher keep saying it's at the end of the year, but I read in the Irish Independant Junior Cert supplement that you tick off all the experiments you have done in the green booklet where you write the experiments in, and that if you have two non-mandatory experiments done it can replace one mandatory experiment.

senses working overtime

Indiego wrote: »

So hows everyone getting on with the experiments?

I got a bit flustered by the conclusions part on the bio write up, as i wasnt really sure why what happened happened, but google resolved that mystery


What help did you get from google? Any good site appreciated

Indiego

senses working overtime wrote: »

Indiego wrote: »

So hows everyone getting on with the experiments?

I got a bit flustered by the conclusions part on the bio write up, as i wasnt really sure why what happened happened, but google resolved that mystery


What help did you get from google? Any good site appreciated

I cant remember any of the sites i found, and they seem to have dissappeared i spent a good few hours googling different things trying to find some answers and only found one or two sites with even slightly relavent info stooopid google lol

but if you have any questions id be glad to answer

DaleL487

All the Junior Cert Project Work for all Subjects except art is due in on friday. That Includes Coursework A for Science

spurious

The practical work for Environmental and Social Studies is not assessed until the examination period, so the closing date for the two ESS projects is the end of May.

Fizzical

As I posted on another thread a moment ago, the date issued before Christmas for the Science investigations was Fri May 6th. The recent exam schedule has the date as Fri April 15th. Our DP contacted the DES who confirmed that May 6th is the correct date.

Coursework A should be ticked off in the green booklet by that date also. This must be done before the booklet is sealed into the envelope.

chatterboxxx95

spurious wrote: »

Er... it's YOU doing the exam - why would you think your teacher would make up the conclusions?

Astonishing.

we didnt expect the teacher to make it up for us, he called out them in class, but they weren't right, they were controls instead of conclusions!:pac:

SChique00

I did the Chemistry and Physics ones; am freaking out because I didn't get the write-ups finished before the holidays! :eek: But a fella in my class is getting extended leave because of sickness so I can just sneak in with him. Am freaking out even more because I think I screwed up my graph for Chemistry!! I did in pen; yikes! Oh, as a matter of interest, did anyone get to take their reports home? We weren't

Desire.

SChique00 wrote: »

Oh, as a matter of interest, did anyone get to take their reports home? We weren't

Yeah, we were allowed to take ours home a good few nights. I'd say, in total, I had it at home for around a week or so. Handy out.

SChique00

Desire. wrote: »

Yeah, we were allowed to take ours home a good few nights. I'd say, in total, I had it at home for around a week or so. Handy out.

Aw no way! There's four form groups in our school and the other 3 were all allowed to take home their reports but our teacher told us that by taking them home they were basically cheating the system and disqualifying themselves from receiving a fair mark, and he didn't want us to cheat in the same situation as a written exam. Couldn't understand it because he's dead sound the rest of the time... what's the deadline for handing them in?

Desire.

SChique00 wrote: »

Aw no way! There's four form groups in our school and the other 3 were all allowed to take home their reports but our teacher told us that by taking them home they were basically cheating the system and disqualifying themselves from receiving a fair mark, and he didn't want us to cheat in the same situation as a written exam. Couldn't understand it because he's dead sound the rest of the time... what's the deadline for handing them in?

Pretty sure the deadline has passed, but since the deadline was during Easter, you'll be allowed hand it up after.

Does it really matter though? Are they not corrected at the same time as your written paper?