Leaving Cert 2012-13 *OFF-TOPIC* (hideaway) thread

yournerd

Does anyone here go Leeson Street for extra classes? Im debating with myself and can't make up my mind

BrownBear11

Fridays are such a write off study-wise


Every damn week...

Monsieur Folie

Luckily there is Saturday Study. Without it, my weekends would be dismally unproductive. =P

yournerd

and does it help?

Copper_pipe

Anyone get their physics paper back? Ours was marked ridiculously hard!

BrownBear11

That's assuming I don't stay up 'till all hours tonight and completely miss Saturday morning again Why must I be nocturnal

Monsieur Folie

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Anyone get their physics paper back? Ours was marked ridiculously hard!

Yeah, but mine was marked by my teacher.. He was fair enough but I think he flies through the papers too fast, he has a tendency to overlook things. In one case I think he skipped a whole question or two of someone's work and in others he'd miss parts and if an answer is wrong he'll sometimes put an 'x' and leave it without looking through the method for correct steps to award marks for. I hope he doesn't Leaving Cert papers! :P

YoursSincerely

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Anyone get their physics paper back? Ours was marked ridiculously hard!

I haven't even sat my physics paper yet...

Prodigious

Physics is a pure and utter mess of a subject!

Lucan Bohs

Anyone get any results? Were they marked fair/hard?

decisions

The marking in physics has no consistency. And you would think that it being a subject that requires a good grasp of logic that they might just number the parts of a question so you don't miss anything, but no that would be too easy!

Copper_pipe

I'll give one example, this was in Q5

a barge is towed by two other boats with a force of 3000N east and the other with a force of 4000N north. What is the resultant force acting on the barge?

I wrote down the theorem of Pythagoras, drew a diagram, Subbed into the formula, Got 5000N in a north east direction and only got 4 marks out of 7

decisions

That looks like a perfect answer to me, was any explanation given?

Prodigious

You have to include

units and 45 degrees north of east

Copper_pipe

decisions wrote: »

That looks like a perfect answer to me, was any explanation given?

Not on the paper no, I was raging when I saw it. I'll just give one more example,

Name a precaution when measuring the resistivity of nichrome wire. I said clamp it tightly to the table to avoid any kinks which may effect the results. I got 0

decisions

Maybe it's just a bad habit I've picked up from applied maths but I always assumed North East was taken to equal 45'

Brendan1234

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I'll give one example, this was in Q5

a barge is towed by two other boats with a force of 3000N east and the other with a force of 4000N north. What is the resultant force acting on the barge?

I wrote down the theorem of Pythagoras, drew a diagram, Subbed into the formula, Got 5000N in a north east direction and only got 4 marks out of 7

You probably lost the marks because

it wasn't north east, it was like North 35ish degrees East,

but taking away 3 marks for that does seem a little harsh.

Leaving Cert Student

Physics aint a bad subject to be honest. No excuses if youre not getting near full marks in section A, its all fairly repetitive! Then section B Q5 short q's are a breeze once youve done the past papers... Q10 particle physics isnt too bad and q12 is sound because you have a lot of choice. Then 2 more q's out of 5 you should be able to find something you are good at; mechanics, heat, light, electricity etc.

I have to say it is one of the better subjects in my opinion. Although them not numbering the q's is the height of stubbornness, what do they have to gain?

Glee_GG

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I'll give one example, this was in Q5

a barge is towed by two other boats with a force of 3000N east and the other with a force of 4000N north. What is the resultant force acting on the barge?

I wrote down the theorem of Pythagoras, drew a diagram, Subbed into the formula, Got 5000N in a north east direction and only got 4 marks out of 7

you lost your marks because

your direction of the force is wrong, its not 45 north east its east tan`1 4/3 or 3/4 north, i cant remember which vaule was on which axis. You get 4 marks for the force value and 3 for direction

MGMTea

Anyone go to The Killers last night ? Unreal gig

Copper_pipe

Got a B2 in English paper 2 I won't complain about that

BrownBear11

Who's up for a bit if this http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=lc2013 later on tonight?












Yes, I realise I'm not Colm and have no right to attempt to instigate IRC sessions

Prodigious

I'll be there, what time ?

YoursSincerely

I'll drop in at some stage after 9

BrownBear11

Methememb wrote: »

I'll be there, what time ?

I'm not disciplined enough to stick to a specific time tbh. Shall we say night time? :pac:

Prodigious

Sounds good, dont be late :P :pac:

BrownBear11

Methememb wrote: »

Sounds good, dont be late :P :pac:

I could always troll you and show up ... in the morning :pac:

Prodigious

:eek:

bluejay14

I should make an appearance at some stage. Maybe 11ish

Prodigious

Liven up a bit would ya?