Junior Cert 2011: Maths Paper 1

rorrissey

Friday 10th June 2011.
Afternoon 2:00-4:00

All discussion and questions about Paper 1 goes here!

Good luck everyone!

rorrissey

Thought I'd make an offical looking thread for this one!
ANYWAY, I've had an awful maths teacher for the past year so I basically can't do anything anymore. I'll have to try cramming a bit tonight but it's fairly pointless at this stage I think. :L

Anyone have tips on how I can get as many attempt marks as possible? (:

Slow Show

rorrissey wrote: »

Anyone have tips on how I can get as many attempt marks as possible? (:

Attempt everything.:pac:

Can't wait. Love this paper so so so much, if it goes awful I may cry.

scipsss

ive been going over a few questions the past week but im not very confident
i always try each question and try to get that extra mark if i can!

TheRedDevil10

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The sexual tension between The Examiner and the 5th Year that brings in the tea.

cantanstrophe

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

The sexual tension between The Examiner and the 5th Year that brings in the tea.

I don't see how a joke copied from Facebook is relevant.

Desire.

The exam is two and a half hours, not two hours.

Cakes.

Meh

Going to my grinds teacher for an hour and a bit so hopefully do ok.

liamtimdusty

Sh*ting myself about this exam

cantanstrophe

I'm quite confident about this - am I right in thinking that there's little to no trig in Paper 1?

Desire.

cantanstrophe wrote: »

I'm quite confident about this - am I right in thinking that there's little to no trig in Paper 1?

You are correct.

liamtimdusty

cantanstrophe wrote: »

I'm quite confident about this - am I right in thinking that there's little to no trig in Paper 1?

None ^^

innovation.

I was one of the best in my class at maths up through until third year and found maths really enjoyable. This past year I've fell really behind. Paper 1 should be okay-ish tomorrow, paper 2 on the other hand... :eek: Should be fine for a C though, a B if I'm lucky.

cantanstrophe

Desire. wrote: »

You are correct.

liamtimdusty wrote: »

None ^^

Awesome

I love algebra and tax, so the paper should be OK.

innovation.

cantanstrophe wrote: »

Awesome

I love algebra and tax, so the paper should be OK.

You won't love tax once you get a job. :D

Indiego

Im so odd... I love Maths, thinking about getting to do maths on friday was all that kept me going through english and irish :L
I am completely prepared for maths, ive done all the paper 1's in my exam papers (2010 - 2003 and 7 sample papers) and then i did the 2001 and 2002 papers too (even though theyre different it was a good way to get me thinking differently :L)
Hope we get a nice paper :L

Good Luck everybody :L

The Floyd p

I'm really worried about maths. I'm awful at algebra! I'll see how I do.

Muffinless

I've been breezing through the exams so far, but I'm going to crash and burn on maths tomorrow.:(
I'm well and truly DOOMED

Desire.

Looking forward to this, I guess. Confident of the A - 93% in paper one in the Pre.

Hope functions don't feature too match. I can do the ones where you have to make out a table and graph but not general questions. I hope the quadratic equation is easy too. And I hope that thing where you have to write an expression for the area/perimeter doesn't come up. And I hope that surds, indices and all that crap doesn't come up in question one. Oh, or the thing where you have to sub in t or something and find two values.

I hope it's an easy paper like Irish and English paper ones.

Doublechinlolz

Desire. wrote: »

Looking forward to this, I guess. Confident of the A - 93% in paper one in the Pre.

Hope functions don't feature too match. I can do the ones where you have to make out a table and graph but not general questions. I hope the quadratic equation is easy too. And I hope that thing where you have to write an expression for the area/perimeter doesn't come up. And I hope that surds, indices and all that crap doesn't come up in question one. Oh, or the thing where you have to sub in t or something and find two values.

I hope it's an easy paper like Irish and English paper ones.

Haha sounds like you're hoping the whole paper away :L I just hope i get a ****in A, My mam will kill me shes got me **** loads of grinds Fingers crossed anyhow

robman60

I'm not really stressed at all, but I should have done a little more work tonight. I did two maths questions which is the first I've done in a few days. I feel slightly compelled to get an A seeing as my mother teaches it.

Slow Show

I've decided to work through the paper slowly and carefully as I flew through it with an hour to spare in the mocks and made lots of small mistakes. My average for paper 1 was three questions per 40-minute class, so slowing down shouldn't hurt. I need to have a glance over indices, just that surd multiplication thing. I actually understood it last week, just need to refresh my memory now! And I quite like functions now, I somewhat enjoy the trickier C parts. I actually like nearly everything on paper 1, especially algebra.

Ha, I love paper 1! I've never felt as confident for an exam before, it'll probably be terrible now.

matthew8

Maths is in the bag. No need to study for me.

shadowninty

Wheeeeeee

P H A 7V T O M

lol Ordinary Level.

I'm gonna have a stab at 100 % . Past papers are painfully easy. Surely there should be some other level in between?

I called it! : Ordihigher Level, or Highrdinary level?

ScummyMan

For maths, all we need is a calculator and pens yeah? Protractors and stuff isnt till Monday is it?

P H A 7V T O M

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

For maths, all we need is a calculator and pens yeah? Protractors and stuff isnt till Monday is it?

Yup. Are we given logtables?

ScummyMan

P H A 7V T O M wrote: »

Yup. Are we given logtables?

Think so yeah.

TheRedDevil10

you'd need a ruler to draw the graph :cool:

cantanstrophe

Easiest exam yet! I left an hour early, and I'm sure I got an A on the Higher Paper.

Addition on the tax question! Just adding up sums! Dafuq?

mixery

Walked out of OL after about 45 minutes. I think a high B so far, like I was expecting. Factorising suxx .

icanplaydrums

Eassssssssssy. Well, everything going brilliantly up till Q6 c) which I couldn't do at all. Other than that, a walk in the park. Provided Paper 2 isn't harder than it already it is, I got at least a B secured

Indiego

that was so easy!!!! :O
I finished the exam in an hour, checked over everything 10 times, had a nap, checked everything again, and walked outta there at 3:45 :0
I was the only h.l student to leave early, and they were all like wtf!? when I left :L
q6 c was hard enough, I knew the answers, but I didn't know how to get them, so I kinda made up my own way in scribbled writing :L
I wrote all my answers on my paper so if I have any doubts I can check :L woooooo hope paper two goes as well :L

P H A 7V T O M

Indiego wrote: »

that was so easy!!!!
:O
:0
:L
:L
:L
:L

I did not insert any of the above quote.

While I'm at it I just want to say : :L

lol OL was simply put a joke, how someone does not achieve a high A on it is beyond me. If Paper II is that easy.... Oh wait, it's even easier!

scipsss

Indiego wrote: »

that was so easy!!!! :O
I finished the exam in an hour, checked over everything 10 times, had a nap, checked everything again, and walked outta there at 3:45 :0
I was the only h.l student to leave early, and they were all like wtf!? when I left :L
q6 c was hard enough, I knew the answers, but I didn't know how to get them, so I kinda made up my own way in scribbled writing :L
I wrote all my answers on my paper so if I have any doubts I can check :L woooooo hope paper two goes as well :L

'flying' through it in a hour doesnt sound too god you really must have rushed :L and 45 mins earlier than it ended ...

cantanstrophe

scipsss wrote: »

'flying' through it in a hour doesnt sound too god you really must have rushed :L and 45 mins earlier than it ended ...

I might have done something really stupid, but I checked about five times over and over again, and I flew through it in about an hour, so...

Lollipop95

P H A 7V T O M wrote: »

I did not insert any of the above quote.

While I'm at it I just want to say : :L

lol OL was simply put a joke, how someone does not achieve a high A on it is beyond me. If Paper II is that easy.... Oh wait, it's even easier!

:rolleyes: < that's not intented to be rude btw. Maybe because some people just can't grasp maths? Like me,for instance. I did foundation(as someone who has been absolutely disastrous all my life) and found it pretty impossbile. Some people just CANNOT do maths.

Desire.

That was grand... I got an A! :pac:

Didn't get the answer to two questions but I did the right method so I'll get a few marks.

I managed to do 6C. I was shocked since Functions are my worst topic in maths. I actually couldn't do part i or ii... and when I was doing iii, I figured out ii... and then I was able to work out i.

6C, i, was (0,1) and (0,3), k was -1, if anyone is wondering.

TheRedDevil10

Maths was so hard

P H A 7V T O M

Lollipop95 wrote: »

:rolleyes: < that's not intented to be rude btw. Maybe because some people just can't grasp maths? Like me,for instance. I did foundation(as someone who has been absolutely disastrous all my life) and found it pretty impossbile. Some people just CANNOT do maths.

Ah. No offence intended. It's most likely due to the fact I did HL, but could only just about pass. My reason for going OL is that I'd (and my parents also) would pick an A on OL over 55 or so on HL, which I'd be lucky to achieve.

PS- Why the hell did I come up with a straight line on Q6 (ie, linear)??? I realized just there it should have been a curve.

Oh yeah, by ther way answer this:

What is:

x^+3x-10=0??? I got the square root of 13, and I was like "lulwut?" . By the way the "^", means squared.

thanks

Lucan Bohs

Q 1 & 2 were decent, 3,4 &5 alright but 6 was rock hard

On Q1c what did anybody get as the exchange rate?

Desire.

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

Q 1 & 2 were decent, 3,4 &5 alright but 6 was rock hard

On Q1c what did anybody get as the exchange rate?

9.6 rand = €1.

omg a kitty

that was bleedin solid

Lucan Bohs

Desire. wrote: »

9.6 rand = €1.

Do you remember how? I got 10.39 Rand, I knew it couldn't have been the answer but couldn't work out a different way

ScummyMan

Desire. wrote: »

I managed to do 6C. I was shocked since Functions are my worst topic in maths. I actually couldn't do part i or ii... and when I was doing iii, I figured out ii... and then I was able to work out i.

6C, i, was (0,1) and (0,3), k was -1, if anyone is wondering.

(1,0) and (3,0) you mean?

Oh, and i got 9.6 rand aswell.

Delighted with that paper, nothing i couldnt do. My first two As today

omg a kitty

P H A 7V T O M wrote: »

Ah. No offence intended. It's most likely due to the fact I did HL, but could only just about pass. My reason for going OL is that I'd (and my parents also) would pick an A on OL over 55 or so on HL, which I'd be lucky to achieve.

PS- Why the hell did I come up with a straight line on Q6 (ie, linear)??? I realized just there it should have been a curve.

Oh yeah, by ther way answer this:

What is:

x^+3x-10=0??? I got the square root of 13, and I was like "lulwut?" . By the way the "^", means squared.

thanks

(x+5)(x-2)?

Desire.

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

Do you remember how? I got 10.39 Rand, I knew it couldn't have been the answer but couldn't work out a different way

No, but I'll have a look at the question tonight and I'll let you know.

You had to take away the bank's charge and then you were left with €600. Then I had €600 = the amount of rand. And then I divided the rand by €600 and got 9.6.

I don't know if that's it though, I'll check later when I have my paper.

omg a kitty

Lucan Bohs wrote: »

Do you remember how? I got 10.39 Rand, I knew it couldn't have been the answer but couldn't work out a different way

i got 1% of 630 multiplied it by 100 to get 100%, then i divided it by the rands

cathalio11

Can somebody clarify that these are the right answers for QUESTION 1

A. Total Prize Fund: 60,000 euro

B. (i) Difference in diameter: 1.089x10(5)

(ii) 3(1/2) (3 powered to a half.)

C. (i) 2 and 1.8

(ii) 1 euro = 9.6 Rand

Slow Show

Awwwww lads. I got an answer for every single question, and I only expect to lose a few marks through small slips/blunders. It was lovely <3333 And I found 6C to be quite easy once I began it. Also, a lot of people in my year said they found it hard so errr yay! Although maths isn't subjective so it's no biggie, and as long as I don't mess up paper 2, I should get an A!

Now to really study for paper 2 this weekend, I really don't want to jeopardise this.

ScummyMan

Yeah i got all them anyway cathalio