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A fault with the new extra points for Higher Maths scheme!

  • 10-01-2012 11:09pm
    #1
    tazmanian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭


    So hear me out. I'm doing higher Maths for Leaving Cert and they have this new policy: if you get over a D3 and Maths is one of your top 6 subjects then you get +25 points. But there's the rub, if Maths has to be in the top 6 then wouldn't this policy encourage students to purposely dumb down their second weakest subject just to make sure that Maths gets into their top 6? For example: I'm doing pass Irish, so if I get an A in that (60 points) and a D in maths (45 points, excluding the 25), I will lose 10 points, as Irish will be put in my top 6 rather than Maths. What's fascinating about this scenario is that; if I had gone into my Irish exam and answered one of the questions in French to hinder my Irish result below my Maths result, I would have done better in the Leaving Cert point scheme! I'm seriously considering doing this.
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  • #2
    K_1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭K_1


    tazmanian wrote: »
    So hear me out. I'm doing higher Maths for Leaving Cert and they have this new policy: if you get over a D3 and Maths is one of your top 6 subjects then you get +25 points. But there's the rub, if Maths has to be in the top 6 then wouldn't this policy encourage students to purposely dumb down their second weakest subject just to make sure that Maths gets into their top 6? For example: I'm doing pass Irish, so if I get an A in that (60 points) and a D in maths (45 points, excluding the 25), I will lose 10 points, as Irish will be put in my top 6 rather than Maths. What's fascinating about this scenario is that; if I had gone into my Irish exam and answered one of the questions in French to hinder my Irish result below my Maths result, I would have done better in the Leaving Cert point scheme! I'm seriously considering doing this.

    They won't count it as 45, they'll count it as 70, so that it is therefore higher than Irish, and gets counted, and you get an extra 10 points.

    It's set up like this so that if you get, say all b1's in your other 6, and a d3 in maths, then you won't get any bonus points for having done honours.


  • #3
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    not true, your maths would be counted. ahead of the irish


  • #4
    tazmanian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭tazmanian


    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    not true, your maths would be counted. ahead of the irish

    Ahhh I see, thanks for the heads up guys :)


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