**HL Construction Studies 2013 Before/After**

Michael___

Could a question on passive house foundation come up?

Sean1996

Anyone have any ideas on what the Q1 could be? I'm guessing fireplace

Michael___

Sean1996 wrote: »

Anyone have any ideas on what the Q1 could be? I'm guessing fireplace

Section through suspended timber floor and concrete floor could come up... Maybe windows or an Eaves... I hope chimney comes up..

Sporty_Kate

Passive housing?? :S

stephenjmcd

Suspended timber was up in mocks, theres really no way of predicting this but they can only phase qs a bit differently, just go over your notes, its easy enough to know the course, and dont forget this exam isnt the end of the world you may have already passed the subject

C_Merr

Just wondering, would answers in bullets points, like what is given on the examinations.ie marking schemes be enough to get your marks for discussion?

Or would give the bullet point, and then expand on it?

007driver

what percent is this worth overall

stephenjmcd

007driver wrote: »

what percent is this worth overall

50

ConorIsCool18

Does anyone have any sites for notes or something? A bit confused on what could come up and what to look over tomorrow? any advice?

Trev64

ConorIsCool18 wrote: »

Does anyone have any sites for notes or something? A bit confused on what could come up and what to look over tomorrow? any advice?

www.constructionstudies.ie

LCstudent17

Since its tomorrow might aswell post it up.

Anyone with useful links or tips. As some topics aren't covered in the workbook

whaaa

http://constructionstudies.ie/ and just look over the marking schemes on examinations.ie too i'd say! Absolutely brickin myself

LCstudent17

whaaa wrote: »

http://constructionstudies.ie/ and just look over the marking schemes on examinations.ie too i'd say! Absolutely brickin myself

Same, we had some **** teacher

joeperry15

passive houses 100% ! U Value question 100% and question 1 compulsory ! be sound !

whaaa

my teachers fairly brutal as well. ya dont ever hear of any good construction teachers really! besides yer man who runs that website.
really disappointing too because its handy enough to do well in if ya know the stuff like!

LCstudent17

joeperry15 wrote: »

passive houses 100% ! U Value question 100% and question 1 compulsory ! be sound !

Our teacher didn't cover U-Values so I half covered it at home

joeperry15

our teacher done about an hours worth of theory with us he was a knob ! what else do ya think will come up ?

007driver

This will be my last exam, I can't wait!!!

joeperry15

007driver wrote: »

This will be my last exam, I can't wait!!!

ya ****er ya I have ag next Thursday then im dusht !

LCstudent17

Ok this is ment to be about consturction Studies.

My advice is know:

U-Values/Heat loss cost calculations

Passive house

Modifying a Existing dwelling (Look at past paper answers for that one)

007driver

U values come up every year, dont they

Sporty_Kate

LCstudent17 wrote: »

Ok this is ment to be about consturction Studies.

My advice is know:

U-Values/Heat loss cost calculations

Passive house

Modifying a Existing dwelling (Look at past paper answers for that one)

What is the passive house? Thats not the life-time use question is it?

LCstudent17

Sporty_Kate wrote: »

What is the passive house? Thats not the life-time use question is it?

It's question 10 every year.

You could probably link passive house with lifetime use but lifetime use also includes things like wheel chair accessibility

LCstudent17

007driver wrote: »

U values come up every year, dont they

Yup, easiest marks on the paper aswell

Sweeney143500

Does anyone think there might be a chance of something on drainage could come up? Knob of a teacher reckons it hasn't been up yet, even though it was up last year? That question 10 B can be okay too! There's nothing at all in our book about MHRV?

LCstudent17

Sweeney143500 wrote: »

Does anyone think there might be a chance of something on drainage could come up? Knob of a teacher reckons it hasn't been up yet, even though it was up last year? That question 10 B can be okay too! There's nothing at all in our book about MHRV?

Them books are gone out of date and don't cover a few questions.

007driver

can you bring in a calculator

joeperry15

LCstudent17 wrote: »

Ok this is ment to be about consturction Studies.

My advice is know:

U-Values/Heat loss cost calculations

Passive house

Modifying a Existing dwelling (Look at past paper answers for that one)

Im gonna back you on this one lad.. haha :-]

Sweeney143500

Would anybody else think that that study guide Trevor Hickey put up could be an idea of what is likely to come up? Site Safety would be a handy one. Most of the questions on that haven't come up in years, so there's a good possibility. Does he make the questions for the exam I wonder?

lisheen2308

id say
passive house
air tightness/mhrv all that stuff/solar gain
low enviromental impact house
u value
foundations
hot water systems
q1 hopefully a fireplace

lisheen2308

Sweeney143500 wrote: »

Would anybody else think that that study guide Trevor Hickey put up could be an idea of what is likely to come up? Site Safety would be a handy one. Most of the questions on that haven't come up in years, so there's a good possibility. Does he make the questions for the exam I wonder?

we have done absolutley nothing on site safety. i doubt he writes the paper surely he'd be in breach of some sort of contract not to reveal whats on the papers. hes probably just good at predicting, like our business teacher predicted todays paper spot on!

stephenjmcd

whats the fireplace drawing look like, we never did it, also why say fireplace, you cant predict it

LostBoy101

stephenjmcd wrote: »

whats the fireplace drawing look like, we never did it, also why say fireplace, you cant predict it

http://www.constructionstudies.ie/last-minute-lookovers-2013k.pdf It's on page 11 I think.

007driver

does anyone know how many drawings we are supposed to know,?

007driver

stephenjmcd wrote: »

whats the fireplace drawing look like, we never did it, also why say fireplace, you cant predict it

from looking through past exams I would predict the fireplace or suspended timber ground floor

LCstudent17

007driver wrote: »

can you bring in a calculator

Yes you can

stephenjmcd

Fingers crossed for suspended timber floor , much easier and we never did fire place

MartyP

hoping for decent exam.
chimney/suspended floor
u-value with heating cost
site safety
insulation
regular passive house question

Mickab1994

So ****ed for this exam!!!!

mayoman1995

Mickab1994 wrote: »

So ****ed for this exam!!!!

just learn uvalues passive house redesign and plumbing

LCstudent17

Can we answer an extra question?

mayoman1995

LCstudent17 wrote: »

Can we answer an extra question?

yeah but its tight enough for time

Sean1996

well ive looked over suspended solid, suspended timber, fireplace, cill so im hoping for anyone of these but fireplace the most

stephenjmcd

Well it was a stairs not to bad but had to do it from memory as hadnt looked over it , site safety was straight forward then environmental q was fine and redesign then house , did u values but did anyone think the wording was very odd on it , tough q I feel

stephenjmcd

Also is it a total score from all 3 exams that gives you your grade, I heard if you failed one part you failed the whole subject

Sweeney143500

That was the worst Construction exam I've ever done, didn't even go near the 1st question!

007driver

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Also is it a total score from all 3 exams that gives you your grade, I heard if you failed one part you failed the whole subject

its your total, from the chief examiner report you can see that people fail the paper but still pass the subject

stephenjmcd

007driver wrote: »

its your total, from the chief examiner report you can see that people fail the paper but still pass the subject

Ah ok, never read it , hopefully of doing well now

MartyP

wtf with the stairs? did nazi that comming, did jew?

LCstudent17

I thought it was ok.

Michael___

Paper was alright .... safe to say the people who did stairs as their project walked out happy -_- ..... that chimney question </3