***JC 2014 Maths Paper One - Fri. June 6th 2014 - all levels***

ComputerKing

Functions question is 50 marks and I'm fairly sure (99%) that the functions question is marked using the old way not the project maths way cause we're not doing project maths functions. Also what was up with the y being equal to 3.3333333•

Xgracie

Beca19 wrote: »

No? Project maths HL p1? :P

Maybe I didn't read it right! The last one?

smiles_1998

ComputerKing wrote: »

Functions question is 59 marks and I'm fairly sure (99%) that the functions question is marked using the old way not the project maths way cause we're not doing project maths functions. Also what was up with the y being equal to 3.3333333•

Yeah I heard somewhere too that the new Project Maths style of functions isn't being rolled out until next year...

Emmie123

I have to do excellently on paper 2 if I want an A. If I do the same as I did today on paper two then I should be looking at a B hopefully!

Fwiz

yvngceebs wrote: »

The question about Ciara's pocket money and Miriam's laps were tricky, I think. Thought it was a fair paper, though

I found the last question hard and the one that was like "How can you find 3 to the power of 9 using 3 to the power of 8 = so-and-so?". Once you work out Miriam's laps it's quite a fun question to do, I liked drawing my line

ComputerKing

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Yeah I heard somewhere too that the new Project Maths style of functions isn't being rolled out until next year...

Ya that's why we did functions from the little booklet that came with our book. In project maths functions I think they have to do exponential functions.

Beca19

Xgracie wrote: »

Maybe I didn't read it right! The last one?

No look at the page before our graphs were different!:)

Beca19

JWM12 wrote: »

There's different phases? Ta me confused

Yeah we're a pilot school so we're a stage ahead of everyone else I think?:) that's why the exponential functions were included in our paper not the phase 2

smiles_1998

ComputerKing wrote: »

Ya that's why we did functions from the little booklet that came with our book. In project maths functions I think they have to do exponential functions.

:O a booklet?!
What maths book did ye use?!
Btw how do you know the marks for the functions question?

DoktorFrog

What a lovely paper!! 50 Marks for that Question 14, which is great as it was easy. I would watch out for Paper 2 though. Personally, I found Paper 2's to be harder in English and Irish so I am going to take extra care to study for it!

I really liked that question with the labelling the graphs with the container, reallyyy easy!

Good luck guys c:

Also, note this for P2. If its an easy paper and loads of people get high grades, bare minimum A's could get dropped. - apparently SEC have exam quota bands for grades

Jcxx

Was it just me or did anyone else think ordinary level was really hard compared to like sample papers ??

ComputerKing

smiles_1998 wrote: »

:O a booklet?!
What maths book did ye use?!
Btw how do you know the marks for the functions question?

Active maths 2 and its defo 50 cause in the pre I was the only one who got full marks in it cause no one else had done functions and our teacher said it would be 50 in the JC.

00cm

ComputerKing wrote: »

M was the slope it's the same as any equation of the line for co ordinate geometry of the line

Yeah I completely messed that up, my slope was all wrong in more places than one. That whole question.. I made a whole mess out of it, might make up it for Paper 2 though

tedobrien98

Was Elena owed any tax credits at all?
From what I could make of it, she didn't pay enough tax last year and that's what I put down, but that's surely wrong.

Liordi

tedobrien98 wrote: »

Was Elena owed any tax credits at all?
From what I could make of it, she didn't pay enough tax last year and that's what I put down, but that's surely wrong.

I got her credits to be 3300.

ComputerKing

00cm wrote: »

Yeah I completely messed that up, my slope was all wrong in more places than one. That whole question.. I made a whole mess out of it, might make up it for Paper 2 though

Hopefully you can make up for it in paper 2 and does anyone know if the curve applies in maths cause most people I know found the paper very hard so hopefully if it does we might do better.

ComputerKing

Liordi wrote: »

I got her credits to be 3300.

Same it was 3300

Liordi

ComputerKing wrote: »

Hopefully you can make up for it in paper 2 and does anyone know if the curve applies in maths cause most people I know found the paper very hard so hopefully if it does we might do better.

Yeah, it applies in every subject, think I can say goodbye to my A, though..

pianoperson

Oh my god I just realized I forgot to write my calculator make ! will I lose marks?!!!!! I was so happy with the paper but now I'm so worried about this

smiles_1998

ComputerKing wrote: »

Active maths 2 and its defo 50 cause in the pre I was the only one who got full marks in it cause no one else had done functions and our teacher said it would be 50 in the JC.

Whew...we have Tests and Tests and I was beginning to panic about not having a booklet! Oh okay- I actually love functions so hopefully that will bring up my marks I am quite happy with the paper overall though!

beccatw

I think I'm gonna have to rely on attempt marks for this paper, atleast I prefer p2 nyway :')

Emmie123

Did everybody really have that many issues with the graph at the end? I found that to be one of the easiest things on that paper

fuhiero

yomtea98 wrote: »

What did ye get for n2-n1+41 when n=41?

i said that for the formula to work you had to square the number, take away the number being squared and add 41, so b/c 41 was the number being squared it didnt work b/c when you had to take the number being squared (41) away from it and you just added it(41) back on so you were just left w/ 'n' or 41 squared

ComputerKing

smiles_1998 wrote: »

Whew...we have Tests and Tests and I was beginning to panic about not having a booklet! Oh okay- I actually love functions so hopefully that will bring up my marks I am quite happy with the paper overall though!

Haha well most people had lost it so the teacher just made up a functions chapter for us from a few books. How did you find text and tests we used it in first year and I thought I wasn't great but then we moved to active maths so it was all good.

Fifii

Emmie123 wrote: »

Did everybody really have that many issues with the graph at the end? I found that to be one of the easiest things on that paper

Could you tell me what the ranges were in the last two parts?:)

Chloee98

pianoperson wrote: »

Oh my god I just realized I forgot to write my calculator make ! will I lose marks?!!!!! I was so happy with the paper but now I'm so worried about this

I forgot too!

ComputerKing

Emmie123 wrote: »

Did everybody really have that many issues with the graph at the end? I found that to be one of the easiest things on that paper

I thought it was grand but I did have one point that wasn't on my u shaped curve.

Liordi

Gonna post my answers here
http://www.examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2014/JC003ALP100EV.pdf
Someone tell me if I'm right or wrong on any..

7 (iii) 28%, idk why but based on the question I think it's 28% not 19%?
8 (iii) 7.4s
10 (a) -3 and 3 (really didn't get this question the way it was phrased)
(b) Equations x^2 - x - 6 and x^2 + x -6?

Kelly090

Fifii wrote: »

Could you tell me what the ranges were in the last two parts?:)

Yeah please^ that would be great

Mr Rhode Island Red

For f(x) being less than 0: -1.4 < x < 2 (the -1.4 depended on the accuracy of your graph)

For g(x) being more than or equal to 0: x ≥ 1 (or maybe it was 2, I forget)

I think