Chemistry: the write up of mandatory experiments

themne7

Hi all,
I've been wondering this for a very very very long time. Is it obligatory to write up the mandatory experiments? As in will somebody check them?

I've been searching online and I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know?

I'm pretty behind on my write ups, so if it's necessary I gotta get to it asap.

Thanks ^_^

Bazinga_N

As far as I know there's no guarantee it'll be checked, but there's a chance it could be checked and if it's found you don't have them wrote up, you can be withheld from sitting the leaving cert chemistry exam, so better safe than sorry!

Not sure how correct this is, but this is what my chemistry teacher told us anyways.

spurious

It's not really worth taking the chance.

themne7

Okay that's good to know thanks. My friends keep telling me that it isn't mandatory and I'm not a risk taker.
I've been writing up my physics one. It's a little silly how we have to write it up but it doesn't count for anything...

Thanks

pleindespoir

Is this what wait no our class dont write up experiment, well atleast for chem. We just have an experiment book and handouts.

Bazinga_N

pleindespoir wrote: »

Is this what wait no our class dont write up experiment, well atleast for chem. We just have an experiment book and handouts.

Pretty sure the experiment books counts as writing them up. It just needs to act as 'proof' that you actually did the experiments.

ABCE

So do they just need to be written up as a sign of evidence or are they marked?

OMGeary

ABCE wrote: »

So do they just need to be written up as a sign of evidence or are they marked?

Just as evidence I think. You get no marks for actually writing them up as you do in Junior Cert. The only marks for experiments are what you answer on the actual paper.

ABCE

Ahh, so no need to spend hours on it then.I'll just jot down the main points into the lab copy then lol.

Mahmoudsaid_1

Just do it on your lab copy