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!! LC Chemistry '16 HL - Before and after ...

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    #122
    louisoc
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭louisoc


    LordHypnos wrote: »
    I'd say it will be marked roughly given the generally good reaction to the paper

    ****e


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    #123
    Seaaan
    Registered Users Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Seaaan


    Why can't they just give the bell curve the finger and stick to the marking scheme, would make things so much simpler ugh


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    #124
    LordHypnos
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭LordHypnos


    Seaaan wrote: »
    Why can't they just give the bell curve the finger and stick to the marking scheme, would make things so much simpler ugh

    a teacher once told me they can only give out so many A's. I wonder if that's still the case and why?


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    #125
    onlinenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭onlinenerd


    I would say there might be schools with no As and schools with loads of As so it kinda equalises the marking


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    #126
    daraghwal
    Registered Users Posts: 946 ✭✭✭daraghwal


    LordHypnos wrote: »
    a teacher once told me they can only give out so many A's. I wonder if that's still the case and why?

    Yeah that's still the case. It's the bell curve. Only a certain percentage of students can get As etc.


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    #127
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    LordHypnos wrote: »
    a teacher once told me they can only give out so many A's. I wonder if that's still the case and why?

    No the bell curve is to ensure that roughly the same number of people get the same number of grades each year. Say for example the 2016 paper was easy and the 2015 paper was hard. Well then anyone could come and complain that they would have scored better a different year and that it wouldn't be fair. That's why the bell curve is there. If the paper is hard, the marking scheme is easier and vice versa. This way people would score roughly the same result regardless of what year they sit it. It's to ensure every year is of the same "difficulty" overall.

    By an easier paper, I mean that people scored better overall.


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    #128
    LordHypnos
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭LordHypnos


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    No the bell curve is to ensure that roughly the same number of people get the same number of grades each year. Say for example the 2016 paper was easy and the 2015 paper was hard. Well then anyone could come and complain that they would have scored better a different year and that it wouldn't be fair. That's why the bell curve is there. If the paper is hard, the marking scheme is easier and vice versa. This way people would score roughly the same result regardless of what year they sit it. It's to ensure every year is of the same "difficulty" overall.

    By an easier paper, I mean that people scored better overall.

    thanks for clarifying.


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    #129
    A97
    Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭A97


    LordHypnos wrote: »
    anyone know why the inside of the paper was white and not pink?

    That just happens to be the case for a few of the papers. I believe that it is particularly prominent in papers that have a lot of photos/diagrams in them.


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    #130
    medhopeful16
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭medhopeful16


    Seaaan wrote: »
    Why can't they just give the bell curve the finger and stick to the marking scheme, would make things so much simpler ugh

    I completely agree. You'd think that they would be delighted they have a particularly intelligent year but instead they take marks off of us. I have a feeling we're going to be marked hard in every paper this year(except bio). The general consensus in my school was that everything was fairly easy which worries the s*** out of me.


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    #131
    BrownTrout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭BrownTrout


    medhopeful16 wrote:
    I completely agree. You'd think that they would be delighted they have a particularly intelligent year but instead they take marks off of us. I have a feeling we're going to be marked hard in every paper this year(except bio). The general consensus in my school was that everything was fairly easy which worries the s*** out of me.


    They can't just give everyone A1s and 625 points like, how would 3rd level places be allocated then?


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    #132
    Seaaan
    Registered Users Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Seaaan


    medhopeful16 wrote: »
    I completely agree. You'd think that they would be delighted they have a particularly intelligent year but instead they take marks off of us. I have a feeling we're going to be marked hard in every paper this year(except bio). The general consensus in my school was that everything was fairly easy which worries the s*** out of me.

    Yeah most were fairly easy except bio.. At the same time I'm feeling a B1 in it :D

    Let's just hope I deserved that A2 so..


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    #133
    pleindespoir
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭pleindespoir


    I get random nightmares about Chemistry.

    I've never failed an exam and I'm ****ting about chemistry.


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    #134
    daraghwal
    Registered Users Posts: 946 ✭✭✭daraghwal


    pleindespoir wrote: »
    I get random nightmares about Chemistry.

    I've never failed an exam and I'm ****ting about chemistry.

    There is nothing you can do about it now. Put it behind you, forget about it and enjoy the summer


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