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Leaving Cert OL maths?!

Ciarajohnstone · 2017-05-21 14:56:41

I was just wondering if you didn't get the final answer in a question right but you got most of the question right (like used the correct formula etc) do you still get marks?

21-05-2017 03:56PM

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Ciarajohnstone

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I was just wondering if you didn't get the final answer in a question right but you got most of the question right (like used the correct formula etc) do you still get marks?

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#2 21-05-2017 04:18PM

carefulnowted

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Yes, of course you do. Have a look at some past maths marking schemes and you'll see that answers are graded on a scale. For example, for a 10 mark question, you can get 6 to 8 marks for writing down the correct formula, filling in the numbers etc but not getting the right answer. If you just make a slight calculation error that results in the incorrect answer, you can get 9 marks.

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