Ag science project panic

Jmmd2000

I'm starting 6th year next Wednesday and I'm in a panic. I'm doing sheep, potatoes and silage for my project. I have 9 pictures for sheep, no pictures for spuds and 1 for silage. Am i completely screwed? How important is the project? It's only worth 30/100 marks isn't it? So that's roughly 7.5% overall. What would happe if I were to hand up a half finished project?

spurious

Jmmd2000 wrote: »

I'm starting 6th year next Wednesday and I'm in a panic. I'm doing sheep, potatoes and silage for my project. I have 9 pictures for sheep, no pictures for spuds and 1 for silage. Am i completely screwed? How important is the project? It's only worth 30/100 marks isn't it? So that's roughly 7.5% overall. What would happe if I were to hand up a half finished project?

AFAIK, Ag Science is out of a total of 400 marks - 300 for the paper, 100 for the project, so the project is worth 25%. Where did you get 7.5%?
Well worth getting a good mark on.

You have til April to get your project for 2018 done. No reason to be flapping now.

Jmmd2000

spurious wrote: »

AFAIK, Ag Science is out of a total of 400 marks - 300 for the paper, 100 for the project, so the project is worth 25%. Where did you get 7.5%?
Well worth getting a good mark on.

You have til April to get your project for 2018 done. No reason to be flapping now.

I read somewhere that the actual project is worth 30 out of those 100 marks. 15 for the livestock and 15 for the crops. The other 70 marks are for the experiment copy and the plant/animal identification. So 30/100 by 25% is 7.575757%. Is that not how it goes?

spurious

Jmmd2000 wrote: »

I read somewhere that the actual project is worth 30 out of those 100 marks. 15 for the livestock and 15 for the crops. The other 70 marks are for the experiment copy and the plant/animal identification. So 30/100 by 25% is 7.575757%. Is that not how it goes?

You will have to wait for an actual Ag. Sc. corrector to answer that, but I know from correcting other projects, an overall view would also be taken. You can't just leave bits out, but there is plenty of time to get it done properly.

Jmmd2000

spurious wrote: »

You will have to wait for an actual Ag. Sc. corrector to answer that, but I know from correcting other projects, an overall view would also be taken. You can't just leave bits out, but there is plenty of time to get it done properly.

There's bits of the project that I won't get pictures of, because I failed to get them last year and they won't be done before April again. So what should I do in that situation?

rainbowtrout

Jmmd2000 wrote: »

I'm starting 6th year next Wednesday and I'm in a panic. I'm doing sheep, potatoes and silage for my project. I have 9 pictures for sheep, no pictures for spuds and 1 for silage. Am i completely screwed? How important is the project? It's only worth 30/100 marks isn't it? So that's roughly 7.5% overall. What would happe if I were to hand up a half finished project?

Presumably your teacher has set a deadline to hand it up next week. The official Dept deadline is the end of March. The whole country hasn't stopped making silage and tending to their livestock this week. Get out to a local farm and start taking some pictures.

But to answer your question, if you submit a half finished project by next March don't expect full marks.

spurious wrote: »

AFAIK, Ag Science is out of a total of 400 marks - 300 for the paper, 100 for the project, so the project is worth 25%. Where did you get 7.5%?
Well worth getting a good mark on.

The project is broken down into several components: livestock and crops are worth 25 of the 100 marks on offer for the project.

Jmmd2000 wrote: »

I read somewhere that the actual project is worth 30 out of those 100 marks. 15 for the livestock and 15 for the crops. The other 70 marks are for the experiment copy and the plant/animal identification. So 30/100 by 25% is 7.575757%. Is that not how it goes?

It's now 10 for livestock, that changed a couple of years ago.

spurious wrote: »

You will have to wait for an actual Ag. Sc. corrector to answer that, but I know from correcting other projects, an overall view would also be taken. You can't just leave bits out, but there is plenty of time to get it done properly.

No overall view. There are 11 components in the ag project with marks allocated to each. Candidates must complete specific criteria to be awarded marks.

Plant Identification 10
Animal Identification 10

Livestock 10
Farm Plan 10
Crops (2 crops) 15

Soil Science 10
Plant Physiology 10
Ecology 10
Genetics 5
Animal Physiology 5
Microbiology 5

Jmmd2000 wrote: »

There's bits of the project that I won't get pictures of, because I failed to get them last year and they won't be done before April again. So what should I do in that situation?

You'll have to come up with Plan B. What were you doing that you didn't bother to get photos when you needed them?

Jmmd2000

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Presumably your teacher has set a deadline to hand it up next week. The official Dept deadline is the end of March. The whole country hasn't stopped making silage and tending to their livestock this week. Get out to a local farm and start taking some pictures.

But to answer your question, if you submit a half finished project by next March don't expect full marks.



The project is broken down into several components: livestock and crops are worth 25 of the 100 marks on offer for the project.



It's now 10 for livestock, that changed a couple of years ago.



No overall view. There are 11 components in the ag project with marks allocated to each. Candidates must complete specific criteria to be awarded marks.

Plant Identification 10
Animal Identification 10

Livestock 10
Farm Plan 10
Crops (2 crops) 15

Soil Science 10
Plant Physiology 10
Ecology 10
Genetics 5
Animal Physiology 5
Microbiology 5






You'll have to come up with Plan B. What were you doing that you didn't bother to get photos when you needed them?

I had family problems that prevented me from getting out to take pictures. Was I correct about the 7.5% or thereabouts since its changed? Like if I were to hand up an incomplete project, would i still be able to get an A1 in overall if I did extremely well in the written?

rainbowtrout

Jmmd2000 wrote: »

I had family problems that prevented me from getting out to take pictures. Was I correct about the 7.5% or thereabouts since its changed? Like if I were to hand up an incomplete project, would i still be able to get an A1 in overall if I did extremely well in the written?

Go and find someone else's farm and take pictures on them instead of handing up a half finished project. There's plenty of time.

Jmmd2000

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Go and find someone else's farm and take pictures on them instead of handing up a half finished project. There's plenty of time.

Ok😊 thanks for the help lads

X6.430macman

10 pages per project will do. I overdid mine. Biggest load of tripe

Jmmd2000

X6.430macman wrote: »

10 pages per project will do. I overdid mine. Biggest load of tripe

As in 10 pages for sheep, 10 for spuds etc?