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12.5% fail ordinary maths

  • 17-08-2005 10:56am
    #1
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭


    madness :

    Exam results out today show that 12.5% of students who sat Ordinary Level maths failed to pass, as did 4.2% of students who sat the Higher Level paper.

    http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=152839822&p=y5z84x5z8

    thats a very high failure rate, very worrying for the future of the country, if it continues there will have to be major changes.


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  • #2
    flowerpotfrog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭flowerpotfrog


    very worrying for the future of the country, if it continues there will have to be major changes

    really, that just sounds to me like a few ppl didn't study and got caught. or a few ppl did OL when they should have done FL or done HL and should have done OL.

    i assume, by posting here, you're looking at it from a university point of view, well, if you can't pass maths you shouldn't be in university. thay may be a bit contraversial but i think it's mostly true.


  • #3
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    but it has to be the teaching, when you look at the stuff if you cant do it how are you living, how do you manage your money etc...


  • #4
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Call_me_al wrote:
    but it has to be the teaching, when you look at the stuff if you cant do it how are you living, how do you manage your money etc...
    Alot of people can't manage money properly.
    And anyway there is differenciation in OL maths isn't there? thats hardly a requirement for managing ones own finances.


  • #5
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    one question out of what 16? i know there is trig and stuff but come one did no-one else look at the past papers and think come on? i mean there obviously are hard parts and everyone makes mistakes but i just remember the circle question being a joke and some really simple algebra


  • #6
    a_ominous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭a_ominous


    Absolutely shockin'. Half the students failing maths! :rolleyes:

    There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those that understand binary and those that don't.


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  • #7
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,228 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


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  • #8
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    what da hell is with these lame posts?


  • #9
    snickerpuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭snickerpuss


    I don't really get how 12.5% failing ordinary maths is a big problem for the future of the country since they are evidently probably not wanting to work in anything maths related.
    I'm rubbish at maths, i got a C2 in ordinary (somehow) but i dont really think if i'd failed (like in my mocks and any maths exam ever) i'd be too stupid to manage my own finances. It means you're not good at geometry, calculus etc but not an actual idiot who cant manage their own money.


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