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how did everyone get on in maths 2??

  • 09-06-2008 03:36PM
    #1
    cork 111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭


    how did ye get on??


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  • #2
    ciano1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,151 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Twas a cũnt of a paper

    Nice theroms came up though


  • #3
    cork 111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭cork 111


    yeah liked the thermons i taut area and volume and da cord geom wasnt 2 bad either! the rest was hard enough:(


  • #4
    skittles16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭skittles16


    dose any one have the slutions or no were u can get them ....


  • #5
    cork 111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭cork 111


    avent a clue lyk to know if ya can get them anywhere??


  • #6
    sheeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭sheeez


    **** hard:(:(
    theorems were grand but the rest ooohhh!oh wel statics wz sinch!:D
    i didnt have enough time really either!


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  • #7
    BallerinaBabe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭BallerinaBabe


    I thought questions 1 and 2 were grand..
    question 3 was ok but the last part of c was hard enough..
    question 4 wasn't great.. question 5 was awful and 6 was pretty easy..


    4 and 5 were definitely the worst..

    as for the solutions maybe we could just talk about them here??


  • #8
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #9
    winner92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭winner92


    I was happy enough with the whole paper but it i think it was harder than previous years. there were a few little bits which caught me out but im fairly confident that i well.:D:D


  • #10
    Valin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Valin


    I showed my teacher the paper and she said it was one of the hardest she's seen in years and that some of the questions where really sneaky.

    Area & Volume was easy but then in Co-ord Geometry in part B I had (0,3) for b,c and s. So my triangle was a dot!
    Then trig wasn't to bad and the Triangle, construction stuff wasn't too bad except for c (iv), it just didn't make sense! Had no idea how to do 4 c (i) but part 2 was easy. Then in the trig section they could have just said 4 over 2 or something and made it clear instead of deliberatly trying to confuse use by just saying 4.

    And don't even get me started on counting the golf rounds, I never thought something could be as boring as golf until I did that question! I literally thought I was about to lose my mind!!!!


  • #11
    Reckle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Reckle


    the maths was really hard
    my 3 angles of a triangle theorem came up :) yay
    question 1 was fine,2 no clue,3 was ok,4 ok,5 really difficult and 6 easy


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  • #12
    ayumi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    what did pple get for q 5c the coodrinates of p(ordinary)


  • #13
    tracker-man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tracker-man


    thought the paper was quite difficult and time was scarce too! I wont go into individual questions but they gave a hard maths exam this year.


  • #14
    ch252
    Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭ch252


    I was delighted with it, the 2 theorems I thought would come up did and I did all questions without much difficulty, I was pi**** off that I didn't change mins to hours in the question 5 5(b)(i)
    Time was extremely scarce, I was just finishing as the super intendant said close the booklets! Needed a lot of extra paper too, another half hour would have made a big difference, but I suppose timing is part of the exam too.
    It definitely brought me up from paper one.


  • #15
    Lorthas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Lorthas


    It was a difficult paper, but i enjoyed it, question 5 was hard, but the rest was like other papers. It was above average in difficulty level


  • #16
    tracker-man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tracker-man


    why is there such a time limit though? There testing your maths, not your time keeping or organisational skills! Why can't you have as much time as you like to answer as many questions as you possibly can. I mean, if you miss out on a question or two if you know the method and you just run out of time, it doesn't give a fair impression on the work you've been doing for 3 years does it? Why not give enough time to write everything you know, good plentiful answers and thus, possibly get a higher grade? Would make more sense to me...











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  • #17
    hurler007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭hurler007


    Overall i tout it was a good paper.theorems were good Q1,2,3,6 were fairly easy the other two were fairly difficult.i was a little stuck 4 time unlike paper1.id say i probly got a B.:D


  • #18
    oisin238
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭oisin238


    i hated it i only liked q6 and the theroms


  • #19
    TransititionMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭TransititionMan


    I thought i done alot worse than i had til i looked over the paper.
    Q1- No thougth was needed
    Q2- I was Useless
    Q3- Okay
    Q4- Very easy i thought.
    Q5- I definatly got some marks for it, i liked c.
    Q6- Iceing on the cake as far as my test went, brought me up to a B if i calculated correctly.

    Very hard paper all the same and some of the stuff ijust guessed my way through.


  • #20
    keane-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭keane-xx


    I think i did well, but the paper was really hard. The trigonometery and tangents and stuff were really hard..........! But overall, i think i will get an A or B!!


  • #21
    Cathal93
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭Cathal93


    I really thought the first 2 questions were pretty hard!!!!!!!!!!
    3,4,5 and 6 were really easy!!!!!!!!!! Anyone else agree.....anyone willin to post sum soloutions??????????


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  • #22
    aingel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭aingel


    Well i thought it woz ok loved the theorems yay! but stupid me got it into my head that it was over at 12.30 so i thought i had loads of time!owel.. em just wondering if any one knows what the story is with extra paper. i have big writing so needed 3 extra booklets but when i asked for the third one the superintendant came up and started looking through my work! Is that allowed?? she said the dept are v. fussy about paper r sumthing. I lost about two mins over that which i know doesnt sound very long but when you're told youve 5 mins left when your stupid brain thinks youve half an hour its loads. God im so p***ed off.


  • #23
    ch252
    Closed Accounts Posts: 668 ✭✭✭ch252


    aingel wrote: »
    Well i thought it woz ok loved the theorems yay! but stupid me got it into my head that it was over at 12.30 so i thought i had loads of time!owel.. em just wondering if any one knows what the story is with extra paper. i have big writing so needed 3 extra booklets but when i asked for the third one the superintendant came up and started looking through my work! Is that allowed?? she said the dept are v. fussy about paper r sumthing. I lost about two mins over that which i know doesnt sound very long but when you're told youve 5 mins left when your stupid brain thinks youve half an hour its loads. God im so p***ed off.

    Doubt it? I got 3 booklets too and countless sheets of graph paper and nothing was said so I dunno? we had a sound super intendant though.


  • #24
    stop_the_craze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭stop_the_craze


    aingel wrote: »
    Well i thought it woz ok loved the theorems yay! but stupid me got it into my head that it was over at 12.30 so i thought i had loads of time!owel.. em just wondering if any one knows what the story is with extra paper. i have big writing so needed 3 extra booklets but when i asked for the third one the superintendant came up and started looking through my work! Is that allowed?? she said the dept are v. fussy about paper r sumthing. I lost about two mins over that which i know doesnt sound very long but when you're told youve 5 mins left when your stupid brain thinks youve half an hour its loads. God im so p***ed off.

    Well my geography teacher told us that we can use as much paper as we want and skip lines/ write on one side of the page only and they have to give you as much paper as you want.
    Ragin' though... :(. I'm sure you did ok.


  • #25
    Valin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Valin


    Question 2 (b)

    All the points added to (0,3)!!!! What the hell!


  • #26
    t-mobile1892
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭t-mobile1892


    If you look back over the past maths exams since the new syllabus came in this years is probably the hardest..:mad:...still the theorems nd the construction were handy enough....


  • #27
    tracker-man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tracker-man


    yep me too, used two extra booklets, and 3 pages of graph paper! Not a problem. The blue booklet would hardly close! :) exam time is not the time to be
    environmentally friendly! :D


  • #28
    lolipops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭lolipops


    it was waaaay easier than paper 1 :)
    but i still found some parts difficult,
    Q1 was easy
    Q2 i skipped part C and never went back to it because i ran out of time
    Q3 easy enough, i was happy with the theorem ^_^
    Q4 all i can say is wah? i couldnt do part B
    Q5 easy but i skipped C and i didnt go back to it
    Q6 simple but i had to go over that golf thing about 10 times..
    and i thought watching golf was boring.. ugh and my dad even listens to golf on the radio and i thought that was bad...


  • #29
    TransititionMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭TransititionMan


    Yeh I think most ppl got stuck on 2 i knw i did and i wont even get any marks for asome of the stuff cos i didnt even try cos it would cost me alot of time for minimum points :S

    I actually think i done better in paper 2 than 1 which is a massive shock for me :O

    Still the paper was very hard and im glad when i see ppl get the same answers as i did... eg (0,3) lol all 3 of em were that :P funny looking triangle :P


  • #30
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #31
    Valin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Valin


    Since when does a dot constitute a triangle! :D

    My teacher said that 4 & 5 part (c)'s where just cruel! :confused:
    Like I think who ever made the papers this year just decided, 'Nah, I won't ask them what on the course! I'll just ask them confusing questions that they'll get wrong!'

    My teacher is complaining about Question 2 part (b) and 4 & 5 part c's. Anyone else talk to their teachers?


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