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how did everyone get on in maths 2??

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  • #32
    stop_the_craze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭stop_the_craze


    I did the ordinary level paper. I think I got 100% in Paper 1 and 2 so a deffo A for me :cool:.

    Hope you guys did good too!


  • #33
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #34
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    Oh my god it was brutal! Most unfair,difficult exam I've ever seen in my life,especially trig,which I'm normally good at. Really makes me wish I'd done the JC last year.


  • #35
    Lorthas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Lorthas


    If anyone wants to know the solution for a specific question (except Q5 part (a) and (c) ) Just ask and i might be able to help


  • #36
    sheeez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭sheeez


    i spent way too much time on 2 gettin it right and the area and volume question i usually fine fine but then i was just screwed!!:confused:
    hopefully the markin scheme wil b generous!!:D


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  • #37
    tracker-man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tracker-man


    sheeez wrote: »
    hopefully the markin scheme wil b generous!!:D
    I second that! My teacher told me the head examiners sit down and discuss the paper and how it was answered. If for example question 4 was answered badly by loads of students then they allow for that in the marking scheme.


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  • #38
    TransititionMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭TransititionMan


    Yeh :P thank god for attempt marks anyway :P :P :P
    Added mine up looking over the test again and i got around 72%
    delighted :P


  • #39
    aine92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭aine92


    i nearly burst with hapiness when i saw the theorems but question 5 was impossible, id say i got a max of about 20/50 in it :(:(


    Im TERRIFIED to go to my teacher, he wont talk to you unless you get a B or over. I daresay ill never talk 2 him again haha...!!


  • #40
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #41
    lolipops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭lolipops


    could anyone tell me how much marks would i lose if i didnt do 2(c) 4(c) and 5(c)??
    i havn't a clue about the marking scheme so if you would tell me that would be great :)


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  • #42
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #43
    oponodon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭oponodon


    Hey, i was just wondering, about part (iv) of b in Question 2 (Find the area of the triangle cde) what was the simplest way of doing that? I had to use the distance equation 3 times, and found each of the areas of the small triangles, and added them. I used up a whole page, and lost loadza time, and i had to skip part c and come back to it later. Was there a simpler way of doing that part?


  • #44
    lolipops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭lolipops


    oponodon wrote: »
    Hey, i was just wondering, about part (iv) of b in Question 2 (Find the area of the triangle cde) what was the simplest way of doing that? I had to use the distance equation 3 times, and found each of the areas of the small triangles, and added them. I used up a whole page, and lost loadza time, and i had to skip part c and come back to it later. Was there a simpler way of doing that part?

    not too sure but i used 1/2 a b SinC
    its probably wrong though, but thats what i always do to get the area of a triangle.
    oh and what was your graph like?
    mine was so weird the lines intersected at their tips so it formed a perfect triangle, which never happened before so im guessing its wrong.


  • #45
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #46
    oponodon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭oponodon


    Yeah i did that, but the only way i could get the area was use 1/2absinC, but i only had the 2 90 degree angles, so i had to find 2 sides of each.... took ages.


  • #47
    aine92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭aine92


    lolipops wrote: »
    not too sure but i used 1/2 a b SinC
    its probably wrong though, but thats what i always do to get the area of a triangle.
    oh and what was your graph like?
    mine was so weird the lines intersected at their tips so it formed a perfect triangle, which never happened before so im guessing its wrong.



    sh!t i used half the base X perpendicular height :eek::eek:


  • #48
    UpYeBoyo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭UpYeBoyo


    That paper made me want to die.Four and five actually brought tears to my eyes! Thank heavens I'm doing pass for the leaving cert! i hope I scraped a c! I really really hope so! If I didnt Im going to jump in ahole because i have been doing grinds for a year, I'm just not good at maths!


  • #49
    lolipops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭lolipops


    UpYeBoyo wrote: »
    That paper made me want to die.Four and five actually brought tears to my eyes! Thank heavens I'm doing pass for the leaving cert! i hope I scraped a c! I really really hope so! If I didnt Im going to jump in ahole because i have been doing grinds for a year, I'm just not good at maths!

    me too :(
    i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
    the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!

    yeah im hoping for a C too..

    if i dont get a C il move to yemen and change my name to hiltashnuven..
    hiltashnuven the goat farmer..


  • #50
    UpYeBoyo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭UpYeBoyo


    lolipops wrote: »
    me too :(
    i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
    the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!

    yeah im hoping for a C too..

    if i dont get a C il move to yemen and change my name to hiltashnuven..
    hiltashnuven the goat farmer..


    Hahaha! Yeah, same here! Are you bad at maths anyway? I'm bad at maths anyway, even though I did a load of grinds and study.Maths just aren't my thing... I hope you get your C! I'm praying to God to get mine!


  • #51
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    lolipops wrote: »
    me too :(
    i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
    the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!
    Of course it looks impossible, you haven't spent 2 years learning how to do it. : p It's really not that bad.


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  • #52
    Oman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Oman


    wow i found the maths in general very easy but ive always found maths easy. i got 93% the mocks so hopefully an A for the junior cert. you just gotta keep a clear head when your doing it


  • #53
    TransititionMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭TransititionMan


    Dear God what kind of monster are you!!!
    I hope to do Honours Maths for the LC but i also hope to be better at maths by then :P


  • #54
    somewhatxdazed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭somewhatxdazed


    Oman wrote: »
    wow i found the maths in general very easy but ive always found maths easy. i got 93% the mocks so hopefully an A for the junior cert. you just gotta keep a clear head when your doing it

    yeah, i thought it was WELL easy. got either the highest or the second highest in my year in the mocks, so yeah i'm pretty confident. :D

    paper one was stupidly easy, came out of the exam pretty annoyed, wanted something even the TEENSIEST bit challenging. in comparison to previous years, id say it was one of the easiest ones set.

    paper two wasn't THAT easy, but the theorems were simple, and the rest of the exam wasn't too bad at all. wasn't as easy as paper one, but then paper two never is.

    i'm saying all thios, but then maths has always been my "thing", i kinda sorta LOVE it. wish i was as good in other subjects as i am in maths :D


  • #55
    TransititionMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭TransititionMan


    somewhatxdazed wrote: »
    yeah, i thought it was WELL easy. got either the highest or the second highest in my year in the mocks, so yeah i'm pretty confident. :D

    paper one was stupidly easy, came out of the exam pretty annoyed, wanted something even the TEENSIEST bit challenging. in comparison to previous years, id say it was one of the easiest ones set.

    paper two wasn't THAT easy, but the theorems were simple, and the rest of the exam wasn't too bad at all. wasn't as easy as paper one, but then paper two never is.

    i'm saying all thios, but then maths has always been my "thing", i kinda sorta LOVE it. wish i was as good in other subjects as i am in maths :D


    I found the way you put down the papers as easy and challenging comletely the opposite. I am good enough atmaths ad most things just come to me like but i found paper 1 hard enough, and paper 2 easy enough. Think im gunna get a C anyways, im not brilliant at all of maths, just the General Knowledge side of it.


  • #56
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    lolipops wrote: »
    me too :(
    i took a look at the leaving cert higher level paper and i nearly had a heart attack and a seizure... and another heart attack.
    the 2008 one is up now and it looks impossible!

    yeah im hoping for a C too..

    if i dont get a C il move to yemen and change my name to hiltashnuven..
    hiltashnuven the goat farmer..


    It is impossible :(


    Don't listen to Purplefistmixer, she's made of maths!


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