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What did you think of the exams?

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  • #272
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    In the higher Geog paper, it had a river going through Germany, and asked me to name it. I hadn't got a clue, so I had a guess at The Berlin River (creative?)

    Any ideas what it was?


  • #273
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Easy, It was the rhine, It passes out to the sea from Holland and begins in Switzerland


  • #274
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Easy, It was the rhine, It passes out to the sea from Holland and begins in Switzerland

    It was a rock hard question! Get it? ROCK! Just scroll up the thread and you'll see that joke used by me!!


  • #275
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    daisy17 wrote: »
    I didn't do that q but I think you would have had to base it on the map, like it was there because of three reasons, eg
    The sea, for trade
    If it was low land (can't remember) then maybe for agricultural reasons.
    If it was the lowest bridging point .. etc etc.

    I'd say the case studying isn't right as they specifically asked about Wicklow. Sorry :(
    Ahhh those are the exact ones I used! :D And I thought I was completely waffling going on about how it was a lowland area. Good stuff!
    Meller wrote: »
    Said that fish were non-renewable :eek::eek: What was l thinking??
    Fish ARE non-renewable. Aren't they? :confused:


  • #276
    daisy17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭daisy17


    Namlub wrote: »
    Ahhh those are the exact ones I used! :D And I thought I was completely waffling going on about how it was a lowland area. Good stuff!

    Fish ARE non-renewable. Aren't they? :confused:

    Hmm well it says in my geog book that they are renewable - i.e. a source that will never run out if used wisely ..


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  • #277
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Namlub wrote: »
    Ahhh those are the exact ones I used! :D And I thought I was completely waffling going on about how it was a lowland area. Good stuff!


    Fish ARE non-renewable. Aren't they? :confused:
    Em, thats like saying humans are non-renewable....
    Baby fish???


    Come on like, what a blunder :D


  • #278
    Ambrosia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭Ambrosia


    Fish are renewable as far as I know.


  • #279
    shanec1928
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭shanec1928


    geog was easy


  • #280
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Em, thats like saying humans are non-renewable....
    Baby fish???


    Come on like, what a blunder :D
    But they can become extinct!
    Ssssssh!


  • #281
    Frank3142
    Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Frank3142


    Dougal.Maguire wrote: »
    i wrote the one inspired by the picture of the muddy field...did it on oxygen 2009!! thought it was grand its easy to write bout stuff like that!!:cool:

    i was going to do that....buit i wouldnt understand


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  • #282
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    In maths I got 3c part 1 and 2 but not 3. How many marks would you say I'll lose? I did attempt it though


  • #283
    daisy17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭daisy17


    Dub973 wrote: »
    In maths I got 3c part 1 and 2 but not 3. How many marks would you say I'll lose? I did attempt it though
    Looking at 2008 marking scheme for a similar question (but on q4), the last part was worth the same marks as part (i) and (ii), all 5 marks each. An attempt was worth 2 marks, so the max u can lose is probably 5, but you might only lose 3 if you get the attempt marks.


  • #284
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    daisy17 wrote: »
    Looking at 2008 marking scheme for a similar question (but on q4), the last part was worth the same marks as part (i) and (ii), all 5 marks each. An attempt was worth 2 marks, so the max u can lose is probably 5, but you might only lose 3 if you get the attempt marks.


    Thanks for that,thought I would lose like 20 haha. Any ideas for the speed question in question 1. I attempted it again but screwed it up?

    Thanks


  • #285
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    daisy17 wrote: »
    Looking at 2008 marking scheme for a similar question (but on q4), the last part was worth the same marks as part (i) and (ii), all 5 marks each. An attempt was worth 2 marks, so the max u can lose is probably 5, but you might only lose 3 if you get the attempt marks.


    Well any ideas how much I'd lose in maths if I screwed up the speed question on question 1 in maths?


  • #286
    Dancing-Ferret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭Dancing-Ferret


    Dicksboro_man wrote: »
    so is the answer 0.37 and -1.37 correct?

    yes, 0.37 and -1.37 are correct


  • #287
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    Maths question!
    How many marks would you loose for getting the speed question on question 1 wrong. I did attempt it though


  • #288
    Dancing-Ferret
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭Dancing-Ferret


    it depends how wrong you got it


  • #289
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    well I wrote down the time as 90 minutes instea of 1.5 so any ideas?


  • #290
    Rexsplode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭Rexsplode


    :mad: Stupid tense on the Irish letter.
    How may marks will I lose? The special event I wrote in the past tense. I said I made a new friend. I said that the area is too remote and the weather is bad so they both could be after the fact. I said I like speaking irish. U sed a 2008 date. problem is I said I am in the gaeltacht not was. :(


  • #291
    elaine93
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭elaine93


    @Rexsplode: Judging by what other people have said to me, a lot. But I mean is it a Irish test or is it a read the question test.I think if you showed that you did know how to use the past tense they might let you away with it because half the planet seems to have done the same thing.


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  • #292
    daisy17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭daisy17


    Dub973 wrote: »
    Well any ideas how much I'd lose in maths if I screwed up the speed question on question 1 in maths?
    Well question 1 part c is usually worth 15 marks, so it depends - did you get the first part of it right? I think attempts on that question (on distance/speed/time) will only amount to 5 marks. Check past paper marking schemes on www.examinations.ie for similar questions.


  • #293
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    daisy17 wrote: »
    Well question 1 part c is usually worth 15 marks, so it depends - did you get the first part of it right? I think attempts on that question (on distance/speed/time) will only amount to 5 marks. Check past paper marking schemes on www.examinations.ie for similar questions.


    Well I said the formula speed =distance/time only I used the wrong units. I put time in seconds and kilometres in metres. I followed the method but using wrong units and I got the method for part 2 right using my answer from part 1 only in different units. What do you think?


  • #294
    McPooHead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭McPooHead


    what did everyone get for the q about soap in Q1 of Maths Paper 1

    I seem to be the only one who got Brand A .. :S
    I didn't use the part of the table that said how many bars there were because it said the price per GRAM ..
    Is that right?


  • #295
    millington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭millington


    McPooHead wrote: »
    what did everyone get for the q about soap in Q1 of Maths Paper 1

    I seem to be the only one who got Brand A .. :S
    I didn't use the part of the table that said how many bars there were because it said the price per GRAM ..
    Is that right?
    Nope your wrong. If theres 4 bars, 100g each, for €2, thats 400g for €2


  • #296
    iheartboosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭iheartboosh


    i got brand B :S
    lol i was such an idiot and got the pytagoras' therom wrong! I forgot what hypotenuese was :|
    haha ah well..


  • #297
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    Dub973 wrote: »
    Well I said the formula speed =distance/time only I used the wrong units. I put time in seconds and kilometres in metres. I followed the method but using wrong units and I got the method for part 2 right using my answer from part 1 only in different units. What do you think?


    Well anyone any ideas on how much marks I'll lose here?


  • #298
    Eoin MurMur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭Eoin MurMur


    Dub973 wrote: »
    Well anyone any ideas on how much marks I'll lose here?

    I'd say you won't lose many. you'll get 3 marks or 7 marks for attempt anyway


  • #299
    Setheme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Setheme


    Do ya think paper II will be easier than I ?
    What to study, except for theorems and constructions? :pac:


  • #300
    Eoin MurMur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 105 ✭✭Eoin MurMur


    Setheme wrote: »
    Do ya think paper II will be easier than I ?
    What to study, except for theorems and constructions? :pac:
    Yeah it should be easy enough. I'd say trigonometry and co-ordinate geomatry cos they're easy marks once you know the formulas


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  • #301
    Dub973
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Dub973


    Question about the pythagoros therom question!

    I got my answer as .34 or -1.34 and 'apparently' it's .37 or -1.37. I was .03 out so must have been an estimation error. Would I even be penalized for such a small error if it even is an error?


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