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Junior Cert 2011: Tech Graph

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  • #62
    BR4D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭BR4D


    Solid_Shepard wrote: »
    I must say I was expecting something really difficult. I had always heard that Technical Graphics was "close to impossible" and although I've always been quite good at it I expected it to be very challenging. At first i thought that would be true as I skipped one of the short questions and struggled with two of them but I did fourteen out of the fifteen so hopefully I will get all the marks in that. I anxiously opened section B and I was pleasantly surprised that question 1, 2 and 5, I felt, were extremely easy. I intended to do Q6 but I was taken back by it at first. Thankfully though it was much easier than I thought. Out of all the long questions the only bit I struggled with was the curve RS which was a portion of ABC but I didn't even find that too hard. So to summarise I did 1, 2, 5 and 6, I thought the only difficult bit on the long questions was the portion of the parabola ABC in Q6 and overall the exam was way easier than I expected.

    So is anybody else doing DCG next year? Hopefully I am (i asked to do the class but currently it's full and the secretary is checking if I could still do it or if somebody is going to change out of it) and I'm looking forward to it. And if anybody currently doing it is reading (and they liked TG) what do you think of it compared to Technical Graphics?

    Can I ask, why do people always skip Q3 (B) in the log questions, its easy you just draw the 3d after you scale the measurements, which takes 2lines. Look it up on the SEC marking scheme.


  • #63
    Solid_Shepard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Solid_Shepard


    @BR4D, Obviously I cannot speak for everybody but the reason I don't use the Isometric Scale method when I was doing question 3 in class is that we actually never did it in much detail. My teacher felt that the first method (I cannot remember the name, I apologise) would be much easier to understand and as a result we only did the Isometric Scale method twice. Although it is probably faster, I agree with my teacher that the reason it works isn't as clear as the first method and as a result I find the first method easier to do.


  • #64
    BR4D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭BR4D


    Solid_Shepard wrote: »
    @BR4D, Obviously I cannot speak for everybody but the reason I don't use the Isometric Scale method when I was doing question 3 in class is that we actually never did it in much detail. My teacher felt that the first method (I cannot remember the name, I apologise) would be much easier to understand and as a result we only did the Isometric Scale method twice. Although it is probably faster, I agree with my teacher that the reason it works isn't as clear as the first method and as a result I find the first method easier to do.

    i understand but teachers should do it in detail because it's very easy to get marks in, you get 4 marks for drawing a 45 and 30 line


  • #65
    Eoin_Sheehy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭Eoin_Sheehy


    BR4D wrote: »
    Can I ask, why do people always skip Q3 (B) in the log questions, its easy you just draw the 3d after you scale the measurements, which takes 2lines. Look it up on the SEC marking scheme.


    Our teachers reasoning is that if we were to do the scale Isometric scale moving a good 20 measurements would mean that there would be a lot of space for the compass to move about in the hole it's created, he said Isometric projection would be more accurate and because of that he did barely anything on Isometric scale and would murder us if we ever handed up a sheet done by that.


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