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Exam questions that never made it on the paper

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    Discuss the roles played by women in Macbeth and contrast the characters of Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff (remember to regurgitate the three quotes that you bothered to memorise regardless of if they are relevant to this question)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Shakespeare is a grossly overrated writer who plagiarised much of his work from Arabic sources. Is there any evidence to justify this statement?

    Clue: The answer is no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Analyse the statement that Joan Burton is actually a baby giraffe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Phil Hogan is minister for the environment.

    Explain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Art paper II:

    Draw a portrait of the prophet Muhammed.


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If a train takes two hours, fifteen minutes and 32 seconds to complete a journey of 250km, calculate its speed in furlongs per fortnight!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    History: Outline four ways in which Adolf Hitler has been undeservedly demonized by historians.

    English Paper I: Choose an essay title from the list below and write it.
    - 1: My first sexual experience, in graphic detail.

    CSPE: Outline two negative consequences of further EU integration.

    Business Studies: Describe in as much detail as possible how best to set up a tax evasion scheme in the Cayman Islands.

    Chemistry: Describe how one might distill drinkable vodka at home.

    Biology: Boobs. Discuss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Analyse the statement that Joan Burton is actually a baby giraffe.

    O_O
    What has been seen, can never be unseen. :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    David Icke believes that Queen Elizabeth II is of a "reptilian nature". Is he right? Justify your answer by reference to three sharp body parts of Queen Elizabeth II.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,233 ✭✭✭robman60


    Doing the LC this year, this is pretty much what the comparative involves.

    Contrast a mentally deficient nobody named Josie with a 12th century Scottish king named Macbeth.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭mrkiscool2


    In Game of Thrones, Hodor experiences a wide range of emotional and psychological problems. Discuss (use relevant quotes from the show to back-up your points)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    "All PE teachers are pedophiles"

    Discuss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,799 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Is is is? Or isn't it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    wazky wrote: »
    Standard maths equation,

    John has 2 apples and Mary has 4 oranges, what colour are my socks?


    I think you've confused maths equations and cryptic crossword clues


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Phil Hogan is minister for the environment.

    Explain.


    He's a godlike genius compared to martin cullen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    He's a godlike genius compared to martin cullen

    I give you a 'D' grade for effort. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Brian Lenihan's Leaving Cert economics paper probably didn't feature:

    Outline the reasons why nationalising the debts of ineffectively regulated private financial institutions may be a bad idea.

    Is that the exam his son was caught cheating in?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    wazky wrote: »
    Standard maths equation,

    John has 2 apples and Mary has 4 oranges, what colour are my socks?

    Foundation maths
    John and Mary had 5 apples and 3 bananas. How many letters is there in John's name

    (a) Yellow
    (b) 4
    (c) All of the above

    Ordinary maths
    Find the equation of the line crossing through the points (7,3) and (12,10)

    Higher maths
    Prove that for any compact simple gauge group G, a non-trivial quantum Yang–Mills theory exists on R and has a mass gap Δ > 0. Existence includes establishing axiomatic properties at least as strong as those cited in Streater & Wightman (1964), Osterwalder & Schrader (1973) and Osterwalder & Schrader (1975).


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Prove x^n + y^n does not equal z^n, where n is any positive integer greater than 2.

    [latex]3,987^{12} + 4,365^{12} = 4,472^{12}[/latex]

    Nimrod: 1
    Fermat: 0



    I do feel obliged to say that it doesn't actually work and it's off by around 0.000000007.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,623 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    [latex]3,987^{12} + 4,365^{12} = 4,472^{12}[/latex]

    Nimrod: 1
    Fermat: 0

    How many decimal places are you rounding to there? :p


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    How many decimal places are you rounding to there? :p

    Ssshhhh :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Is it morally right to use the excuse "im on my way to leinster house, if stopped by the Garda for any reason?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭little sis...


    french : write an essay describing how you attempted the neknominations.

    economics: discuss why justin bieber concert tickets unfortunately do not obey the law of demand.

    :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    What will the effect be when Stephen Irelands nan does pass away on the media?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    Discuss the roles played by women in Macbeth and contrast the characters of Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff (remember to regurgitate the three quotes that you bothered to memorise regardless of if they are relevant to this question)

    With a special emphasis on Lady MacDuff and her brother Father Cyril McDuff and it's impact on Craggy Island


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    Find x. When you find it, find the rest of the alphabet in numerical order.

    Find X, and tell him his mammy wants him home for tea


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