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Results show high failure rates in maths and science [irish times]

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    #2
    Sarunas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭Sarunas


    these are the subjects you havew to acctualy to some work....no wonder....

    maths is some people is bad, dont know why (im hoping for a1 in pass, but i think i blew it away with crappy p2. i wa on ~90% on paper 1).

    hope "hammer-blow" doesnt happen to me in a few hours........................................ (sorry my hands are shaking)


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    PrecariousNuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭PrecariousNuts


    I did all the sciences and both math subjects... lets hope this isn't a sign.


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    claire h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    PrecariousNuts wrote:
    I did all the sciences and both math subjects... lets hope this isn't a sign.

    Yeah, but if you look at the article, the high failure rates seem to be at ordinary level rather than higher level. In fact, isn't 4% failure rate for maths at higher level pretty low? It sounds it...


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    gobby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭gobby


    a further 5,800 took foundation-level maths
    Wow... Didnt realise that that many people took foundation. What a waste. It gets you nothing.


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    nesthead
    Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭nesthead


    seems like that new biology course was a factor in it. 11% fails for pass biology!? so many people in my exam hall dropped down to pass.... poor bastids...


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    Sarunas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭Sarunas


    Yeah it was sad to see one of my best mates fail pass maths(F), pass biology(E ?) and i think it was irish.

    On the other hand, i got my other mate a pass in maths (i think it was a C3). I was on the phone with him for few hours before the exam....


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    The minister was on t'wireless this morning saying that as far as he knew it was no better or worse than previous years and that this was just a headline for the papers at a time when there's not much real news.
    But then he is a politician.


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    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    I roffled at my Biology result. I did the old course and tbh i did feck all this year, which i regretted a bit by exam time, but i still ended up getting a B3.


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    Healio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Healio


    Well i challenge any of these critics to sit the exams, then well see the real reaction!!


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