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The headcount of failure, (honours maths)

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    #32
    Bluefox21
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭Bluefox21


    passed b2


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    #33
    The guy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The guy


    Passed - b1


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    #34
    carlowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭carlowboy


    A2


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    #35
    whatshername!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭whatshername!!


    paseed C2 (Up from a fail of 35% in the mocks)


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    #36
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    passed, B2 (good paper 2,bad paper 1)


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    #37
    Gangsta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Gangsta


    My maths teacher told me that when all the papers were corrected last year the failure rate was around 49%!! The results were then massaged. That's unbelievable, 49%!

    Pass.A1


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    #38
    hoolio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭hoolio


    Gangsta wrote:
    My maths teacher told me that when all the papers were corrected last year the failure rate was around 49%!! The results were then massaged. That's unbelievable, 49%!

    Your teacher is wrong.


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    #39
    Gangsta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Gangsta


    hoolio wrote:
    Your teacher is wrong.
    Hmm yes she only corrects the paper and is a teacher at GMIT.


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    #40
    hoolio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭hoolio


    Many many people correct papers. All of whom are teachers somewhere. Whats your point?

    It's not personal. Just....wrong.


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    #41
    Gangsta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Gangsta


    hoolio wrote:
    Many many people correct papers. All of whom are teachers somewhere. Whats your point?

    It's not personal. Just....wrong.
    sure, so what's your source?


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    #42
    hoolio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭hoolio


    Erm, a marking scheme setter/advising examiner. But to be honest i dont really want to play "my sources mickey is bigger then your sources mickey" :p Thats not why im saying anything.

    Last year as far as a remember people did too well if anything. Also it's virtually impossible to "massage" a 49% fair rate down to what it ends at every year. Especially without there being absolute war in the maths examiners world.

    All they do/can do is look at the paper and see what questions seperate the tiers of marks. Say if they want to lower the number of B's, they look at the people who just scraped over 70% and the people who were on a more stable B3, then find the questions that seperate those people to be remarked.

    But forget even that. Come on - 49% Does that no strike you as insane no matter who says it. Half of all the people doing honour maths FAILING? It just doesnt happen.

    Tbh honours maths has such a rep as a monster that it scares people away from it.


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    #43
    derryo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭derryo


    Passed (B3)


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    #44
    jackjack555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭jackjack555


    Pass...a1


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    #45
    Citizen_Erased
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Citizen_Erased


    Pass ... a2 ... up from a d2 in the mocks


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    #46
    Turnip2000
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭Turnip2000


    Passed....C2 like weathercheck up from a 25% in mocks!


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    #47
    StephenC_IRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭StephenC_IRL


    ok either theres liers or everyone on boards cheated, no way is there nobody else failing maths


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    #48
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Most people who do Honours don't fail.
    Ordinary Maths on the other hand.....


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    #49
    Donald-Duck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Donald-Duck


    Naikon wrote:
    Most people who do Honours don't fail.
    Ordinary Maths on the other hand.....
    Exactly, its about 1 in 26 or 27 people that fail it since it was something like 3.7% of people who fail it.


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    #50
    analyse this
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭analyse this


    B1....so happy! I thought paper 2 would bring me down!


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    #51
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Donald-Duck wrote:
    Exactly, its about 1 in 26 or 27 people that fail it since it was something like 3.7% of people who fail it.

    Also, people in danger of failing would have dropped to Ordinary level long before June 2007.
    Sorry, but you should not have picked the pink paper in the first place.


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