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Ordinary level MATHS , Aftermath.

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  • 08-06-2009 12:18pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭


    Well guys , what did ye think of the maths paper 2?

    i thought it was quite fare tbh especcialy the statistics question and linear programming but question 2 (the line) part b was damn hard i could not get it to work out.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭xFROSTY Gx


    Feel good after doing that exam. Very happy with the way all my questions went. I was kind of in a rush to do a qustion and a half in the last 15mins though:o haha


  • Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭Bongomc


    the last parts of a couple of Qs were hard but the paper was good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭Adriatic


    I couldn't do Q2 part b at all and I messed up linear prgrommaing part b because I panicked and then I realised how to do it afterwards. AHHH!

    Otherwise I absolutely flew through statistics, probability and trigonometry, they weren't so bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Twilighter


    I found Q.2&3 quite difficult, took me ages like!
    Q10 on the options was unusual to what normally is up aswell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 Nimmy


    I thought it was kinda hard compared with Paper 1. But I think I just didn't put as much time into studying paper 2! oops!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭mikeglee


    I'd be very grateful if someone put up the solution to OL maths Question B please


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭Dante


    I thought it was the hardest paper two in the past 5/6 years. Paper one was incredibly easy though so it kinda balances out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Walsh


    I made a complete balls of it anyway :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭Gi joe!


    there goes commerce, def didn't get a B3 after my shoddy effort:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Homicidal_jesus


    I thought that was a nice paper 1,5,7 were very simple and last parts of 2 and 3 were a bit tricky but got them in the end

    q11 was really easy!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Beau x1


    Realistically it was grand, I just didn't put enough attention to it. Q 2) B) was anoying because I knew how to do everything on it except for i) which meant I couldn't continue.

    Probability was piss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 squirrel!


    man i raped the probability question! it rocks!
    apart from that it was all good i tink!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭p1akuw47h5r3it


    Line and circle q where hard... Didn't get the last part of Area and Volume either but pretty happy overall


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    whats the answer to the last part on q 11? its show the region where the profit is at most 7200?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Claypigeon


    Happy with that paper, learned all formulas this morning and wrote them all down in my first page of the answer-book. Wrote them out each time they were needed, 3 marks. Subbed in variables, 4 marks. Solving a Part C with the knowledge I did it perfectly, as someone who's been up to this point innumerate, priceless. And 3 marks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Futurism


    Definitely got most of it right. A few questions were a bit tricky so they'll probably bring my grade down a bit.

    Wasn't sure what to do for some of the trig questions but I think I might have gotten them right anyway.

    As said already, probability was great this year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭ThatWouldBeNice


    Was an okay paper, a few tricky bits, and it took me three tries to get the cumulative freq. graph, but apart from that it was fine :) Never have to use the word 'quadratic equation' again, feels nice ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    Good enough paper but it had a few tricky parts alright, Q2(b) in particular.


  • Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭phic


    last part of Q.1 was a bit tricky, but I think I got it in the end!
    Just completely ignored part b of two, had no idea what that was all about!
    did 6 questions so it should be grand!

    What does that thing about bearing mean? was the angle where the arrow was pointing 40degrees or 130?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭ooPabsoo


    questin 2 B was hard...i got it out somehow though:D the other 2 points were something like (0,4)(0,-4) i just subbed in the (3,0) into the distance formula and seeing as X2 had to be 0,was left with the problem of finding Y2,seeing as 3 squared is 9.....it had to be 4 or -4 as the length was 5...the square root had to add up to 25 and whoooop it did


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  • Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭GVNDNN


    Was an okay paper

    Except the end part of 1,
    How do you do that?

    Em and part B of question 2

    Linear programming, propability and statistics were grand, area and volume ok, and question 3 had soem hard bits

    Just so happy maths is done :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Way harder than Paper1.

    They lured us into a false sense of security like the witches :pac:

    I think I got an A in paper1 so that should bring me up.

    Can somebody post their Probability answers so I can check them please. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭Lucet


    I said buh bye to commerce in UCD. I did fine in Q1 (I think I got every question right), probabilities, statistics (because I'm in love with them)... But Q2 and Q3 were aweful. I was in the rush with trigonometry, I did part a and started part b, bet left it out. Q11 was also quite freaky, I had 15 mins left, tried to do it for 5 mins and then started Q10, which, of course, I didn't finish. Now I blame myself because I didn't start Q10 instead of that horrible Q11 >.<


  • Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭english4490


    went pretty well thank god.. i thought it was much easier than paper 1...!:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28 xprincessashx


    2 and 3 were freakin hard!! and im an ex-honours student hopin for an a...HA unlikely...not gonna happen now, that paper really annoyed me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Probability Answers: I got: These coud be wrong but they could also be right: Please let me know! I think i did fine on Parts A and B but here my C answers -

    (C)
    (i) 120
    (ii) 72
    (iii) 36
    (iv) 12

    Anyone? I'm crap at it but I rushed through it (about 5 mins) and managed to get answers!


  • Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭sarah+1


    Do people just come on here to boast about how "piss" they thought the paper was? I came on here looking for something to console me after that horrendous paper, but got nothing of the sort.

    I'm having a horrible day. 2 horrifc exams, followed by eating a raw chicken breast. Food poisoning to follow most likely. FML.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    sarah+1 wrote: »
    Do people just come on here to boast about how "piss" they thought the paper was? I came on here looking for something to console me after that horrendous paper, but got nothing of the sort.

    I'm having a horrible day. 2 horrifc exams, followed by eating a raw chicken breast. Food poisoning to follow most likely. FML.

    there there *hugs*

    I didn't like it either. I'm so stupid. I didn't see the second inquality x + y < 13

    >.<


  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭GallowsGhost


    I thought it was the hardest paper two in the past 5/6 years. Paper one was incredibly easy though so it kinda balances out!
    Yeah they definitely weren't given away too many easy marks on that one.

    I think I did okay-ish (I hope), but a couple of the last parts threw me. Especially the end of linear programming, I've never come across that sort of question before.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭ironictoaster


    What did everyone get for Simpson's Rule?


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