Thoughts on Chemistry??

Pheima

Hey!
How did everyone find the hons paper?I thought it wasn't very fair a lot of people in my year were upset after it! Some stuff that wasn't in "Chemistry Live" even came up. hmmm

CosmicLove

Thought the q11c was a bit sly.
Made a couple of silly mistakes; like for q1 colour change I wrote wine red -> blue/black put a line through it then wrote blue/black -> wine red
Praying I passed though!

hmmmm52

Pheima wrote: »

Hey!
How did everyone find the hons paper?I thought it wasn't very fair a lot of people in my year were upset after it! Some stuff that wasn't in "Chemistry Live" even came up. hmmm

what kinda stuff? bits of q.9 i know def arent in the book but other than that i tot it was a fair enough paper.?

Lawliet

The SEC seems to be making a point of putting things up on the papers that aren't in the main text books this year.

starry nights

i think it was ok. didnt get the B1 i wanted but seeing as i took it up and did it in a year with 7 other subjects im fairly happy.

was thrilled to see benzoic acid and ethanal in section B.

What did everyone get for KC in the equilibrium question?

CosmicLove

Oooo I rushed it as an extra question last minute but I fink it was 1.435?

foxpoint1

CosmicLove wrote: »

Oooo I rushed it as an extra question last minute but I fink it was 1.435?

i didnt get that..id say you are right

Making It Bad

Lawliet wrote: »

The SEC seems to be making a point of putting things up on the papers that aren't in the main text books this year.

Hah, this is actually very true. Some very weird things on physics as well which weren't even mentioned in the text book.

starry nights

foxpoint1 wrote: »

i didnt get that..id say you are right

i got 10..... loadsa people are giving different answers to me....

chaoticmess

starry nights wrote: »

i got 10..... loadsa people are giving different answers to me....

I got 2.something.... I think!

sarahisdeadly

chaoticmess wrote: »

I got 2.something.... I think!

Me too! Something with a load o decimal points...

leavingcert 2010

Making It Bad wrote: »

Hah, this is actually very true. Some very weird things on physics as well which weren't even mentioned in the text book.

i think the reason this years leaving cert as a whole was like that including the physics paper was because of, all these ******s in the news that keep saying leaving cert is a bad exam and it all rote learning

so this year they tried to make the ppl who rote learned to struggle

which happened to me, i wouldnt say i rote learned cause if you know your stuff and know how to use it(which isnt easy to do) people make the word rote learning like you learn it but dont know what it means

personally i didnt do good this year, i was hoping for A1s, i dont think i got any

FordieMUFC

Kc was 0.0225 or something. I got that as did my friend plus a genius in my year who always gets the right answer in every question so I think it's right
hopefully

FordieMUFC

starry nights wrote: »

i think it was ok. didnt get the B1 i wanted but seeing as i took it up and did it in a year with 7 other subjects im fairly happy.

was thrilled to see benzoic acid and ethanal in section B.

What did everyone get for KC in the equilibrium question?

em.. where was the ethanal in section B?

uncle-mofo

Lawliet wrote: »

The SEC seems to be making a point of putting things up on the papers that aren't in the main text books this year.

What the jesus are they trying to accomplish with that? What was the oxidation/reduction of Na2SO4 about?

hmmmm52

FordieMUFC wrote: »

Kc was 0.0225 or something. I got that as did my friend plus a genius in my year who always gets the right answer in every question so I think it's right
hopefully

i got 0.0025 . . . .:) close enuf considering i could never figure the ratios out !

IronGirl92

hmmmm52 wrote: »

i got 0.0025 . . . .:) close enuf considering i could never figure the ratios out !

Hmm. Now I can't remember which one I got. Ehh. It had 0's and 2's anyway! :rolleyes:

FordieMUFC

uncle-mofo wrote: »

What the jesus are they trying to accomplish with that? What was the oxidation/reduction of Na2SO4 about?

Q10 (c)?
(i) Just apply the oxidation numbers thingy to it. You should get +6 and +3
(ii) Orange ----> Green
(iii) Fehling's solution (or else silver mirror/acidified KmNO4.)
(iv) I said ethanoic acid for this, was caught between that ethanal? anyone know the right answer? I have a feeling that both of them are right.

ciaradx

FordieMUFC wrote: »

Q10 (c)?
(i) Just apply the oxidation numbers thingy to it. You should get +6 and +3
(ii) Orange ----> Green
(iii) Fehling's solution (or else silver mirror/acidified KmNO4.)
(iv) I said ethanoic acid for this, was caught between that ethanal? anyone know the right answer? I have a feeling that both of them are right.

The answer was ethanoic acid, ethanal was in the question if you read it again so you couldn't give that as an answer because they asked for another organic compound.

uncle-mofo

FordieMUFC wrote: »

Q10 (c)?
(i) Just apply the oxidation numbers thingy to it. You should get +6 and +3
(ii) Orange ----> Green
(iii) Fehling's solution (or else silver mirror/acidified KmNO4.)
(iv) I said ethanoic acid for this, was caught between that ethanal? anyone know the right answer? I have a feeling that both of them are right.

No there was a separate question, might have been 11? It was the electrolysis of Na2SO4 I think.

theowen

uncle-mofo wrote: »

No there was a separate question, might have been 11? It was the electrolysis of Na2SO4 I think.

Noope that was part of the oxdaton queston.

FordieMUFC

ciaradx wrote: »

The answer was ethanoic acid, ethanal was in the question if you read it again so you couldn't give that as an answer because they asked for another organic compound.

phew, I know it was a small question but it's the small little bits that matter at the end of the day!
Would be very happy with a B1 considering I only started studying properly 'til after the pre which I got 60% is. I really let other subjects catch up with me. Was always getting A1's in 5th year, but hey, considering that was a very tough test I hope I did well.