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College and Maths!

  • 30-06-2010 6:55pm
    #1
    aine92
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭


    So guys just finished the LC and today I'm attempting to sort out my CAO.

    After med and all that jazz I have medicinal chemistry and I'm just wondering, after me being strong at ordinary level maths and fine but not excellent at higher level LC maths, how would I fare in my first year? After first year I can drop it but I'd hate to think I'd struggle through it?

    Can anyone help?


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  • #2
    Improbable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    I don't know about the other colleges but in UCD, the maths difficulty was just fine. Just basic matrices and vectors. Didn't struggle with it at all.


  • #3
    pathway33
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    http://www.tcd.ie/Local/Exam_Papers/2009/XM/XMA1S111.pdf


  • #4
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Longest LC on earth...what were you doing?


  • #5
    aine92
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭aine92


    Longest LC? Was that for me?

    Thanks pathway33, just had a look and theres things I definately recognize anyway!


  • #6
    Improbable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Improbable


    http://www.ucd.ie/exams/pastpapers/2008/200851288.pdf
    http://www.ucd.ie/exams/pastpapers/2008/200851283.pdf


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  • #7
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    aine92 wrote: »
    Longest LC? Was that for me?

    Thanks pathway33, just had a look and theres things I definately recognize anyway!

    Yeah! Didn't realize the LC was still going on, what was on today?


  • #8
    Fad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    Maths in UCD science is fine, but you'll need to keep up the work, cramming it isn't really an option :(

    A lesson I learned the hard and expensive way >_<


  • #9
    just-joe
    Registered Users Posts: 679 ✭✭✭just-joe


    Just finished maths in TCD, and while that sort o maths was crazy and ridiculous, the maths in med chem should be fine. Fine but not excellent at LC maths would set ya up grand. Its more the amount of work ya put in once ya get there really.

    I don't know who ya would be in with (most probably other 1st year science, if so their maths is ok afaik), probably a big class, but the tutorials would be smaller, and if you go to these, ask questions about stuff you don't understand, then you'll have no problem.

    However this is the real world so you'll probably end up having way too much fun in college to go to crappy maths tutorials, will cram a load at the end, and scrape through, everything works out well in the end.


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