Home Ec

Aoifums

So how did it go for everyone else?

Don't want to think about it anymore I'm just going to focus on everything else.

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I can't decide! It was kind of hard.

Aoifums

I know. Milk in question 1! Please tell me I was the only one who wasn't freaked out by this

Vodkat

Short questions: Were easy at the start but after Q.8 i was waffling!

Q.1 was lovely, (A) was a consumer trend graph, I just talked mainly about versatility, availability, when and how they are consumed and range of products and how they are infuenced by consumer needs eg. Low fat milk for low fat diets. I did dehydration- roller drying for milk.

Q.2 diabetes, was nice but I had to bluff on the artifical sweeteners part

Q.3 Influences of consumers choices, Availability, Cost, Personal preference etc.
Think part (B) was the profile of an processed food, I did Cheese

Elective
Education and work

Overall im very happy, Hoping for minimum of a b2!! :D

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I was delighted with the milk! Can't believe they only asked fecking Vit. A though! Ughhh

eveyn

ok so before i went into the exam i was looking over protein, it said there was two TYPES ..LBV and HBV. so when i read the short question it said ''name the type of protein present in these foods''
so at first i wrote down what proteins were in them foods, then it hit me that maybe they meant where they LBV or HBV. im really confused what did yous write

Vodkat

eveyn wrote: »

ok so before i went into the exam i was looking over protein, it said there was two TYPES ..LBV and HBV. so when i read the short question it said ''name the type of protein present in these foods''
so at first i wrote down what proteins were in them foods, then it hit me that maybe they meant where they LBV or HBV. im really confused what did yous write

For eggs it was albumin, Fish would have been either actin or myosin and wheat would have been gluten.

eveyn

urgggg i had that written down then scribbled it out because it asked for type ...im freaked now

Vodkat

eveyn wrote: »

urgggg i had that written down then scribbled it out because it asked for type ...im freaked now

Thats unfortunate, im sure one of the other short q's you answered can make up for it. Did you do all twelve?

LittleMissLost

Vodkat wrote: »

For eggs it was albumin, Fish would have been either actin or myosin and wheat would have been gluten.

yay

My question 1 wasn't great though. I couldn't think of the properties of protien! I'm SO stupid.. Thought of them the second I sealed the damn paper.

And artificial sweeteners? Complete BLUFF

Social studies I Bullsh****d and same with social elective..

Hopefully I'll get a B1?

Or maybe not.. I'm SO disheartened after English

eveyn

Vodkat wrote: »

Thats unfortunate, im sure one of the other short q's you answered can make up for it. Did you do all twelve?

yeah i done all 12 but still thats an easy 6 marks...ah well no point of worrying about it now haha

Sony0050

Say if you wrote about yoghurt as a food that has undergone extensive processing do you think it bwould be ok?

LittleMissLost

Sony0050 wrote: »

Say if you wrote about yoghurt as a food that has undergone extensive processing do you think it bwould be ok?

Umm I think it should have been flour.. You might get away with it though?

Sony0050

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Umm I think it should have been flour.. You might get away with it though?

But they never ststed a specific food?

Vodkat

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Umm I think it should have been flour.. You might get away with it though?

I did cheese. There are not many processes of specific foods covered in the book. Just five I think, those being cheese, yogurt, jam, wheat, milk. If they wanted wheat they should have specified, I did cheese as I thought the labeling and packaging were simple.

eveyn

Vodkat wrote: »

I did cheese. There are not many processes of specific foods covered in the book. Just five I think, those being cheese, yogurt, jam, wheat, milk. If they wanted wheat they should have specified, I did cheese as I thought the labeling and packaging were simple.

what did you say for the labeling and packaging part, i done cheese also

Vodkat

eveyn wrote: »

what did you say for the labeling and packaging part, i done cheese also

Packaging:
Once its cooled.
Flexible films
waxed paper


Labelling:
Net quantity
country of origin
list of ingredients in descending order

LittleMissLost

Q1, couldnt think of the properties of protein at all...
I did Q 2 and BLUFFED sweeteners
Q5 and bluffed social & elective.. A2?

Wonderstruck

I did cheese too! Ha, I could only think of 9 steps, I was so certain there was 10, maybe I just put two in one point.

Th sweetener question was like 'what?'. I know what a bulk sweetener was and what the other one was, but I didn't know it's name. Ah, ah, ah!

Saw the Vitamin A question but could not remember if it was insoluble or soluble - think I said it was not destroyed by heat (well it survives pasteurisation?) and then I bluffed something on UV rays or something. :pac:

Social question was lovely, but I did run out of time and thankfully was able to go back at the end.

I could swear the box within a box, last short question came up in my junior cert (at the time I was just.. what? what is that?). I think it's double insulation. Well I put that down.

Oh well, it seems everyone was stuck on the same questions, I thought everyone else knew everything I didn't know!

Miao

What did any of you think of today's Hons Home Economics papers? I heard that it was awful - especially the two 50 mark questions! Really hard! Why is this subject so broad? Impossible to get through all the course! Wouldn't advise anyone to do it for the LC!

Vodkat

Miao wrote: »

What did any of you think of today's Hons Home Economics papers? I heard that it was awful - especially the two 50 mark questions! Really hard! Why is this subject so broad? Impossible to get through all the course! Wouldn't advise anyone to do it for the LC!

I have to say I was pleased with the paper, although I would have loved if the Q1 (A) part was a nutritive chart and evaluate the food. But the one that came up wasnt that bad, I dont know exactly what they were expecting our answers to contain so just for Q1 (a) my answer was 2 pages long. I had it clearly laid out with headings and bullet points so they can pick out the main points from those.

I think the home ec course is very manageable, I completed it in one year, Im a repeat and done my leaving cert previously in 2007. I did do home ec last time but had forgotten everything. I put in a lot of work this year and I haope it pays off. Got the highest in the mocks with 72% but have done a lot of study since.

GregoryNimmo

I thought the English paper and Home ec paper were the easiest ones I've ever seen :O The Home ec section B and Section C were fan-flipping-tastic. The question on protein... I nearly... Done something rude.

Vodkat

GregoryNimmo wrote: »

I thought the English paper and Home ec paper were the easiest ones I've ever seen :O The Home ec section B and Section C were fan-flipping-tastic. The question on protein... I nearly... Done something rude.

The protein question was unreal... I drew a lovely diagram for the structure of an amino acid and the peptide bond formation.

The elective question couldnt have been any better. :D

What mark are you expecting to get?

GregoryNimmo

Vodkat wrote: »

The protein question was unreal... I drew a lovely diagram for the structure of an amino acid and the peptide bond formation.

The elective question couldnt have been any better. :D

What mark are you expecting to get?

I'm expecting to get like a B3 at minimum. MAYBE a c1. But seriously, I awnsered everything and found it all very easy. Guessed some short questions, checked them when I got home and they were right :P

smileeey

Hello everyone.
have to start by saying english and home ec on day one was truly terrible. im going for medicine and was putting myself under immense pressure. I had a meltdown during eng paper one, and to be honest was still incredicly upset going into home ec. I love homeec and was expecting an A1 but i dont know now.

Shorts were a gift. pretty happy there.
i was a little put off by B1. part (d) as a 20 marker? unusual. i basically scribbled down a few things for it when the time was up.
pretty happy to see protein though went well for me. my little rhyme of
Do = Denaturation
Indonesians = insolubility
Make = Mailliard reaction
every = elasticity
garment = gel formation

I did questions 2 and 3. happy with the diabetes part but the articficial sugars thing was not good. As for question 3 i basically copied out the food choices table. I did wheat didnt even consider doing cheese didnt think i could ?
for wheat it was basically
clean
blend
condition
break
classify
additives
package
and a small comment on each. i dunno was it enough.
for the sale of food and drugs act i desperately wrote down pretty universal things like hygiene, imports and backed by dept of ag like i hadnt a notion but i came up with 10 standard points that i hope will be accepted.

home management elective. i dont know really.
i went through quickly apartment, detached, and bungalow for housing styles with 3 reasons for popularity. dissapointed with this.

i was happy with planning permission
and went through building legislation of 1991

i ended up writing about non renewable solar energy which im raging about. I avoided lighting stupidly even though it probably would have a nicer marking scheme.

overall im not sure about 2011 home ec.
i put everything into it but i dont know will it be enough

best of luck to all x

Platinum2010

After Mocks teacher said "brush up your Elective and your getting at least an A2"
My elective in the actual exam was superb , just everything else was an epic failure

LittleMissLost

I got a B1 in the mock, best in the class, was looking for an A1.

Now I am genuinely looking at a C1/mayyyybe a B3. Devastated

I'm a med applicant too, guessing that's out the window!

I saw diabetes and thought "great". Finished that and then saw "artificial sweeteners" and realised I should have done Q3 but it was too late :mad:

So annoyed

Salty

I've always been an A/B student in home-ec...I bawled my way through the exam. Disaster. :(

LittleMissLost

_meehan_ wrote: »

I've always been an A/B student in home-ec...I bawled my way through the exam. Disaster. :(

Same here I was so upset at how bad I did!

But did you actually cry through it?! :eek: What did the examiner do/say?

Salty

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Same here I was so upset at how bad I did!

But did you actually cry through it?! :eek: What did the examiner do/say?

Yeah I did! Tears all through it. And it didn't help that I'm plagued with hayfever too so my nose was like a tap. I've never been so pathetic in my life.:(

She gave me a tissue, nothing else she could do really!

I couldn't stop thinking about how much my future is messed up because of it.

LittleMissLost

_meehan_ wrote: »

Yeah I did! Tears all through it. And it didn't help that I'm plagued with hayfever too so my nose was like a tap. I've never been so pathetic in my life.:(

She gave me a tissue, nothing else she could do really!

I couldn't stop thinking about how much my future is messed up because of it.

Awh no

I was the same except I didn't cry.. Funny actually because I'm usually the MOST emotional person ever! Are you a Med applicant too

I'm so sad at how bad I did in Home Ec.