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*Leaving Cert Applied Maths Thread*
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So how did the mocks go for everyone?
Me, I had only covered 4 questions and I almost failed
Looks like I'l be doing lots and lots of practice for the next two months.
Don't be disheartened by the mocks, the questions are sometimes made by people who have their own version of how physics works....:rolleyes:
Given how the exam is structured, just learning to do 1 or 2 questions very well from now til june would see a massive increase in grades0 -
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Don't be disheartened by the mocks, the questions are sometimes made by people who have their own version of how physics works....:rolleyes:
Given how the exam is structured, just learning to do 1 or 2 questions very well from now til june would see a massive increase in grades
Yeah I think Linear Acceleration and Impacts are my strong points, maybe pulleys as well. I've to make sure I can definitely do them..
I hate RV.Is only having 7 questions covered a bit risky? I'm going to do 1,2,3,4,5,8 and 10. How many are ye doing?
I was going to ask if only covering 6 is a bit risky
I've done Q1,2,3,5 doing 4 and 10 at the moment, I'll probably have them covered during Easter. Not sure if I should do Q7 after that or just revise..0 -
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Mr Pseudonym wrote: »Then, seven is definitely sufficient. Just concentrate on practising questions, now.
I know, I failed the mocks but I think I can pull it off
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Mr Pseudonym wrote: »I failed the mocks and got an A1.
Christ almighty. How'd you manage that? I failed it fairly badly tho, 25% or so. What did you do to get your grade up so much. That's incredibly impressive
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Christ almighty. How'd you manage that? I failed it fairly badly tho, 25% or so. What did you do to get your grade up so much. That's incredibly impressive
It's not that good, tbh. My mock result doesn't really tell the whole story: I took up the subject in a repeat year, so had only been taking it for five months by the mocks; I hadn't been doing study to that point, only homework (often which was completed in class); and the paper was tricky.
The cause of improvement was just consistent and productive study, coupled with having a very good teacher with excellent notes.
None of what I did was particularly exciting, but I'll post a brief account in a while.
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Mr Pseudonym wrote: »It's not that good, tbh. My mock result doesn't really tell the whole story: I took up the subject in a repeat year, so had only been taking it for five months by the mocks; I hadn't been doing study to that point, only homework (often which was completed in class); and the paper was tricky.
The cause of improvement was just consistent and productive study, coupled with having a very good teacher with excellent notes.
None of what I did was particularly exciting, but I'll post a brief account in a while.
Still a huge improvement, I'd be happy to reproduce even half of your success haha 0 -
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Still a huge improvement, I'd be happy to reproduce even half of your success haha
I stress, nothing of what I did was radical.
But, I identified two main things:
While competent with the material, I was very inconsistent - I could go from getting-out a question in ten minutes to it taking an hour or more. So, I made substantial efforts on that front. Every time that I would get stuck in a never-ending loop for a question, I would (having got the answer) establish what caused it. Having done that, I would redo the question.
Effectively, all the questions are repeats from previous years. Therefore, all my study consisted of doing previous questions. I did them in order, and kept meticulous records. After every question, I would write a brief description of how I faired, various traps that I noticed but avoided, and anything else I felt would be helpful. When making those notes, it's important to remember that you will be below your peak mental-acuity in the exam - because of exam environment, fatigue, etc - and so what might seem obvious at home won't seem obvious then. As best I could, though not obsessively, I would try to group similar questions allowing me to easily revise certain sub-concepts. Some teachers get their students to answer questions as far back as the seventies; I only went as far back as the late nineties.
Hope that helps.AtomicKoala wrote: »I have only seven questions done: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8.
Statics (7) is really a non option for me, so the question is, what question should I teach myself? Circular Motion? Differential Equations?
As I implied in a previous post, I'm not sure it's necessary to have an eighth topic. But, as Q6 contains both CM and SHM, and as some SHM q's can be quite tricky, I would go for Differential Equations. It's also quite a nice question once you get over the change in style from algebra to calculus.0 -
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From my experience of the exam last year, I had a basic understanding of 1 & 2 but I knew 3,4,5,6,8 & 10 Fairly well. I got an A1 so my advice would be to know 6 questions very very well.. (I had every exam paper back until applied maths inception in the 60's done), then when you going you've encountered pretty much anything that can come up! 0
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The 60s? Mein gott, is there anywhere online one can find that far back? :eek:From my experience of the exam last year, I had a basic understanding of 1 & 2 but I knew 3,4,5,6,8 & 10 Fairly well. I got an A1 so my advice would be to know 6 questions very very well.. (I had every exam paper back until applied maths inception in the 60's done), then when you going you've encountered pretty much anything that can come up!
I've almost done all the years I have 0 -
AtomicKoala wrote: »The 60s? Mein gott, is there anywhere online one can find that far back? :eek:
I've almost done all the years I have
http://www.thephysicsteacher.ie/exammaterialappliedmaths.html has back to 19700 -
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From my experience of the exam last year, I had a basic understanding of 1 & 2 but I knew 3,4,5,6,8 & 10 Fairly well. I got an A1 so my advice would be to know 6 questions very very well.. (I had every exam paper back until applied maths inception in the 60's done), then when you going you've encountered pretty much anything that can come up!
fair play on the dedication, can only imagine using ft instead of m was a pain though!0 -
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