**OL Maths Paper 1 - Before/After **

The Pheasant

Musicmental85 wrote: »

Oh that sounds good. So frustrating not being there for them.

You sound like quite a dedicated teacher - fairplay, good to see that now and then...but yeah they'll be fine, was a lovely paper

whiteandlight

Learnt from the best, both parents secondary teachers and I've lived with the annual stress of the exams all my life! You just want your students to have the chance to show off the knowledge they have

Lcstudent2013

Anyone remember what what theory question was? It was in the question when you had to calculate the two men's salaries.

Clandestine

Finished just past half 3 but I stayed to check over everything for another 30 minutes or so. I had to skip the f'(x) questions, had no idea.

mayoman1995

Clandestine wrote: »

Finished just past half 3 but I stayed to check over everything for another 30 minutes or so. I had to skip the f'(x) questions, had no idea.

that was just normal differentiation

stephenjmcd

That 60 marker q6 what was up with that , so easy

Jade.

I thought it was awful :O Not one person in my class thought it was easy!

Saying that I had the same reaction to the pre and got a B1 in paper 1 so fingers crossed!

stephenjmcd

Jade. wrote: »

I thought it was awful :O Not one person in my class thought it was easy!

Saying that I had the same reaction to the pre and got a B1 in paper 1 so fingers crossed!

Not even the 60 marker ???

MartyP

paper one was nice, not sure about 3 parts but attemted everything. i should do well in maths nice relief to do good in something after messing up in geography

stephenjmcd

Was nervous going in but I'm am sure I got that 60 marker right , a few of the 25 ones and bits of the 40 ones, attempted all parts bar 2, all rests on paper 2 now . Quick question say I get 170 on paper 1 and say 80 marks on paper 2, although I will have failed p2 do I pass maths as I have passed the 240 mark from both papers

Jordan537

yes

JustForClarity

That was one of the easiest paper ones I've seen, including the sample papers. The last part of some questions gave me some trouble but I'm expecting decent attempt marks for them.

Went in hoping to pass since I'm not using Maths for points, but I think I should study paper two over the weekend now and go for an A1/A2.

ray2012

I knew something about the arithmetic sequence would come up (I posted to learn it on page 1 of this thread )
It's great to have my first good paper of the leaving cert, considering English paper 1 and 2 went ****e.

Hoping for attempt marks in sections though, like the part getting the local max and min point.. I always failed with those :P

Jordan537

any chance paper 2 will be very hard to even it out ?

JustForClarity

ray2012 wrote: »

I knew something about the arithmetic sequence would come up (I posted to learn it on page 1 of this thread )
It's great to have my first good paper of the leaving cert, considering English paper 1 and 2 went ****e.

Hoping for attempt marks in sections though, like the part getting the local max and min point.. I always failed with those :P

I made it up as I went along in the exam, but think I may have actually gotten somewhere with it. Did anyone else get a maximum point of 0 and a minimum point of -4?

Either way, I believe if you drew the graph correctly using whatever points you got (even if they're wrong), they give you full marks for that part.

Lcstudent2013

JustForClarity wrote: »

I made it up as I went along in the exam, but think I may have actually gotten somewhere with it. Did anyone else get a maximum point of 0 and a minimum point of -4?

Either way, I believe if you drew the graph correctly using whatever points you got (even if they're wrong), they give you full marks for that part.

Yes I got the same points

eoinoc2509

JustForClarity wrote: »

I made it up as I went along in the exam, but think I may have actually gotten somewhere with it. Did anyone else get a maximum point of 0 and a minimum point of -4?

Either way, I believe if you drew the graph correctly using whatever points you got (even if they're wrong), they give you full marks for that part.

Yeah i got those points. Can you remember what you got for the trapazodial one?

chikatita

feck ye all I thought it was impossible most definitely failed

JustForClarity

Jordan537 wrote: »

any chance paper 2 will be very hard to even it out ?

That's what I'm worried about. I think I've already passed with paper one though so it's only grade-building at this point.

Lcstudent2013 wrote: »

Yes I got the same points

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

Yeah i got those points. Can you remember what you got for the trapazodial one?

Cool, I guess it's true that you remember stuff you didn't think you knew during the exams! Which one was the trapazoidal one? I'm not sure about the terminology tbh.

ray2012

I got those points too I think actually! I'll get most attempt marks for it anyways.

What did ye get for the credit limit thing? I got that he would be in excess by like, 18c :P

I did it a really awkward way though by doing each month separately (I'd say there is an easier way). But I suppose if you get any number over the 1000 you're right.

Lucan Bohs

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

Yeah i got those points. Can you remember what you got for the trapazodial one?

I got 70

JustForClarity

ray2012 wrote: »

I got those points too I think actually! I'll get most attempt marks for it anyways.

What did ye get for the credit limit thing? I got that he would be in excess by like, 18c :P

I did it a really awkward way though by doing each month separately (I'd say there is an easier way). But I suppose if you get any number over the 1000 you're right.

Oh no, was that question asking for how much he'd be over by? I thought it was asking just to prove he'd be over the limit by month fifteen. I also did it month-by-month because I didn't know which formula to use.

Also, did anyone else have difficulty with the question asking you to do out a table for the tanks? I had to ask for another sheet of paper since the box for that part was tiny!

ray2012

chikatita wrote: »

feck ye all I thought it was impossible most definitely failed

Don't worry about it, many people in my exam center found it really tough. I'm sure a load of people did. The bell curve will suit the most students to get them to pass. No point worrying about that paper, make sure you study your ass for paper 2 to get revenge on that paper! :P If you think you did a bad paper 1, let that influence you to study hard for paper 2

spurious

The papers are up on www.examinations.ie

ray2012

JustForClarity wrote: »

Oh no, was that question asking for how much he'd be over by? I thought it was asking just to prove he'd be over the limit by month fifteen. I also did it month-by-month because I didn't know which formula to use.

Also, did anyone else have difficulty with the question asking you to do out a table for the tanks? I had to ask for another sheet of paper since the box for that part was tiny!

Nope, it wasn't asking what he was over by, you just had to prove it. I just gave that 1000.18 answer to see if anyone on here got the same. :pac:

Tommyrawr

stephenjmcd wrote: »

That 60 marker q6 what was up with that , so easy

I know I loved the 40 and 60 Im nearly positive I got them right I couldn't have asked for a nicer paper

JustForClarity

ray2012 wrote: »

Nope, it wasn't asking what he was over by, you just had to prove it. I just gave that 1000.18 answer to see if anyone on here got the same. :pac:

I got the same too. I was getting worried towards the end because I didn't think it would exceed €1,000 and that I had just wasted a good five or ten minutes doing it out the long way.

eoinoc2509

JustForClarity wrote: »

That's what I'm worried about. I think I've already passed with paper one though so it's only grade-building at this point.





Cool, I guess it's true that you remember stuff you didn't think you knew during the exams! Which one was the trapazoidal one? I'm not sure about the terminology tbh.

the rule for it wa in the log tables and there was a graph for part a

Daniel7740

If paper 2 goes as well as paper 1 I think I could be looking at a potential A1!

ray2012

JustForClarity wrote: »

I got the same too. I was getting worried towards the end because I didn't think it would exceed €1,000 and that I had just wasted a good five or ten minutes doing it out the long way.

I was the exact same. when I was putting the last calculation into the calculator I was like "PLEASE exceed 1000 Euro >__>". Was so happy when it did. :cool: