** HL Ag Science Before/After **

Daniel7740

woopah92 wrote: »

Yeah that's the exact same as us. But that's still only 1 project, the Ag science project



Just record what went on the farm in as much detail as possible. Some of the real farmers did it on a day by day basis.

Twud only take a few minutes everyday to write down what ya did during the day, be handy out, wouldn't mind being able to do the project again, would do it a lot better 2nd time around ,,,pity I didn't join boards sooner to get some tips!

Daniel7740

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

I do it

What's it like, hard,easy? Was looking at the papers on examinations today and it didn't look to bad?

200c200c

Daniel7740 wrote: »

Did ye make it up or did ye actually go to a farm every month to see what happens?

Oh well we all live on farms so we just did our own farms :P I did mine week by week and so did others, but some people just did month by month
Like we documented an account of what happens on a typical day each week like the daily routine and then we put in anything else extra that happened throughout the week or month e.g herd test, sick animals etc ! And every month our teacher told us to take a specific topic and talk about it in detail like strip grazing or dosing cattle and stuff ! I love farming so I loved doing this

Daniel7740

200c200c wrote: »

Oh well we all live on farms so we just did our own farms :P I did mine week by week and so did others, but some people just did month by month
Like we documented an account of what happens on a typical day each week like the daily routine and then we put in anything else extra that happened throughout the week or month e.g herd test, sick animals etc ! And every month our teacher told us to take a specific topic and talk about it in detail like strip grazing or dosing cattle and stuff ! I love farming so I loved doing this

Would have loved it meself, as I also love my farming ! You goin doin ag next year seen as you love the aul farming?

eoinoc2509

Daniel7740 wrote: »

What's it like, hard,easy? Was looking at the papers on examinations today and it didn't look to bad?

Yeah its alright but its very boring

woopah92

Daniel7740 wrote: »

Twud only take a few minutes everyday to write down what ya did during the day, be handy out, wouldn't mind being able to do the project again, would do it a lot better 2nd time around ,,,pity I didn't join boards sooner to get some tips!

I'm just lucky my sister married a farmer! Without that I wouldn't have been able to do my project

Daniel7740

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

Yeah its alright but its very boring

Handy points?

Daniel7740

woopah92 wrote: »

I'm just lucky my sister married a farmer! Without that I wouldn't have been able to do my project

Have spent all my life living on a farm, and went out helping the father as soon as I could walk, and when I wasn't out helping him I had my own toy farm to work on haha

200c200c

Daniel7740 wrote: »

Would have loved it meself, as I also love my farming ! You goin doin ag next year seen as you love the aul farming?

Ah no I love it as a hobbie but never as a career !! You get nothing out of it only a bit of enjoyment , theres barely any profit involved :P I'll always have bullocks of my own though ! I own 4 of my own at the moment

eoinoc2509

Daniel7740 wrote: »

Handy points?

Yeah you do a project worth 20% but there are very few teachers that teach it

diarmo06

Such a mountain of experiments, anybody got any tips on how to get through them, or even a list of them would be great aha.... Help

Daniel7740

200c200c wrote: »

Ah no I love it as a hobbie but never as a career !! You get nothing out of it only a bit of enjoyment , theres barely any profit involved :P I'll always have bullocks of my own though ! I own 4 of my own at the moment

I know what you mean, be the best job in the world if you could make a profit out of it. A lot of hardship, hard work and little pay,,if only ya got payed by the hour for farming :O I really enjoy it though so I'm goin doing ag next year

Daniel7740

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

Yeah you do a project worth 20% but there are very few teachers that teach it

Less than a 100 people do it every year. Is the project similar to ag Scince ? Or is it just like watching beef and milk prices and the like?

200c200c

Daniel7740 wrote: »

I know what you mean, be the best job in the world if you could make a profit out of it. A lot of hardship, hard work and little pay,,if only ya got payed by the hour for farming :O I really enjoy it though so I'm goin doing ag next year

Too much hassle like working in all weather and at all hours of the day and night ! Where are you doing it ? The only profit is if you have a huge scale farm but then its not the same because its just like mass production with no attention to the animals and not the same feeling either

Daniel7740

diarmo06 wrote: »

Such a mountain of experiments, anybody got any tips on how to get through them, or even a list of them would be great aha.... Help

Have a look through your experiments in your project if you got it back

yoppo

diarmo06 wrote: »

Such a mountain of experiments, anybody got any tips on how to get through them, or even a list of them would be great aha.... Help

Just don't procrastinate and learn as much as you can. All you need is 5 points per experiment. Buy that revision book. It does the experiments very well.

Daniel7740

200c200c wrote: »

Too much hassle like working in all weather and at all hours of the day and night ! Where are you doing it ? The only profit is if you have a huge scale farm but then its not the same because its just like mass production with no attention to the animals and not the same feeling either

Either ucd or wit depending on how the leaving goes. Being out in the rain and night doesn't bother me at all but I suppose give me 20 years doin it full time and that might change haha. Definatley true about scale being the only way to make profit,

eoinoc2509

Daniel7740 wrote: »

Less than a 100 people do it every year. Is the project similar to ag Scince ? Or is it just like watching beef and milk prices and the like?

You do it on different topics related to farming like the barley sector, milk quota, or the CAP

Daniel7740

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

You do it on different topics related to farming like the barley sector, milk quota, or the CAP

Doesn't sound to bad, once you keep reading the farmers journal I'd say it should be an easy enough subject haha,,

mossy95

200c200c wrote: »

Yes :L We all had about 8 projects each full of photos and all our own personal farm experience too I suppose it did help that all 22 in our class were farmers The examiner said she had never seen projects like ours in 5 years doing this ! She was pure sound

Do you know the examiners name did she have blonde hair?

johneugene

yoppo wrote: »

Just don't procrastinate and learn as much as you can. All you need is 5 points per experiment. Buy that revision book. It does the experiments very well.

You need 6 points per experiment not 5...

Denis322

Never bothered with learning genetics before, but I figure I'll go over it over the weekend as it's pretty much the same stuff every year, hopefully it'll bump me up need the points for Ag in UCD

200c200c

mossy95 wrote: »

Do you know the examiners name did she have blonde hair?

No i dont know her name but I think she was from Kilkenny ! She had brown hair

C_Merr

johneugene wrote: »

Remember you need 6 valid points per experiment. (6x4)x2= 48

does that mean 6 steps in the method?

Daniel7740

Denis322 wrote: »

Never bothered with learning genetics before, but I figure I'll go over it over the weekend as it's pretty much the same stuff every year, hopefully it'll bump me up need the points for Ag in UCD

Hopefully be seeing ya in September so!

weirdspider

C_Merr wrote: »

does that mean 6 steps in the method?

Nope, some experiments don't even have 6 steps in the method! Just any 6 points, a result and conclusion can also count towards it.

Anyone doing Ag Science for the pure intention of getting points as opposed to doing it in college? :pac:

mossy95

weirdspider wrote: »

Nope, some experiments don't even have 6 steps in the method! Just any 6 points, a result and conclusion can also count towards it.

Anyone doing Ag Science for the pure intention of getting points as opposed to doing it in college? :pac:

Yup

Manunited12

What topics is everyone focussing on? Also for experiments do you learn the ones out of your book or just the ones you did in class? Terrible system with no mandatory experiments

weirdspider

Manunited12 wrote: »

What topics is everyone focussing on? Also for experiments do you learn the ones out of your book or just the ones you did in class? Terrible system with no mandatory experiments

I know, it used to annoy me but theres no point complaining, it won't change the fact that any could be on the paper! I'm studying everything as I have the time, but my focus is on crop and animal production and the experiments. I know a good bit of genetics from biology, I was initially going to leave it out but I just have to learn a few definitions and plough (;)) on with the papers!

Manunited12

Yeah true no point giving out , yeah I'm going to focus on crops and animal production , genetics and soils and experiments I think and that should cover most of the paper!