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Answering maths through Irish?

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  • 08-06-2005 8:48pm
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    JohnCleary
    Registered Users Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭


    Ive heard rumour that if you answer your maths through Irish you get 10% extra of your grade added?
    How trus is this?
    Whats the procedure? Just tick the "Gaeilge" box at the front and answer like "Freagra =" and "Achar=" ??

    Any info much appreciated


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    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    JohnCleary wrote:
    Ive heard rumour that if you answer your maths through Irish you get 10% extra of your grade added?
    How trus is this?
    Whats the procedure? Just tick the "Gaeilge" box at the front and answer like "Freagra =" and "Achar=" ??

    Any info much appreciated


    You have to answer all or one of them in Irish i am afraid and it is not 10% it is like you get 10% of what you get wrong right if you get me
    like say you get 90% the you get 91%


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    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Check this out .

    The mark you're awarded depends on the subject, and on the percentage you didn't get.

    This answering through Irish thing is very misuderstood. A good student will receive pretty much the same mark regardless of whether they answer in Irish or not.


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    Cutie18Ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭Cutie18Ireland


    and u have to pre-register it too!! like months ahead and supposedly u then have to sit all in irish!!


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    Ro: maaan!
    Registered Users Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Ro: maaan!


    Doing them all through Irish is quite good if there are any subjects that you're worried about failing. But that's it really. And it's not great for subjects like Maths and Accounting. It's only 5% of what you don't get. With something like Geography you can pass if you get 34%


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    Groovychick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Groovychick


    In maths and french you only get 5% of what you get up to 70% and after that you get 5% of what is left. You get 10% in accounting, but you have to write all your terms out in irish or most of them anyways! can't wait for accounting, banking on an A1 in that and an A in Irish too hopefully!!


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    wheresthebeef
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭wheresthebeef


    you have to read the questions in irish too. for some questions in maths that could be difficult.


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    Shyster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Shyster


    oh for godsake, in everything except for languages and maths its 10% of what you dont get up to around 70%, after that its on a sliding scale, and pretty worthless
    in languages its the same thing but only 5% of what you dont get. which is stupid cos the aural is the hardest part to do in irish.
    anyway, dont waste the correctors time with "ticking the gaeilge box". they're wise to it and you need a minimum amount of irish words on the paper.


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    JohnCleary
    Registered Users Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    OK I am very confused... I thought this would be a simple answer...

    Since I am quite good at Irish and I know im going to do brutal at Maths (O) tomorrow (Bad as in... scraping a pass!), would it be worth my while doing it as Gaeilge?

    -EDIT- That website actually summed things up pretty well, thanks poster :)


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    Vikings
    Registered Users Posts: 2,788 ✭✭✭Vikings


    Youre simply not able to.


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    Shyster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Shyster


    hope you didnt do it, cos they know by your exam centre.


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    JohnCleary
    Registered Users Posts: 10,211 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    I did... we'll see what happens :)

    Just wrote "Freagra" though... id say 99.9% no difference!


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    angeldelight
    Registered Users Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭angeldelight


    JohnCleary wrote:
    I did... we'll see what happens :)

    Just wrote "Freagra" though... id say 99.9% no difference!

    Nothing will happen cause you're not going to do all your other exams in Irish and you haven't told them you're going to do that so they'll just ignore it.


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    Molly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭Molly


    You don't have to do all your exams in Irish. You do however have to be registered to do certain exams in irish. My sister sat her Maths paper 1 in Irish today and will be sitting paper 2 in Irish as well. She won't be sitting any other exam this way. Also when you sit a paper in Irish you also recieve the english copy of the paper as well.


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