By students in their own words
How did maths go?
JUST finished maths Paper 1 at 10.30, Thought it was a lovely paper, went brilliant . . . so happy with it!!
. . . Thought it was grand. Dropped down to Ordinary about three weeks ago and haven't done anything since, but I pretty much breezed through it and left just before 11. Hopefully I didn't miss half the questions or something . . .
. . . Hoping you are all Ordinary level heads, as I found higher paper to be quiet difficult. The Intergration Q which is normally fairly handy was a monster. I got the answer out for Q1 and Q2 but thought they were fairly hard compared to normal. But what about Q5 C WTF, maybe it was obvious but it looked pretty strange to me.
The verdict on the timetable
. . . Just been hearing a lot of negative comments towards the new leaving cert timetable, that Hanafin has 'punished' the people who do home ec and chemistry. I do chemistry, yes I had 3 hours of English, and then 3 hours of chemistry, but thought it was fine. There's 60,000 people doing the leaving cert, there's obviously always going to be someone upset. . .
. . . New timetable is crap for me. Yeah I get 3 half-days to start off with, but next week I've 3 full days, 6 exams. It hasn't changed anything . . .
. . . A friend of mine does Home Ec and Chem, but she was saying it wasn't that bad. She got feeling back in her hand during the first hour of break, so it didn't really affect her in that sense. Considering that I don't do either, I did kinda love the extra half day's time to study for paper two
Calculator questions
. . . Got a sweet ass sharp write view el-w531 calculator today (allowed, right?) Well, it can do things such as tell me cos of 2 pi over 3 is minus a half, just like that. Would it be very unwise to write it down like that in an exam, even if it's a Q such as complex numbers? If you get the correct answer, do they break marks off for work not shown? This calculator even looks like it can do crap like standard deviation. Do any of you use it for that? How? It can't pop up what the formula for standard deviation is, right, and that's what makes it legal in the LC? . . .
. . . Hey, I have that calculator too and I heard that you're allowed to use it. Apparently it even solves quadratics. However, the examiner will notice if you put down an answer without working it out fully . . . But yeah you are allowed to use that calculator. The only ones you're not allowed are ones that you can programme formulas and notes into . . .
. . . Eh HELLLO peoples!! The examiner won't know if you've used a super-fancy calculator!! As long as you write the model of a legal one in the space, then fair feck to ya I say!! . . .
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