“Higher-level maths students faced a challenging paper, but many will have been pleased with the overdue appearance of financial maths, teachers have said.” There was no pleasure in that exam at all!
Seems stupid to prepare students with a syllabus and then throw questions of “unfamiliar concepts” at them on exam day.
The leaving cert marking follows a bell curve so you just have to not be among the worst who sat the paper and you will pass. Instances like this is why attempting every question is *really* important.
It’s so dumb they do this on the year group who didn’t have a junior cert just praying P2 is better so we can all pass
Roantree is an industry plant smh
> This paper continues a recent trend towards asking questions which probe students’ understanding of concepts
What the fuck else would an exam be for?
I blame the ~~parents~~ teachers
A paper like this is actually really good and I think our education system is moving in the right direction. The leaving cert has just changed into a past paper grind and a test of memory and in some subjects, such as chemistry or biology, that might be alright but it should never be the case with maths. Given the results are on a bell curve, there’s no reason not to throw hard papers at students and especially in a paper like maths, students who do good should do good because of their ability, not knowledge of past papers. By challenging students to think about concepts during exams, it becomes a more creative/innovative paper, the type of learning we want more. The trend toward past papers has made our system become more like Korea and places such as grind schools really shouldn’t be as beneficial as they are. Just my thoughts on the issue.
I thought the paper was grand. The ‘understanding’ parts weren’t like ‘did you remember this fine print on page 289 of your maths book’, they were things that students could figure out by a process of reasonable deduction by using simple algebraic concepts. In the new age of technology, we want people who are really good critical thinkers in high points courses such as medicine/engineering so it’s better for Ireland as a whole
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Seems stupid to prepare students with a syllabus and then throw questions of “unfamiliar concepts” at them on exam day.
The leaving cert marking follows a bell curve so you just have to not be among the worst who sat the paper and you will pass. Instances like this is why attempting every question is *really* important.
It’s so dumb they do this on the year group who didn’t have a junior cert just praying P2 is better so we can all pass
Roantree is an industry plant smh
> This paper continues a recent trend towards asking questions which probe students’ understanding of concepts
What the fuck else would an exam be for?
I blame the ~~parents~~ teachers
A paper like this is actually really good and I think our education system is moving in the right direction. The leaving cert has just changed into a past paper grind and a test of memory and in some subjects, such as chemistry or biology, that might be alright but it should never be the case with maths. Given the results are on a bell curve, there’s no reason not to throw hard papers at students and especially in a paper like maths, students who do good should do good because of their ability, not knowledge of past papers. By challenging students to think about concepts during exams, it becomes a more creative/innovative paper, the type of learning we want more. The trend toward past papers has made our system become more like Korea and places such as grind schools really shouldn’t be as beneficial as they are. Just my thoughts on the issue.
I thought the paper was grand. The ‘understanding’ parts weren’t like ‘did you remember this fine print on page 289 of your maths book’, they were things that students could figure out by a process of reasonable deduction by using simple algebraic concepts. In the new age of technology, we want people who are really good critical thinkers in high points courses such as medicine/engineering so it’s better for Ireland as a whole