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State Examinations Commission
Leaving Certificate Examination
Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Modelling Project
Sample Reporting Booklet
Higher and Ordinary Level
100 marks
Examination Number 6 Digit Number
Day and Month of Birth Format DD/MM
Information for Candidates, Teachers and Schools
Completion of the report
Your report on your mathematical modelling project must be completed in this booklet,
using the prescribed structure. The booklet has been supplied to you in Microsoft Word
(.docx) format. You must submit your completed booklet in this format. It is your
responsibility to ensure that all electronic material submitted is free from viruses etc.,
so that the file can be opened for assessment.
Examiners will only mark work that is submitted as outlined in this booklet.
Your report must not exceed 900 words (excluding references, equations, diagrams,
graphs, etc.). Your report must not include more than 20 images. An image can be any
relevant table, graph, chart, diagram or photograph. The total file size of your digital
report including all embedded images must not exceed 100 MB. Videos must not be
included in your report.
You must not change the structure or format of the booklet in any way and should adhere
to the following formatting guidelines:
o The text should be in Arial, font size 12.
o You may make use of text editing features such as italics, bullets, etc.
o Document margins have been set and should not be changed. The text margins for
each A4 page are:
left margin: 20 mm
right margin: 20 mm
top margin: 20 mm
bottom margin: 35 mm
You are not allowed to change these settings or otherwise circumvent these restrictions,
which are set to facilitate online marking. You are also not allowed to attach or include
links to any other material (other than references).
When referring in the body of the report to any specific image, the image must be properly
labelled (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). Images should not be used as a means to include
additional text. It is advisable not to use images where a person or persons in these images
may be identifiable.
Penalties may apply where the overall word count or image count or file size is exceeded.
You must reference any information used in your report, such as: publications – including
books, professional journals and government reports; online sources and other types of
media; specialist organisations and relevant individuals. To include such material without
properly referencing the source will be considered plagiarism.
The State Examinations Commission will provide further information in relation to the
appropriate file name to use and how your school will upload the digital coursework to the
school portal in due course.
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Your project must be backed up by the school on a secure encrypted storage system until
the State Examinations Commission is satisfied that the projects have been received and
are accessible. This will require material being retained until the examination process is
complete, including until after the appeal process is completed.
Authentication
The mathematical modelling project and report must be your own individual work –
authenticated by yourself, by your teacher and by your school management authority.
Authentication is an important part of how the State Examinations Commission ensures
fairness to everybody in the assessment of coursework.
While you may carry out background research relevant to the brief on your own and/or at
home, all other parts of your project and your report must be completed under the
supervision of your teacher in accordance with the conditions set down by the State
Examinations Commission as outlined in Circulars S69/04 and S68/08, which are available
at [Link].
Any case of suspected copying, plagiarism, improper assistance or procurement of work
prepared by another party will be thoroughly investigated. These actions are breaches of
examination rules and attract the penalties described in the Rules and Programme for
Secondary Schools. The penalties include: loss of the marks for the project, loss of the
subject, loss of the entire examination in all subjects, or being debarred from the
Certificate Examinations in subsequent years. There may be serious consequences for any
person who provides you with inappropriate assistance, as this is an offence under the
Education Act 1998.
Your teacher must supervise your completion of both the project and the report. If your
teacher cannot confirm that the project and report are your own work, and that you
carried out the project and completed the report under your teacher’s supervision, the
State Examinations Commission will not accept your report for assessment. In that case,
you will forfeit the marks for this component of the examination. Teachers and the
authorities of schools are familiar with the detailed requirements to ensure that practical
and project work is valid for examination purposes. You should comply fully with all
requests that are made by the teacher and the school in order to enable authentication of
your work.
Responsibility for complying with examination requirements rests with you, the candidate.
If the requirements are not followed, your teacher and school will have no choice but to
bring this to the attention of the State Examinations Commission.
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Report Structure and Mark Allocations
Section Indicative Content Marks
Introduction and Research Background research on brief 20
Identify specific problem(s) to be modelled
Research specific problem(s)
Identify relevant variables
Present relevant data
Provide citations and references
The Modelling Process Explain and justify model and assumptions 50
Compute solutions
Present solutions using appropriate
mathematical and graphical representations
Analysis of solution(s) – sensitivity to changes
in assumptions; comparison with other
solutions or real-world data
Iterative process
Interpretation of Results Interpretation of solution(s) in real-world 15
context
Conclusions and reflections
Communication and This is not a distinct section of the report. 15
Innovation
Innovative and creative approaches
Overall coherence
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Mathematical Modelling Project
Type into the space below the title of your mathematical modelling project.
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Word count
Do not complete the following table until after you have finished your report.
Section Number of words
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Introduction and Research 20 marks
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The Modelling Process 50 marks
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Interpretation of Results 15 marks
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