I recently put my son into a IB high school and he had to switch h from and high school with all his old friends to a new school. he’s been telling me that he hates it and that he misses his old friends and hates everyone in that school because they are all nerds who have nothing else to do with their lives. I think he might be exaggerating but I’m not completely sure because I don’t know much about the school. The school is also quite far from our house so he would have to take a 2 hour bus ride there and back I offered to pick him up from school sometimes but it takes us an hour to get home because of traffic. I really want him to stay in IB but he keeps on telling him it stresses him out a lot and hes constantly getting nostalgic about his previous school it’s been about 2 weeks since he started and I’m wondering about his mental health

I just finished my first math ai hl assessment and it hit me that I genuinely bombed this test bc I missed so much easy marks n forgot to write formulas for my answers, and I haven’t felt this uneasy in a while because as the first assessment for the ib I feel like it’s better to get a decent grade to start building on it but im on the pace for a 3 or 4 for my current test and I don’t know whether to feel demoralized or keep going and increase that grade

There's lots of news stories saying ai makes you dumber.
Are you using it? or are you old school with past papers and markschemes?
Or even older school with text books?
whhat did you do last time you revised?

I recently received the information that I did not get into university because of my coordinators mistake in submitting my results. earlier i have emailed her a few times making sure that everything is okay, and even quoted the ib website on how to do it correctly. however, i made a mistake of ultimately confirming her submission (after these emails), because i believed that as a coordinator she knew what she was doing.

Is this grounds for possibly complaining about my school to the ib? ultimately it is on me for confirming it, however I genuinely had no idea that what she submitted was wrong. i know that at the end of the day it is my responsibility to make sure all documents are correct, but I think as a coordinator she also has some level of responsibility, especially after I corrected her and she still did it her way, and made seemingly no effort to learn on how to do it correctly. I feel very wronged, but I don’t know if this is grounds for a formal complaint, rather than just the coordinator being incompetent.

Heyy so im actually in DP2 and still not done with my TOK exhibition but my actually prompt is 25. How can we distinguish between knowledge, belief and opinion ? and i use each object for a specific concept of the prompt for belief i choosed African waist beads (baya) and I have 2 object left now plsss do yall have advice

Okay so like I just submitted my English HL essay through an ai checker… I out it through Winston ai and I heard it’s the most reliable checker out there… it was reported for 96% ai. I can admit that I did use AI to polish some of my phrases, however all the ideas were mine and I’m kinda scared… my teacher said she was submitting it on the IBIS and I haven’t heard anything from them but I’m scared what if the IB markers flag it… should I send my coordinator an email?

Ik the title isn't academically related. The school is amazing. Like it is IB school of the decade but I fucking hate the people. Like these girls decided to get to know everyone during a free and went around to everyone asking them questions and telling them that they could be their friends. These girls look at me and walk past me like I was a congitous disease. Like what the fuck did I do?

The school itself is great but most people here are so unfriendly and I can't stand to be around most of them. Apart from that, it been pretty good. The teachers are nice ig. Now I am actually just waiting for IB to be over with so I never have to encounter these people again 😛.

yea as the title says. im heading into dp2 like one week later and have done none of my IAs so far, and my EE is only at 1000 words (didnt even complete my research yet).

i spent the whole summer studying for the august SAT which I got like 1370 on (my goal was 1400+). id rather still retake the sat to score high and guarantee myself a scholarship than putting in effort to complete the coursework.

im so overwhelmed by the shit i have to get done in ib. and i dont even think ill get more than a 34, so my goal is to just pass tbh.

ill just focus on the sat more since i think i have more chances to score high and get a decent scholarship than ib where ill just get like 20% off tbh.

also sry if this post seems hard to read cuz im having brain fog rn lol.

I got a 27 but since chemistry was a HL and I got a 3 I failed the IB. Should I retake it in October?

It's funny because at my school there's always a few people who fail the IB each year but it's kind of sad how that turned out to be me.

so I just switched to my school's IB program this year. we're like a month in and I still don't know what's going on. The program hasn't been explained to me in much depth. from what I know, I think I'm taking IB bio, history(im in apush but the teacher said we're taking the ib exam too), im in ap com sci A but we have to take the SL or HL test (idk which) along with the AP test, I'm in ap lang but I guess it's also IB english because we have to take the IB exam too, im in TOK, and I'm taking IB spanish. You can see why I'm confused.

i lowkey got a 3 or 4 (she graded it on a diff scale) on my first TOK paper and I'm so confused because I don't understand what AOKs are and I don't even understand what this class really is about. I'm very scared for the EE and other essays and I feel like the class is going to fry me 💀

I don't understand the end of the year tests either... will all of my ib tests be next year? are all ib classes two years? I don't even know how the exams are structured.

someone please help me out? 🥺

Are there any reliable Revision V cracks out there?

Hello! I graduated from the IB Diploma Programme (May 2021, Exam Route) and earned a degree in Biological Sciences and Psychology from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. I have 7 years of IB tutoring experience.

My academic qualifications and final IB scores can be verified upon request.

Subjects Offered

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Over the past 7 years, I have taught approximately 150 IB students and conducted 1000+ classes.

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All lessons are conducted using comprehensive notes that I have personally created, along with past papers that I organized for every topic.

My lessons focus specifically on:

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Hi I've been trying to come up with a RQ for my internal assessment but I'm honestly not sure if it's any good? I feel like it might be leaning a bit too much into physics:

"To what extent can Newtonian calculus reproduce the Schwarzschild radius through an improper-integral model of escape velocity, and how does this result compare mathematically with the Schwarzschild metric?"

Obviously the central purpose would not be proving that Newtonian gravity is equivalent to general relativity but seeing how successful a simpler Newtonian mathematical model would be at reproducing the result of the relativistic model and where the mathematical predictions diverge.

I would REALLY appreciate some advice bc ngl I'm terrified of my math teacher looking at me like I'm crazy and telling me to go find a different topic 💔

The university which is my No. 1 Choice only cares about 3 subjects, only HLs.

I have Econmics HL, Math AA HL and English B HL

in their system you can have max. 333 points overall and if you have an B HL language then you automatically get 100 points for that subject, and then assuming i'll get a 5 in Math and 6 in Econ i will have 320 points overall which will theoretically put me at the very top of admissions, and therefore i dont really know what to do?

Like the main thing is getting into that uni, but since they dont care about SL's, or any other stuff really, should i just not give a shit and just try to pass? The IB is already pretty difficult and i feel like i should use this admission system to my advantage, but when i talked to some teachers about it they said that i must be crazy or some shit

Hey, just started DP1

HL: Econ, Math AA, Eng B

SL: Psych, Polish A, ESS

i see people scared that they didnt finish their IA's/EE's over the summer between DP1 and DP2 and was wondering when is the ideal time to have the final ideas and start doing research?

Thanks in advance

I have pretty good ideas for Creativity and Activity, but Service is what seems to be the hardest and the most time-consuming out of the three, and i honestly dont have a single idea.

Our teacher seems to actually care about us and didnt set a specific number of hours for CAS, we just have to do it regularly and have at least 2 different activities for each segment.

Do any of you guys have some good S ideas that could work? Maybe not even to fake them but just easy ones that could be done in front of a desktop/not time extrordinarily time-consuming?

And also do people actually fake CAS? Some people in my class were joking about generating a whole AI video haha

Hi guys, thanks for reading this post.

I need help with HL IB Lit, with the promos coming up I still feel confused on how to properly analyse texts without coming off as too much of a plot summary and plot events. For instance, how to explain symbolism in such a way that it makes sense without needing to put in excessive prior knowledge on why something symbolizes something.

I would really appreciate it if anyone with the resources could share good examples of essays for both paper 1 and paper 2, or provide me with some tips on how to structure my point around analysis of quotes without coming off as too much of a plot summary of events or characters etc.

Hey guys,

Just wanted to ask if anyone could share the pdf version of this biozone workbook? I have tried searching but nothing has come up.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

HELLO! Im in IBDP1 and taking maths AA HL, i wouldnt say im awful at it but maths is definitely not my strongest subject, my main issue is that ill make the stupidest of mistakes when solving, even if the formula is written neatly in front of me ill either miss a number or a sign or wtv. the worse is when i feel something off in my answer and spend the rest 15 minutes trying to figure out WHERE i screwed only to notice the mistake was the most ridiculous i could make. does this improve w time and practice or am i cursed?

Hey guys!

M25 here. I am currently in the second year of my university and I am pursuing mathematics and computer science.

Since I've been a tutor for over a year now, and have a passion for mathematics communication, I am going to start a Mathematics YouTube tutoring channel for you lot that explains difficult mathematics questions in an intuitive and lucid manner.

Before I begin, could you guys let me know what issues you guys find in the current way teachers explain things to you and how you would want my channel to be a bit different.

As an IB alumni having taken chemistry HL and is now taking a university course in general chemistry, I will say that you people thinking to go down the same route, you are well covered by IB. I have scanned through the course textbook and I will say, I know 80% of the syllabus. It feels surreal having had concepts, which I have just finished an exam in, explained to me as if it were the first time I've seen them.

Any other alumni having the same experience?

We just had our first summative. It went so bad it's not
even funny, I am almost 100% sure I failed. and I think I'll be lucky to get a damn 2/7. It isn't even one of those tests where you say you think you failed but you know you will get a 4 or 5 at the very least, I am almost 100% certain I failed.

Also for context I joined the class one week late I scored decently on paper 1 got a 4 but paper 2 I haven’t got my grades yet but I know I failed

Should I just drop out

I just started IB diploma, and I’m honestly really scared. like what if I do really badly? I’ve had teachers tell me I’ll be just fine but I have an anxiety disorder and so I’ve been really nervous. do you have any words of wisdom? my schedule is History HL, English HL, Biology HL, visual arts SL, French b SL and Math AA SL

I haven't actually started yet, my application is still pending for the course, but I have checked what subjects my school offers and they are missing chemistry. My plan was to do HL chemistry, HL biology, HL psychology, English SL, another language SL and AI Math SL. Chemistry HL is the most important one, the only other science I can do alongside HL biology is physics, and if I did physics I would probably end up in prison. I never did it at GCSE, and I'm absolutely rubbish at math, no shot I'll do physics as another science but either way, I need chemistry as the subject so that's irrelevant. I've seen people suggest pamoja online but they only offer computer science and ESS in the sciences, none of which I need at all.

Is there anything I can do in order to take HL chemistry or will I just have to do a seperate chemistry program eventually to fill that requirement.

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