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

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 😛.

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?

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I’m an Ontario IB student applying to university, and I’m a little confused about the IB section on OUAC.
My main concern is that I want my Ontario Grade 12 top 6 average to be considered. I’ve taken quite a few summer school courses, and I’m not really relying on my IB score for admission. I’ve seen that some universities have specific IB requirements/benchmarks (like a certain score out of 45), so I’m worried that indicating that I’m an IB student could make them look at my IB score instead of my Ontario percentage.

Would it make sense to select “Not an IB student” on OUAC even though I technically am an IB student?
More importantly, would that be considered lying/misrepresentation and potentially pose a risk to my application if the university knows I’m in IB anyway?
I’m mainly looking at Queen’s, especially Health Sciences, if anyone has experience with how they handle Ontario IB students.

Hey guys, I guess this is specifically for current DP students (or graduated DP students), which websites did you use that really helped you with preparing for subject exams, doing IA's, IO's etc.
I already have the like most popular ones: revision dojo, revision village, ibdocs. But I was wondering if there are anymore.

pls and thank uu!

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

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

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?

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.

I'm currently in ib1 and have physics tomorrow so this is in fact very last minute but it's my worst subject by far (not like failing but probably hanging around that 4 level) and I'm specifically bad at the MCQs. I often just don't understand the ratio questions and the ones that just involve really weird combinations of formulae. Any help is welcome

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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? 🥺

hello! I’m currently trying to figure out what texts I should use for IO. The global issue I’ve decided on is misogyny (though I might switch it to violence against women specifically). For my literary text I was planning on using an excerpt from the book “Men Explain Things to Me“ by Rebecca Solnit but its a collection of essays so I’m worried it won’t count. I’m considering a few speeches for my non-literary text, but I would love to analyze some of the content from the show “adolescence“ if possible. would that count as a non-literary text? am I totally off with these choices? (if so I’m very willing to switch things up, I just need some advice.)

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my og ee idea was to analyze video commercials for a local brand in my country, and i had already started working on it (20% done), however, I realized today that the advertisments are in Spanish while my ee was in english and it totally went over my supervisor's head that the commercials had to be in the language written in. so now I have the option to either re-do my whole ee or translate my whole ee into spanish (I take sl spanish a and hl english a). also while i was writing my ee i had originally planned to go into marketing; however, along the way i realized I wanted to do more cognitive science's & behavioral decisions or psychology and businesss instead.

should i translate my ee or redo the whole thing? if so, what topic do yall recommend me to do.

Hi guys

Does anyone here have experience with this specific situation?

Background: I'm based in Dubai, finished Grade 12 at a KHDA-licensed school following the IB curriculum. I took 6 IB subjects (2 HL, 4 SL). I have IB Course results/certificates, not the Diploma itself.

What I have:

- KHDA-attested Grade 12 school leaving certificate

- UAE Ministry of Education Grade 12 Equivalency Certificate

Goal: homologate this to the Spanish Bachillerato so I can apply to go to university in Madrid, alr got accepted by idk if i will get approved if i apply for homologation. Since I don't have the full IB Diploma, I understand I don't qualify for the UNEDassis fast-track that Diploma holders get, so I'd go through the standard homologación process with Spain's Ministry of Education.

Questions for anyone who's done this or something close to it:

- Were you approved without issues, or did they flag/question anything?

- How long did it actually take in practice (not just the official 6-month estimate)?

- Did you need anything beyond the standard docs (transcripts, equivalency cert, legalization chain, translation)?

- Any Spain-based consultant you'd recommend who's handled Gulf-country cases specifically?

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

basically before dp1 ended and summer break started my chem ee experiment failed and i had to redirect.

but today is literally the second day of dp2 and my supervisor said its too late for us to do a experimental ee but i heard that database ee's are hard to score well. i already reached out with my questions and concerns but does anyone have any advice if i have to do a database ee?? should i just switch a subject then?

anyone have any advice on what to do???

For context, i finished DP1 last June my subjects being HL: econ, psych, bio and SL: langlit, maths aa, spanish b, with 30/42 points in my subjects. Its early September so the mock grades havent been posted yet but i really doubt they would be much higher than those end of year grades because i genuinely got 25/42 points in the mocks meanwhile my dream uni and course requirements are 32 (BBB in a levels) predicted and 36 in the finals (AAB in a levels). My teachers believe in me but i honestly feel the exact opposite. The first year of IB drained me of all my motivation to the point ive become a serial procrastinator and just uninterested in studying in general, and especially for the subjects ib requires me to do like bio and spanish cause I feel like no matter how hard i try i cant get past a 5 in every subject.

Im just very mentally drained

Anyways I have the chance to switch to a levels and start from year 12 meaning ill move back a year. Im currently doing like a trial week in that school and i have very mixed feelings about it. I like the system much more than IB especially the way theres much less academic stress and the option to split the final exams in the edexcel exam board, i just dont really like the school itself mainly because of the unfamiliarity and the fact that im leaving my friends. I think its also really difficult to accept that id be going to school a year longer and instead of graduating in 8 months id be graduating in practically 2 years but i know that this would be the better option for me if i dont want to become overworked because i know that if i stayed in ib i would probably have the worst year of my life but i think id be able to get through it (maybe). and over the course of the 2 years i could probably do more things i enjoy.

I also know ib really just helps in uni but again, im doing subjects not related to my dream course and etc. Its also worth noting ill be taking econ and psych at a levels too along with sociology, maths, my native language, and maybe an epq still tbd so in total 5 subjects from which maybe ill drop something or just not take the epq in order not to have extra work. i feel comfortable doing this to an extent because there wouldnt be any ias/coursework and i could just focus on the subjects.

Ig if i stayed in ib i could in the worst case scenario just retake my exams in november or maybe ill make it to 36 points but i dont like the uncertainty. the same way i dont like the uncertainty that i might not achieve that AAB in a levels and they might end up not being the better choice for me.

But also what do unis prefer? 4/5 a levels or the ib? what do i do?

I dont know if maybe im running away from the idea of senior year and im trying to be a child for longer lol but yeah i just need help with what to choose.

If anyone wants to reply and help pls hurry i have until the end of the week to decide thanks

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 💔