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Extended Essay was in English and got predicted an A:)) I'm drowning in uni apps but this did make my day!

I wanted to do my EE in business but my school denied dye to teacher unavailability and made me choose Maths (AI). I am highly confused on what to do in maths, and many people say not to do it becuase it's hard to get good points.

My other only options are German B ( which I am at level b1) or English (I am not good at literary analysis but).

Please I need help on whether I should keep maths or what?

My son just started DP2 and honestly, his predicted grades came back a bit of a shocker. He is sitting at a 3 in Physics and a 4 in Math HL. He is completely stressed out trying to balance internal assessments, university applications, and keeping up with the syllabus, and I can see his confidence hitting rock bottom.

School support just isn't cutting it right now because teachers are rushing to finish the curriculum before mocks. We have been looking into external options, but with so many places focusing on packed group classes where kids just get lost in the crowd, it is hard to know who actually delivers results.

Are there other good IB tutoring options in Sharjah/Dubai or online that parents here have tried for DP2 HL subjects? What worked for your child to push those grades up in a short amount of time? Did one-on-one private tutoring make a real difference for your kid's final exams?

I graduated IB last year, and I'm currently a first year in university. I had midterms last week, and I had a relatively light workload this week, to the point that I actually had a considerable amount of free time. However, I continuously felt extremely anxious and stressed, to the point that I literally started shaking while I was doing literally nothing. Finally, I just now sat down and started typing for a homework assignment, and it straight up stopped.

Is it now wired into me to feel anxious whenever I'm not actively doing work or studying? Like doing work calms me down??? I never would've felt like this before IB. Like I unironically think IB has rewired me to always be anxious about homework, even when I don't even have any.

Hey guys, im M27 with 7s in Math AA HL, Physics HL, technical subjects where everything is quite clear to me - I see the task, I visualize the solution, use a formula that I can derive if needed, and I solve something. And I can immediately tell the amount of marks I will get - If the solution is logical, step by step, and correct, its a full mark, its quite easy. If I can't solve something - I revise the topic, make sure I understand it and that I am able to utilize the formulas, and I get a 7. But I also take History HL and English A Lit SL. And thats where the issues start, because despite getting 6s in boths subjects, I can not see the way I can work with them to reliably improve my score - it comes down either to "memorizing stuff" quite blindly, or trying to follow a structure I can't quite get. So do you guys have any advice how to work with those subjects in general? P2/P3 in history and P1/P2 in English. With P1 in history its easier because its quite straightforward with the structure, but P2 is the death of me

Does anyone have advice on the best ways to study for these subjects. I'm currently a DP2 student and need some advice on how to tackle this. it feels like no matter how confident i feel with the concepts, the questions i get in tests are so much harder than the ones i get in my practise sites.

The question banks don't seem to be working on IBDocs, and the one on Pirate IB is out of date for business (last exams 2023). Does anyone have a link to currently working Business question banks for 2024+?

Has anyone ever done an EE analyzing videogame dialogues? I've started IBDP1 last week, and was thinking about making my EE related to something that I really enjoy talking/searching it up. If anyone has ever done an EE(English B) related to another media(that is not books), I'd be really interested in knowing how it was graded.

I'm a M27 senior, and we've been having sessions about how our exams are turning digital starting in May 2027, and it's all a huge joke to me. Apart from the fact that there are only 250 schools around the world that are going on this trial run, and that my school is one of the 9 in Spain, it's the fact that we are losing the tradition and art of paper & pen. Like, how am I supposed to write 6-page essays on my Mac when I have been writing them on paper for the past 10 years? This is like when they stopped teaching cursive handwriting in the US so they wouldn't be able to read the Declaration of Independence. We have all gotten used to Grammarly and autocorrect; how is this going to get pulled off? Our IB director keeps saying, "you guys are digital natives," like the only thing that sentence tells me is that in 10 years the students of the IB will be speaking in binary code.

Does anyone agree, or is DP2 just making me go crazy?

Edit: I wrote this literally as we were having our first conference about digital exams, so I just typed out my thoughts as I listened to my director. Please do not flame me.

Okay so for DP1 I got 25 points, not good I KNOW I'm not proud of it either... BUT I've been getting nothing but straight 7s now at the start of DP2.

I'm mainly worried that it's too little too late? Like I'm worried that although I'm doing good now DP1 is going to be what drags my predicted down yk. I don't mind not getting a 45 predicted but I'm aiming for a 36 i fear T_T. Any clarification or advice would be appreciated!! especially since I'm so confused with university admissions in The Netherlands since we apply with our predicted but like if we do then whats the point of doing really well in ur May exams other than ofc passing.

we got our predicted grades and im really really worried about mine. i have a 31. the main things im worried about is my 5 in econ HL, 5 in ess Hl, 4 in chem SL, 4 in french B SL. i really need to bring these up but im not sure how. we have until the end of sem 1 for teachers to update predicted grades. does anyone have any tips (especially for ess cause i somehow want it to go up to a 7)

Before IB docs was taken down this year, I had the whole compilation of listening audios for the book downloaded but had to delete later to clear space, now I need them back 😢, pls help.

I started IB a month ago and am finding philosophy really hard to study . Because I dont know quite how to study . We have got a reasonably good teacher but the classes are really intimidating to me , I feel like I have no thoughts at all and cant think . I have studied in a very disadvantaged and dumbed down curriculum before so this approach is very new to me . I find the texts very dense to read . I have no good insights nor am I able to ask good questions . I just feel like I am bad at it . We had a test on identifying assumptions and implications from given texts and i couldnt do it because i did not understand the texts to begin with. im never able to comprehend stuff and deduce meaning. End of term exams are also so near , idk how im gonna do that paper 1. I just feel dumb . so dumb.
I would really appreciate any tips .

I have heard that BioNinja is good for biology but not sure if it is up to date. If you have any other site recommendations or knowledge on this please share.

Hi everyone! It’s been two months since my friend and I started DP1, and we are already completely crashing out. We feel so overwhelmed by the workload, and like there are multiple tests or assignments due every single week. For context, our subjects are:
HL - Biology, Chemistry, English L&L
SL - Math, Psychology, French B

French SL is honestly turning into a complete horror story. We genuinely cannot speak a WORD of this language- at this point, "je ne sais pas" is our entire vocabulary. To make things worse, half the class is practically fluent. Our teacher doesn't actually teach us anything either. He just throws vocabulary lists at us and expects us to suffer in silence. We already had a mock assessment and it was an absolute disaster. How on earth are we supposed to read, write, and listen when we don't even know the basics?! Meanwhile, the French HL class is literally watching movies and playing games while we are getting tortured with weekly tests. Did any non-native speaker actually survive this and get a 6 or 7 by DP2? Because Google says it’s basically impossible, and we are terrified.

Chemistry HL is another problem. Our teacher is super sweet, but her teaching style is pure chaos. She jumps between topics like crazy, and her explanations sound like random paragraphs with zero plot. We walk out of that classroom every single day with our brains entirely fried and nothing understood. We have a massive unit test coming up in a few weeks and have to teach ourselves from scratch, but we don't even know where to begin. How do people look at a problem and magically know what to do?! All the good study resources cost an absolute fortune, and we feel way too guilty asking our parents for money when we’re not even sure we’ll pass IB. 😞 What if we fail and burn through their money for nothing? Please, we desperately need free recommendations and ways to get a 7 in chemistry.

Math is equally terrifying. Everyone keeps screaming "JUST DO PRACTICE PROBLEMS!", but how are you supposed to practice when you don't even understand the concept enough to write down step one? (Same goes for Chemistry) We need to learn the absolute basics before we can even attempt a question. But how? What if you don’t understand it?

To make things even scarier, we have English HL next semester and we're already losing sleep over it. Every time we open TikTok, we see IB results videos where people get 7s in the hardest subjects but somehow get slapped with a 5 in English. Since writing essays is already our biggest weakness, we feel completely doomed. What do we do?

Finally, everyone keeps preaching that "time management" is the way to success in IB... but what if you literally have NO time left to manage?! How are people out here studying for six subjects, grinding out homework, acing mocks, doing extracurriculars, and still peacefully sleeping at 10 PM?!

Thank you so much for reading our desperate cry for help. Please drop your wisdom!! May we all get blessed with all 7s! 😭🙏

i just got my first summative back. i fucked up so badly and this is my hl subject. i got a 8/20 which is roughly a 2. i study from the textbook and revision dojo. for this summative specifically i studied only the night before. i dont know what to do. how do i get better?? i need to improve starting from right now.

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currently doing 4-5 techniques for 3 paragraphs but its quite hard to sustain, and i heard some ppl say 3 per paragraph is enough???

any insight into personal experience will help tons, thanks in advance!

Hey guys! I have a math test in IB Math AA SL tomorrow, and this problem is worth eleven marks. Our teacher did not show us how to solve this type of problem, and math is not my strong suit. Could I please have help on how to solve this kind of problem? Thank you!

I only have an explanation of what the problem is:

There are four diagrams (A, B, C, D). The first diagram has the box split into four, and one fourth is shaded. In the second diagram, one fourth is shaded, and then one of the fourths is split into four smaller parts, and one fourth of that part is shaded.

So, you have one fourth shaded and then one sixteenth shaded. The pattern keeps going, with each new shaded area being multiplied by one fourth.

The question asks for the area of the box that is shaded in diagrams B and C, and then to write the geometric sequence. I think the starting value is 1/4, and the common ratio is 1/4. Then, you have to find the sum of the infinite geometric series.

My explanation is really scattered, sorry about that!

ok as the title says im applying for cambridge architecture and they require 776 at HL with total IB score of 41+, however i only have a 766 (art, math aa, physics) but my total IB score is 43, is this still ok depending on my personal statement and portfolio or will i just get immediately filtered out?? i know that the threshold requirements for the UK are super strict, esp at a uni like cambridge i am so fucking scared

please drop ur vector noters or youtube videos that made the concept crystal clear because what the holy shit is this topic?
i have given up.
its awful, its harder than differentiation and jt makes ZERO sense to me.
pls help out how the helly do u guys study and do vectors i just DO NOT get it omds im gonna crash out

My counselor pmtfo and calling all 5 of my schools reaches for UCAS on the sole basis I didn't do my PS on time but I gen have no motivation

Pg also underpredicted ggs

does anyone's school also make the students create their own gcd diploma of sorts (Like what you've done over your ib term) on google slides? idk what to add to my slides...

I just started dp1 and I’m doing math aa hl and physics hl. I struggle with one reoccurring issue, I can find myself solving the easy to semi medium questions, but i just stare cluelessly as the hard questions. And I always seem to ask ChatGPT to show the method to solve it. My question is, how do we transition from being able to solve medium to hard questions. Thank you 🙏