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So 24 hours has passed.. (over 24 hours actually) but how did you guys find it? I thought it was ok.. I picked the poem but I don't think I did too well on it..
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Hello World! So more than 24 hours have passed since all of the IB english paper 1's have taken place. How did all of you do, and how were the papers in each of the Time Zones? I am in TZ2 and chose the poem !
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Now that more than 24 hours have passed, we can discuss the paper 3 for Biology. Personally, the section A was a disaster. I did option A: Neurobiology and found some of the questions in section B to be confusing. Especially, the last question in section B was "Explain nervous system that are used for you to read and respond to this question" and I was like . I basically wrote BS about all I know about nervous system like visual cortex and retina are used to read the questions and motor cortex is used to control muscles in my hands to write down my answer. Question: What was I supposed to write for question 2 (c) that asked "explain the pattern of…
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Since it has been 24 hours, how did you HL Lit students do?? I chose question 8 (i think) under the prose fiction section that talked about how characters often are trying to escape something or someone. I personally thought it was pretty easy, I easily wrote 5 and half pages. How did everyone else do?
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Now It's time when Econ paper one can be discussed! How did you guys do? My whole school found it very complicated, so we are hoping for low grade boundaries LOL
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How did you guys find it? My Paper 2 (novel) questions were very easy.
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How did everyone find them? I thought paper 3 was fairly easy except for the fractal diagram which I messed up. And the questions on the option we did in my school were the usual so there wasn't anything unexpected.
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Hi, so I just finished all my biology papers. I do have a question, how do they mark my answers? If I was asked to list one answer, yet I mentioned two, and one of them is correct, do I get the point? Also, one of the question was to suggest two reasons, and I probably mentioned 3-4 just in case. Will they still accept my answer? Thanks.
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Hey guys! How did you find it? What questions did you do? I did 1 and 4 and i think they were pretty easy!
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Hi, I've recently finished my Biology paper 2 and I realized that I made a mistake writing the number of questions I had answered on the blue cover sheet. In an effort to correct this, I drew a line over all the wrong answers in the boxes provided, so I ended up running out of boxes. I tried to write all my answer in the single box left, but I had to finish writing it outside of the box. My question is, will my examiner grade my paper even though it is difficult to understand what questions I answered? ((I've read in past threats that I the examiners get errors and because the understand it was an human error and they still grade the …
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Hey guys! Pretty sure that by now we can discuss things related to the economics exam. So for Paper 1 I did questions one and three; I actually messed up the diagram for subsidies in question one, for both part a and b. I am pretty confident about my answers for the macroeconomics question, but I guess I needed more time for a more refined answer. What do you guys think? Was it hard or pretty straightforward overall? P.S. I kinda forgot my time zone. So perhaps you guys in different times zones might have different sets of questions!
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So I've been listening to a lot of podcasts whilst studying lately but they're all film related. Would like to prevent myself from getting distracted from too much entertainment. Anyone know of podcasts that cover topics in IB History and Physics? Would love to download ones that actually cover the syllabus. Feel free to suggest podcasts for other subjects btw! Might be helpful.
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This is the Discussion Timetable NOT the exam schedule. Exam schedule can be found here. All the discussion about the exams has to be in the EXAM DISCUSSION forum, not in the subject forums. It is EXTREMELY important that you do not post those topics in any other forum as it will not be possible for us to properly moderate them. Thank you. Morning exams are discussed after 13.00 (GMT time) Afternoon exams are discussed after 18.00 (GMT time) Tuesday 3 May Morning English A Literature HL paper 1 English A Literature SL paper 1 English A Language & Literature HL paper 1 English A Language & Literature SL paper 1 En…
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I'm taking French 5 next year but it's only offered at the honors level. I still need to take the test as well. What do I do?
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Bonjour mes potes! How was it for y'all? I thought it was pretty nice, and my cohort agreed. However, we were not consistent with our responses for the word substitution question...
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Just wondering how long I have to apply for remarks in my exams, I only just gained access to my detailed results, and was worried that I'd missed the deadline. Also, how do we access the component results, that tell you what you were graded for each individual paper? Thanks
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Hey guys, thought I might start a thread for the HL physics papers. How did you find them? I personally didn't find them too bad, but there were a couple of challenging questions in paper 1 particularly. Which questions in Section B in Paper 2 did you do? Hope it went well for everyone!
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Any thoughts? I expected paper 1 to be easier. Texto B was so horrible - well, more the questions than the text itself, but still.
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It's been way more than 24 hours now, so I thought I would make a discussion for maths HL. How did you guys find paper 1, paper 2 and paper 3 for maths HL for the november 2015 session? I am sitting the November 2016 exams but my maths teacher gave me a copy of the November 2015 Maths HL exams just to have a look, and I found the questions quite do able. Just to let you guys know I spoke to some students who sat the November 2015 session and they said that they found the exams easier than some past papers!! Hope you guys found them the same?
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So, how was the Chemistry paper. I was in TZ2 I think, and the paper 1 was quite hard to be honest
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Hello to the handful (a really small handful) of people who take anthro! So how did you guys find the papers? I take HL and I was surprised by how much more 'simplified' the questions for paper 2 and 3 were as compared to the questions from the previous years. Overall I think the papers went quite well for me, although I couldn't finish paper 1 on time
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Hey everyone - I decided to make a thread for everyone who did the geography exams. It's been waayy more than 24 hours, so I was wondering how you guys felt about papers 1, 2, and 3? Paper 1 was great - and I found the section B questions interesting! I did the one with fertility rates and resource consumption. Which options did you do for paper 2? I did hazards and disasters, food and health, and urban environments. I loved the questions, and I felt happy about paper 2! I also did paper 3, and I did question 3 and found it really interesting to do - I talked for ages about loss of sovereignty for the first part because I was really engaged with that section of the …
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It's been 24 hours! How did we all find it? Personally I thought it was reasonable, with some pretty unusual questions in both papers. Wasn't sure about a couple in MC but luckily I guessed right! And paper 2 - I mean structure of ozone???? My teacher says that's HL material, thanks a lot IBO. Fluked that one right too though thank god.
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Anyone up for Nov 15 HL/SL Psych Discussion? P1 - PB1 - CGLO4 - SCGLO2 - PB4 - CGLO3 - CN2 P2 Abn - GF1/2, CD2 Health - GF2, S3 (?) and I can't remember the others... I did options Abn and Health and for paper 1 I did CGLO3 on Lab Experiments. How did everyone go?
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What did you all think of the paper? I thought it was noticeably harder than average. Seemed to me like the texts were relatively straightforward, but the questions themselves were quite complicated.
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Hey all! I need some of your wisdom! without discussing the math studies paper, I did quite badly today as I had a chest infection and made very silly mistakes however is it possible to still get a decent mark by doing well on my paper 2? My IA was less than decent too, but passable!
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Hello All! I hope exams are going well! Just wanted to open a topic about the German B exam (if anyone indeed takes this language!) How did everyone find the papers? I believe not all language B exams have been sat,so please refer to the exam discussion schedule to make sure your exam is allowed to be discussed!
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How did everyone find the Physics core papers? (At the time of writing, the 24-hour rule still applies to Paper 3, so please don't discuss it here.) I thought while taking the exam that Paper 1 was harder than average - it took me the whole hour to tackle. There seemed to be a lot of strange questions too, and a lot more stuff on waves. I found Paper 2 pretty straightforward in comparison - everything seemed very similar to past questions. I did questions 7 and 8 in Section B - how were 6 and 9?
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Exam discussion
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How did everyone find the Lit HL exams? Poetry or prose? Was paper 2 to your liking? Personally I loveeed the prose (teen angst and romanticism really speaks to me on a spiritual level) so I wrote about that but it was a departure from my usual safe "tried and true" method - usually I write 3 body paragraphs grouped thematically, this time I went chronologically and wrote eight pages :/ so yeah I'm a little bit nervous about how I went there. I did NOT like the Paper 2 drama topics!! They all felt quite general/vague and didn't really lend themselves to detailed thematic analysis, which sucks because I was dying to talk about the duality of sex and death in A Streetca…
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It doesn't seem as though anyone's started a discussion, so I thought i might as well. How did everyone go for English Paper 1 (literature)? I did the prose, but personally I found it quite challenging given the little time we had. I also heard the poem was quite difficult. How did everyone go?
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Hi everyone, just wanted your opinions on the paper one and paper two!
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Making one thread for this because we had the same set of questions, just with different marking criteria and examination timing. Obviously this is a paper that differed greatly between the categories of works studied - but what did you all think for your respective sections? I did poetry, and personally thought the paper couldn't have gone better because of the question I got (#6, the one on tonal shifts). However, I thought it did a pretty poor job of making sure everyone had a question they could tackle at an optimal level. Lots of poetry is pretty consistent in tone, and having four poems studied that exhibit this at a level suitable for a Paper 2 is probably pret…
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This is a discussion schedule, not exam schedule. All the discussion about the exams has to be in the EXAM DISCUSSION forum, not in the subject forums. It is EXTREMELY important that you do not post those topics in any other forum as it will not be possible for us to properly moderate them. Thank you. Morning exams are discussed after 13.00 (GMT time) Afternoon exams are discussed after 18.00 (GMT time) Wednesday, 4th of November Morning English A Literature HL paper 1 English A Literature SL paper 1 English A Language & Literature HL paper 1 English A Language & Literature SL paper 1 English B HL Paper 1 English B SL Paper 1 English ab initio SL pape…
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Does anyone has the most recent 2015 may chemistry HL paper 1 and 2 (both TZ1 and TZ2)? Can I have the paper for revision?
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so i can only find the may 2014 exam boundaries, anyone know where i can find the november ones and are they similar to may 2014?
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Hey guys, so.. how'd you find it? (I did TZ2 btw)
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I received my results today and am considering a retake in 1 or 2 subjects to raise my grade. I live in Sweden and have some idea that the deadline for the registration is at the end of this month. Can anyone provide some information about the retakes in November in Scandinavia: How can I know which school offers exam retakes? Are they available (for me to contact them) during summer?
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How is everyone feeling about it? I did an essay on Stalin rise to power, foreign involvement in the Spanish civil war, and the one on the creation of FRG. I think it was okay-ish. Thoughts?
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To all the students in the 2014-2016 batch for the IB. We had a Predicted Grade examination 3 weeks ago and it went quite okay, except for few subjects like Math and Physics. I wanted to know how did the students in dubai and abroad felt of the examination and how was the portions for the exams? This is the May 2015 predicted Grades examinations........
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This is a discussion schedule, not exam schedule. All the discussion about the exams has to be in the EXAM DISCUSSION forum, not in the subject forums. It is EXTREMELY important that you do not post those topics in any other forum as it will not be possible for us to properly moderate them. Thank you. Morning exams are discussed after 13.00 (GMT time) Afternoon exams are discussed after 18.00 (GMT time) Tuesday, 5th of May Morning English A Literature HL paper 1 English A Literature SL paper 1 English A Language & Literature HL paper 1 English A Language & Literature SL paper 1 English B HL Paper 1 English B SL Paper 1 English ab initio SL paper 1 Lit…
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Anyone else take this exam yesterday? Maybe it was just me, but I thought this was harder than the May 2014 paper.
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What were your thoughts about the exam?
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I am pretty sure we can now discuss paper 2! SO guys, TZ 1 and TZ 2, what did you guys think? How did it go for y'all?
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What are your thoughts? I am in TZ2. I was super happy with questions in paper 2. I did: Developmental = Environmental and/or sociocultural factors influencing cognitive development (poverty) I talked about Paul KrugmanLevitsky and BarnesPollitSchoonWerner and SmithMani et al.Abnormal = One or more cultural considerations in diagnosis Zhang et al.WattersMatsumiI talked about somatisation and stuffLe RepacFernandoBoltonAnd paper 3 was okay. Depends how they mark it :3 But I'm really happy and I'm hoping for a 7.
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Hi! Thought it'd be interesting to discuss both P1 and P2 in Swedish A. I'm doing Swe A HL Lang & Lit. What texts did you choose for analyzing in P1 and what are your general thoughts? I chose the two last texts, the one about emigration from Sweden to the US and the chronicle about moving out when you're young. There was sooo much to say about the first text and almost no stylistic devices or such in the second one which made it really unbalanced for me. For P2 I question number six, which was something like "Texters betydelse pÃ¥verkas bÃ¥de av det sammanhang de skrev i och det de läses i", and I used "Dvärgen" and "Ett dockhem" in the discussion. That questi…
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Hi, What do you think about HL Computer Science papers this year. I think that the papers where easier then the previous year. In my opinion paper 1 was the hardest, whereas paper 3 was the easiest. What do you think, how where the exams?
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Hi! So... what do you think of it? In my opinion the first three questions were simple. There was only a small confusion in the last part of the third question. After doing the manual computation I obtained 81%, but when I tested the value on my calc it appeared that 80% fits the boundaries better. I wasn't sure which one I should use, so I wrote 80% as the answer. The fourth one was a bit challenging due to the lack of complete understanding of what an estimator is I computed a to be 1/2 and b to be 1/4 (the best value). Where it asked to propose a better estimator I wrote (X1+X2+X3)/3, which has a slightly smaller variance than the one given. I'm not sure …
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So how are we feeling? Personally, I thought the questions were kind of boring. Ended up doing one on compliance techniques in section B, which I didn't feel there was much to evaluate on... Should have taken ethical considerations, but found it such a dull question!
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