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If you are a native German speaker (preferably one that is May or November 2018), could you please message me to indicate interest in being a penpal, before the Language B exams. Danke.
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I was wondering if I could "recycle" an IA research question, but make my own investigation. Is it permitted? Should "Company X" change its motivation techniques to increase the productivity of their staff? That was the question I found online, and I wanted to use it, but of course, filling it with the company I´m investigating.
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Do IA's get marked more harshly if the subject you're doing it for is HL instead of SL, or is it all the same marking scheme?
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sooo, have a question concerning IB retakes, what happens if you don't show up? does it affect anything? like does it ruin the diploma that you might already have?..
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Guys, I was thinking of doing my extended essay on Wuthering Heights but so many people did it and it seems extremely unoriginal. How can I twist it around to make it stand out? I was thinking of maybe analysing why Heathcliff has an endouring appeal that still applies nowadays even though he is a terrible person. Why do we still love him? Something like that idk. pleaseeee help me I'm freaking out
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Hey there. Im confused whether I should take Physics SL or ESS SL at IB. I know Physics would be the obvious choice for the harder subject, but in terms of scoring which is easy to score. Is Physics SL very Math based as Math definitely is not my forte, and is ESS theoretical or application based subject. I definitely want to know which is better in terms of scoring and also is ESS biology based.
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Hey Guys iam confused if there is a considerable difference in the difficulty of exams between English A literature HL and SL? I really have to ensure that English HL is not too complicated and hard to score.
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Hi so basically, I copied a definition from the dictionary. I cited it but forgot to place it in quotation marks. Will they count this as plagiarism?
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Hi everyone! I want my IA to be based around the exponential number "e" and natural logarithms and want to collect my own data/do the experiment. Sadly, I am having some trouble thinking of a creative experiment to base my IA around. My teacher said not to do anything with temperature as that has been overly done. Can anyone please give me some inspiration? Anything Helps and is greatly appreciated!
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If you get a grade E in the extended essay, will you not get the IB diploma?
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I do English A language and literature HL and i am flunking bad.. i am really considering dropping it for English B HL. will it affect my chances of attending a good university? please help!!!! i'm dying right now. my current subjects are: English A HL L&L (2) French B HL (6) Economics HL (7) Bio SL (5) Psychology SL (6) Math SL(4)
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Hi everyone I'm new here and in the IB programme itself, never heard about it before starting it. I have learned a lot about the IB DP from various sources (this website being one of them), but there's still one thing I don't understand - The IB DP subject syllabus. I don't know where to find it? How does it work, is there one fixed syllabus or does it change? How do I know which one is the most recent one? I would really appreciate anyone's help on this matter, since it's the only thing I wasn't able to fully understand... Thank you in advance! If it does any help: I'm a year 1 student and my subjects are: English lit. A (SL) Spanish as a…
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Over the past few weeks, it has been extremely difficult for me to manage my coursework, resulting in my grades in certain classes faltering to undesirable levels. Now, it's not a case of coursework being too difficult or even too numerous; I am willing to do it all. Where I believe my real issue is is with distractions, although my somewhat slow work pace may also factor in. In terms of distractions, I could easily put all of the blame on YouTube, but the truth is that I seem to be gifted at finding the most obscure things to search or easily spend several minutes looking into before returning to my assignments... before doing it again for who knows how long. By th…
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I have an interesting idea what could help you guys in your CAS projects as well. I have a CAS project on discord server, youtube channel and now a website. In short, my CAS project has QOTD, video series, and talks about the news. I just made the website and this is where I think it could be used for your CAS within my CAS project. In short, I want the website to have articles over philosophy and the news. For the news, it would cover all the sides of the story not just your perspective. For CAS there is the creative part of it so my thinking was you guys and girls could make stories over what you see happening in the world and I would post them to my website CAS project…
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I'm confused about CAS and what does/doesn't count as hours. Here are my ideas so far, could they count if I just did them on my own whenever I wanted? I don't really like being a part of scheduled groups or clubs. Creativity- drawing, photography Action- surfing, running Service- cleaning up trash at beaches, helping out my surf instructor with lessons
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Hi everyone, so I am having trouble finding a good IB Sl Math IA topic. I want to do something regarding the cooling/increase of temperature of something. But, I don't know what that 'something' could be. Can anyone give me some creative ideas regarding cooling or increase of temperature? Anything Helps!
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Hi everyone, so I am having trouble finding a good IB Sl Math IA topic. I want to do something regarding the cooling/increase of temperature of something. But, I don't know what that 'something' could be. Can anyone give me some creative ideas regarding cooling or increase of temperature? Anything Helps!
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Spanish listening has just been added to the IB syllabus this year. There are no past papers so how should I practice for it.
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I'm in grade 8, and I'm trying to get into Pre IB. The exam is just around corners, and I'm wondering if anyone who has passed the exam has any tips on how, and what do prepare to study for success?
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I'm doing my 11th grade right now and I've changed syllabus from a national syllabus to the IB. I'm clueless about the expectations, nature of IB and almost everything regarding it. My current school that I've moved into, by itself is new and not very experienced, hence lack in providing the students with clear guidance. The performance of the previous 3 batches was not satisfactory as well. The students in the school are not very willing to provide me with apt guidance as they are very busy themselves. I understand that it is a lot to ask for but I'd be very, very, VERY grateful if someone who's well informed about the IBDP could guide me about it A-Z. I've always been a…
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I need to get data on a survey from different people around the world/country on automobile use for my ESS IA. Does anyone know where I can publish this survey to people, preferably people of the IB community? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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okay so this is my first year of IB and I'm trying to make choices of the subjects for college, I want to be a dentist. and I'm interested in Germany, or Canada, not in a high collages standard ones. and I wanted to ask if I can take Math studies whos lower than math SL? and if my subjects are good? now I'm taking : Arabic HL English b HL global politics HL Spanish ab SL Math SL Biology SL
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Hello everyone, for the French B written assignment I'm a little bit confused and have got two questions. If we choose a letter does it have to be from our "own" perspective, or can it be from the perspective of a fictional student living in France? Also, does reducing the voting age to 16 come under the umbrella of global issues, it feels like it should...? If anyone could help me out on either of these questions that would be fantastic!
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hello everyone, I am currently trying to find a topic to do my summative TOK oral on and i am stuck! I wanted to base it around the concept of beauty and maybe how beauty is changing with the help of technology or something like that! However I feel like these topics are too generic and I wanted to get some advice on some interesting topics from some other people who have completed the IB? Thanks!!
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Hi! I have to do an IOP on Frankenstein or Merchant of Venice. If you are familiar with these books I could really use some suggestions on a topic or ideas on how to go about choosing a good topic that I can develop thoughtful ideas on. Thank you!
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Hey I just need some research similar to mine to present my Group 4 information. Let me know if you can email me the results from your Group 4 Biology project!
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Guys so currently i am in ibyr2 and one of my subjects is ITGS (quite obvious) . I hear a lot of students saying that the subject is easy, infact i dont find it quite nerve-wracking. I dont really get the knack of learning it the IB way tho, i dont really score well in the subject. Y'all have any tips/suggestions?
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I have been working on this video for a long time. The video is over Mental Health/ Illness. I will be doing a series of videos going more in-depth to certain mental illness in the near future. I believe it's an extremely important topic what needs to be heard more often. We need to break through the fear of talking about Mental illness. It starts with gaining knowledge over mental illness, and that's what I hope to help with my video series. Would appreciate if you guys give it a listen and a Like as it will look better at the end of this school year and give me more motivation to make more.
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Hi, Do anyone knows is there any specific format for Bio EE? (Like font size, line spacing, etc.)
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Hello I'm a math person and I'm in Physics HL course as a Junior IB student. Last week, we had a second unit test and I got an extremely bad grade which is 2. (I got 6 for the 1st unit test) I thought I did it well but there were a lot of misunderstandings. It was bad in particular and there is no explanation for this grade. It was just bad, didn't study enough. From this depression and confusion, I couldn't focus on my Math SL study and I think I did really bad for it even I got 6 for the first Math unit test. I couldn't focus on the test. In fact, I didn't understand some question and I found some mistakes during chatting with my friend about how hard was the test.…
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Hey everyone, Hope you're doing well whether you just started your IB or are already getting closer to your mock exams. I'm trying to find out about how students study and what resources they use. It would be great if you guys could fill out this survey. Shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. Its all anonymous. https://goo.gl/forms/avRQe0DEHksywyWi1 Thanks
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So, I loved theory of knowledge so much in high school that I want to take a class similar to this in college? Or perhaps even a major similar to TOK? Any suggestions? I have Philosophy and Religion down on my list, but I don't know how in depth or similar they'll be compared to TOK.
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Hello everyone, I need Math HL IA ideas, which are not overused! thanks in advance!
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Hello guys, as a topic in Math IA, I chose to explore mathematics behind voting systems. According to my research from various papers, its closely related to probability/statistics, but nothing else. If I won't have Calculus and stuff like logarithm in my IA, does it mean it is a weak IA? If anyone has Math sources on voting, please help me out. Thank you in advance
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i started IB a month ago i am taking economics as my group 3 subject until now the subject is fine but i don't think that i am going to do well and im not really enjoining the subject so i was thinking to change to world religions but im not sure. is world religions easier? can i get higher marks in world religions? im not that good at writing or discussing so which one should i take??? edit: i think the world religions class is full and i wont be able to attend it, still not sure but if i cant i am thinking of psychology but im not sure
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So I'm currently in 11th grade rn. Its only been the 2nd term for DP and I'm doing so bad in all my subjects. HLs Psych (we haven't really done anything) English A : 11/20 for my first written task History : 5/15 for this essay practice test SLs Math Studies : 18/56 (Am I that stupid... math has always been my weakest subject despite studies being really easy.) French Abinitio (we haven't really done anything) Biology : 3/9 for the test, 13/24 for my first practice IA What is wrong with me? I did so much better in the MYP and all of a sudden I'm failing everything in the DP. I'm afraid I'm not gonna do well within the next tw…
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Says it all up there ^
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Hey everyone! I need just few people to answer quickly on survey I made about perjudicies and stereotypes and I'd be more tan happy to get few responses. It ha quite many questions and it should take approximately 10-15 minutes, sorry for that already. Hopefully some of you could have time to complete this! Peace, love and strength for everyone struggling, its tough. 😊 Link to the survey: https://goo.gl/forms/N4y4DtvGl6JYd5Dn2 (only the first name and age is needed and the names will not be published!)
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Anyone have any ideas on how to create a personal engagement for my Chem IA on catalysts? I have a few but not sure if they are credible enough...
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Its a very long story, and I'm sure this website isn't mean for this, but I need to know if there is any way I can drop into CP. I'm about 2 months into my senior year and I was told by my counselor that it was too late. I need any help I can get. Im not looking for sympathy or support, just help with what I asked. Thank you if anyone can help.
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Hello fellow IB friends! Currently I am taking hl chem, sl french, sl bio and sl math. However, I am having trouble completing all of my homework and at times, I don't understand a concept and have to put it away until a week or so just because I don't have time. I don't know how to handle these particular subjects and balancing the homework especially from sl math and hl chem. As such, I am really behind in HL chem, because I was trying to catch up in math (which I'm still behind in as of now ._.) Are there any general tips for me in terms of handling these particular subjects? Whats the real truth behind it; is it really possible to finish EVERYTHING thats ass…
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I plan to major in PPE (Philosophy, Politics, Economics) where my science subject doesn't really matter, and since I plan to take Math and History at HL (from what I've read, I believe these subjects are the hardest), which SL group 4 (science) subject will be the easiest and have the least amount of workload? Thanks! Group 4 subjects my school offers: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science
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I am having a problem with memorizing the "plant phyla recognition features" does anyone have an easy way to memorize them? thank you
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I have noticed that it is really hard to maintain an healthy social life and IB grades high, most of the people undergoing the second year of IB that have impressive scores do not go out and the only company they have good are our dear books. Now do you find impossible to have a social life and good IB scores? Would you give up one of them? In my opinion is useless to get a 45 & at the same time have "wasted" what can be considered the best years of our lives.. Lately i am indeed, struggling between school, boyfriend and friends, however i can confess i am a proud(? maybe not that much) 5iver/6er and i will never give up my happy party life for the IB (yes i am a ho…
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SOoooo I being open here is the IB always this hard. I'm a year 1 and I'm 2 months into school. So far I am doing terrible in all of my classes except Mandarin SL. Can anyone else relate to the first few months being rough annnnnnndddd how do I get out of this bad grade slump because I've NEVER gotten the kind of grades I'm getting right now, like ever, in my life. It gets better right? Because if yes, how did ya'll do it??
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Are you supposed to actually get notes and learn stuff about the points on the right side of the syllabus table for each topic in your subjects? Like can you be tested on these in an exam and are they worth looking into because so far I've just been completely ignoring them and so has my school. You'd think they would be worth spending time on if they are included but nobody ever talks about them. Should I pay attention to these and if so how should I go about utilizing them to get maximum benefit? Thanks :))
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Hi guys, PLEASE help me out, I've been struggling with this for the last 1 week. I'm a math SL student who scores 7 in all her tests. But for some reason I'm finding it difficult to choose a nice topic!! I don't want the IA to drop my grade. Do you guys have any ideas on what I could do? Anything other than modelling works for me. I love calculus so that may be ideal. Don't tell me "do what you like" because I actually like everything and my brain has stopped functioning right now. My 1st draft is due in less than 12 hours so any help would be appreciated. Send IA samples, send topics, send help, anything will do :))))) Thanks a lot!!!
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So guys it’s been around 2 months since the IB has started and my school is really really bad. I have 2-3 good teachers but the rest are really bad. I have taken PHY, CHEM, and Maths as my HL which I know is a pretty deadly trio, but I want to do it. The problem here arises in MATHS mainly where new topics such as logs, polynomials and stuff wasn’t done in IGCSE so this is new to me in the IB and I need the teacher to teach me this. Also there are 2 people in the class to want to be competitive for some reason and are unwilling to help. The board they did(ICSE) is a board that covered up these topics, so it’s like a revision for them. Rather than keeping quiet they just …
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