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General discussion about IB that are not subject specific.
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Hello! I would like some help with my ia question. I currently want to do something with Joan of Arc’s trial, like… To what extent was Joan of Arcs trial politically and religiously motivated to find her guilty? thank you.
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Hi Y'all, I'm wanting to do my History IA on the berlin wall because I'm interested in the German culture. I don't really know much about the topic at the moment to create a proper question to make an analysis. But with the research i have done im interested in how the nation made agreements and or treaties to "allow" the wall to be brought up and how it affected the civilians in Germany. so my struggle is to create a question to make it sound semi solid. Maybe the idea of "The effect of the berlin wall during 1958-1961 on societal and geopolitical standards" any ideas? :) thank you for whoever helps
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So I'm in ib dp1, take chem hl, eng A sl, german ab initio sl, physics sl, math aa hl, history hl and music (as a 7th subject just for myself). And I feel like I'm failing ib. I'm good with I'm not rly good at my subjects but I'm sure I can pull them up if I try harder. The thing is PHYSICS. I got 1 on my last test ( and usually get low grades such as 3). Idk what to do. I thought I still have time to improve before next year and then realised that I will need predicted grades in the beginning of next year for my uni application. So if I start now will they give me good ones? Overall what do u think bout it? Also the thing is technically I can drop phys and c…
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Hello, I'm currently in G10 but I just want to ask and prepare for the IB in advance. I haven't studied in overseas for a long period so my english ability is worse than others. (I'm an EAL student.) Though I got high score in the english proficiency test, I'm not sure if it is okay to take the English A SL instead of choosing English B HL. I heard that English B has more disadvantages compare to English A SL... what should I do?
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So for the past weeks I have been thinking about my maths IA but I am just really unsure about my topic. I was thinking about a research question like this : How long would it have taken for every human to get covid 19 if there weren't any restrictions. I am doing maths AI in HL and I would just like to know your opinions or suggestions about my idea.
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Hi everyone, I have just started DP 1 two or three weeks ago and I am VERY VERY confused for making the booklist for my Hindi which is a self taught language. Could someone please give me some recommendations if you have taken Hindi self taught language or if you could share your booklist🤕. I would be VERY grateful to you guys. Thank you everyone in advance!!😌😌
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Hi! I’ll be choosing my subjects this year and I really need help in choosing them. I’d like to study astrophysics or astronomy later on but is it possible to choose physics and biology HL? I can choose only two as my school requires that we take English as one of the HL’s. I was thinking about it and heard bad opinions on HL maths, but I have a thing for biology so would it be possible to get into astrophysics with SL maths, HL physics and HL biology?
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What is the lowest grade you can get in grade 7 term 2 report card to get into the IB program? I currently have a 70, 80's and two 95's. I have an Average of 81, will that be enough for them to consider me?
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Does anyone have any great ideas for business or math, I've been looking for business and can't really find anything with great amount of sources. For math I was interested in time dilation or hdi index but I don't have a specific question regarding them.
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hi, if you live in the USA can you please fill out a survey for my Math AI (SL) IA! it will only take less than a minute, thank you sm Favorite Holiday Cookie
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Hello there fellow IB sufferers, itsa me, Mario, joining y'all in this hellhole • Here are my two options: HL: Turkish A Lit, English B, Biology SL: Maths AA, German AB Initio, Business or HL: Turkish A Lit, English B, Maths AA SL: Biology, German Ab Initio, Business Basically the only change is the levels of Maths and Biology. I want to be a character and/or environment designer for animations and/or video games, and I want to study that in Berlin. My German is currently B1/B2 I believe, but my school only offers German as AB. I am also currently preparing an arts portfolio and doing freelance work every now and then. (I make enoug…
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Hi! I am currently working on completing my extended essay for the International Baccalaureate program. Attached is a questionnaire aiding in this endeavor. If you could complete the link and share it with family and friends, it would be a huge help. Thank you so much! Questionnaire Link: https://forms.gle/7DrWwRvHwsiPULSZ8
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Hi! I'm doing the Ib entrance exam for Alexander Mackenzie High School. I have no idea how to practice nor does the website for the school have anything helpful about the exam. Does anyone know any books/websites that can help with the french and english portion of the exam? Or even for the math portion. Also does anyone have a link for a practice exam? Do the grade 7 final report card marks weigh a lot on the application? (My average was 93.5) Sorry for all the questions, but you would be a lifesaver if you could answer them! Thank you and have a nice day.
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Hey everyone, I am entering DP next year and I am still struggling with some decisions, for now I can choose either a school with high reputation but I may have a lower score (Only Math AAHL and Literature and Math aa and literature may be too hard. ) or a school where I may have a better mark and have stayed for the past 2 years. How should I choose… Oh and also will two science hl be too challenging or its ok
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Hi, I have a few questions regarding applying to Pre-IB at Parkdale Collegiate Institute. (The entrance exam is on January 10th, 2019) My average for my final grade 7 report card is 82%, and for my grade 8 report card I got 2 Es and 4 Gs as well as 5 progressing very wells and 5 progressing wells. What would be the chances I'd get accepted? I aim to do well on the entrance exam, and based on my marks above, if i achieve a 85% or above on the math assessment and write a good essay, would I be able to get in? How many students apply to Parkdale CI for IB each year, and what are the chances of being accepted depending on your marks? Would studying al…
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Hi! Im starting pre ib at bss this year, and I was wondering if anybody knows what books or things i should look into to at least get a head start or prepare myself for the classes! Thank you!
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I believe I deserve a higher grade in the IA. How can I request a re- moderation? I was informed that I can only request it if the difference between the teachers marks and the IB moderator's mark is more than 15%, which is not the case. What can be done?
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I'm an international IB student who got into Cambridge's Veterinary Medicine program but cannot afford to pay their overseas tuition (9x the domestic student fees!!). I applied to the Cambridge Trust's scholarships but none of them answered me. I also tried to look up some national scholarships from where I'm from but none of them get close to covering a significant portion of the tuition. Going to Cambridge is my lifelong dream and I'm not ready to let this opportunity go away, especially after all the effort I put into these past years. Can somebody help? Is anybody in a similar situation?
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as title says, is it so?
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Hi! So i'm 2 marks away from 5 in Geography HL and I've been wandering what are the chances of the grade going up. I've applied to University College Cork in Ireland and in order to meet the requirements I need at least 5 in two HL subjects (I've received 466 in HL subjects and 447 in SL subjects, 32 points overall). Should I try for a remark or not? And do you know, perhaps, whether I have a chance or not to get into UCC with my resuts? I would really appreciate your opinion :D
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Hey there everyone, I am now moving to grade 11 and ill need to pick my IB subjects. I need some help. To begin with, i want to pursue a career and get a job as a Software Dev. Ill also look into having my own buisness that i have ideas for. The Universities im looking to get into are: Rutgers University NJ NUS Singapore SUTD Singapore New York University NY Some of them just dont show the subject requirements for CS. Ive tried looking for so long but theres nothing there for IB. For my IGCSE i got good grades in Physics, CS, Maths, and Biology. However after taking a look at IB Physics and Maths AA,…
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I am into aircrafts and want to study aircraft engineering in university. Do you know any universities has aircraft engineering bachelor program????
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What does the IB mean exactly when they say an essay should have "spatial emphasis"? What is the definition of spatial emphasis in regards to geography ee?
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Hello, I am 16 years old and just moved to Dubai this summer. I started the first year of the IB Diploma Programme in September, over here. I am struggling at school because of the new environment. The class sizes are huge, and I'm having problems settling in, even though it's been two months since school started. I spoke to my parents about changing schools, and they were extremely understanding, even though I was the one who chose to go to this school. However, we looked for every possible IB school in Dubai, and were unsuccessful. Either the schools didn't offer the subjects I wanted to take, The class sizes were too big there as well, or they weren't taking anymore st…
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Hello! I have recently just joined a private school which is an ib curricular high school and since I am not really familiar with the ib stuff, I wanted to know if anyone could just tell me their honest opinion on the courses I am planning on taking and some questions I have For my courses (I will be in grade 11 after this summer) I am planning on choosing these. English A: Language and Literature (HL) Spanish ab initio (SL) Psychology (HL) (I do not have any prior knowledge in psychology but I am very interested...) Biology or Computer Science (SL) or maybe (HL) Mathematics applications (SL) Music (HL) or (SL) I believe …
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I am applying to St. Robert’s high school which is an IB school in Toronto in November and I have a few different answers about what is on it after asking around. Is it just Math and English or is French included? And how hard is it? If anyone goes there or has even gone to an IB school in Canada and has a sense of what it is on could help me out that would be great 👍🏼
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I'm a sophomore currently doing the IB regional program at my school (I'm enrolled in the full DP program junior and senior year) but I'm really indecisive if I should go through with it or not. I'm planning on going to college to study in the engineering field, but I feel like the program won't be that beneficial to me in the future. I also don't really have a good understanding of what I'm getting myself into, and I feel like I'm about to give up my life outside of school for this diploma that I'm not even guaranteed. Any advice?
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I am currently in my first year of IBDP and I need to choose my HLs soon. I am interested in sciences so I wanted to do HL for biology, chemistry and psychology, but would that be too much content to memorise? Would it be better if to do english HL instead? Thanks.
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So I'm going to start the DP in August 2022 (taking M24), and I wanted some advice for my subject selections. Intended Major: Physics in a US University Subjects Physics HL Maths AA HL Geography HL Chem SL English Language & Literature SL Mandarin B SL I took Geo as a filler HL, and Chem because my university required one year of all 3 highschool sciences, and I took Bio in MYP
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Hi, I am wondering how to teach mixed HL and SL classes with DP Biology. The timetable has 7 lessons per 2-week cycle. HL students go to all 7 and SL students go to 5. Bearing in mind the SL content is required to do the more in-depth HL content I don't see how I can structure this. At some point, at the beginning of the first cycle of the year, I am going to have to teach HL content. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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how do you start preparing for mocks one month before they happen? i still have upcoming tests for each subject so it's hard to find time for mock preparation. any tips pls?
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Hi, I'd be really grateful if you could complete this survey for my ESS IA (individual investigation). It's about fast fashion awareness and consumption. Link to survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRb7jU-EYK49aseXA708Hs5AJFPmxYk_MVMfpjzf4V0YY6xA/viewform?usp=sf_link Thank you for helping me out!
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Hi Everybody, my names Sam. And I am a proud IB graduate of 41 points and a prospective student of the University of York to read Economics (BSc). My exams (M21) were cancelled so my grades essentially came down to the quality of my IA's and I'm lucky that I did really well on all of them. I helped out a lot of people in my school with their IA's too and gave them feedback on how to improve and I can honestly say I helped improve quite a few of the final grades of my peers. I then started offering my help as a service and started spreading my services online by asking friends to tell other friends and I feel I've done quite a bit of good there too. With another year of Co…
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Should my math IA score be put into my normal class grade? My bio IA grade is exempt
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Hi, I was wondering what grade and points I need for my Tok essay to pass TOK overall because my teacher gave me an E on the Tok exhibition which I couldn’t understand why. I already submitted my tok essay but I’m not confident at all about the essay.
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does anyone struggle with studying for ESS i find it so so so boring and my teacher is just the worst and so i dont know anything, if anyone has some tips u could give me pls feel free 😩😩😩
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Hi I am a rising Grade 11 and I have a question I have to pick either Geo or Econ but I really can't choose one. For Geo Sl, I heard that it is REALLY easy (compared to Econ Sl, geo contents are cooler) so I want to do Geo for IB, but the problem is, our geo teacher is hell (according to Grade 12s). The geo teacher is so bad (she gives them bad grades) that the subject for Grade 11s has been abolished. For econ sl, I heard that it is do-able but the problem is I really have no basic knowledge in Econ. I might not even have an interest in econ. And also the econ teacher is very nice in our school. What do you guys recommend? Go for geo even if th…
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I'm currently gathering data for my Math IA. My survey is anonymous and only contains two questions about your GPA and Wordle score. If you get the chance to fill it out or send it to your Wordle playing friends, that would be amazing! Thanks everyone. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFQrsejTs4bk7PhDaq8wxMmT2LeeWp5hB6nSIo2ls8NNFoEA/viewform
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I'm currently gathering data for my Math IA. My survey is anonymous and only contains two questions about your GPA and Wordle score. If you get the chance to fill it out or send it to your Wordle playing friends, that would be amazing! Thanks everyone. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFQrsejTs4bk7PhDaq8wxMmT2LeeWp5hB6nSIo2ls8NNFoEA/viewform
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Hi! from the beginning of the year I've been taking Ib visual arts. Its the most interesting class and I really like it. However, its really time consuming and I found myself in situations that I dont have time to take care of myself and have time for other activities. The workload is so much. I really like doing it and the outcome is really good however I am not sure if the cost of taking this class is worth it. After these couple of months i understood that even though i love art and creating art myself, i dont like doing it under so much stress and deadlines, so now im not quite sure if i want to pursue it as a career. However, i am and always will be an artistic …
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I am a (potential) new student for the IB program @VPCI (I am torn between an offer from Crescent School and IB @VPCI). But, hypothetically, if I were to go to IB @VPCI, how much spare time would I have to participate in co-curriculars, contests, clubs, AP classes, etc. I'm just curious so that I can definitely decide on which school I should go to. Edit: The extracurriculars @VPCI look pretty nice, so that messes up my ability to make a definite choice even more... There's also "myths" of people saying that there's no time for sleep in IB...
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Hello! I'm a 10th grader in an IB school and I have to choose my courses for the upcoming 2 years. I'm thinking of taking a dentistry course in the UK although Im really bad at science in general but most college requirements have HL bio or/and HL chem. My current courses are HL physiology, HL mother tongue, HL art, SL biology, SL AA math, SL lang&lit. These are all based on my interest kinda and it was before I wanted to study dentistry so I want to change. My average grades in myp are bio,chem,physics is 4,5 and my lab reports are usually around 6. Im also currently trying to find a college accepting HL physiology and SL chem or bio but I know I'll n…
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Hey guys, I have got 6 out of 24 from my chemistry internal assessment. I am not surprised, because it was soooo weak. I wonder what percentage of the points are taken for the final grade. Is there any one who can answer my question?
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Hey guys, If your doing the full IB diploma program, what's the average number of hours you spend on homework a night? (i know people procrastinate and do nothing on one night and the cram it all in another night, so maybe how many hours a week?) and out of those hours how much of it is spent studying? Actual assigned work? big projects? Also, how does the homework load in 11th grade for DP compare to the homework amount in 10th grade for MYP? I do several out of school activities and i want to see what i need to get rid of before school starts so that I'm not completely overwhelmed. Listing what out of school stuff you do and what classes you take migh…
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hey everyone! im currently doing my math aa ia and i need more responses for my survey that's due in less than 24 hours... i would really appreciate your help in filling it out! thank you in advance! https://forms.gle/kfqzLYAfjaQ3dcFd9
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hi everyone, does someone know if we will do the covid model of the ib exams? We think we will do the normal exams with the paper 3, but we don't really know. Does anyone know something about this?? Thanks
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Hello so at my school we've been doing Mock exams and I was simply wondering what is considered a good test score in an IB exam. Say that I get 50% of the possible marks, where would that put me in the IB scale or if I'm aiming for a 5 around what percent of marks do I need to get on the exam? I know it depends on subjects and other factors as well but if anybody could give me an estimate it would be greatly appreciated.
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Most people know of resources like CAS Booster or Examsnap. I'm looking for new, interesting, resources that have saved your IB life.
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i really need help with my EE about franco, i was told by my supervisor to change it and my next deadline is 2000 words in 6 days, is it good enough to analyse wether he was good for spain overall? how would i word this question? (it was a 39 year dictatorship) so i feel like it would be too long a period to analyse in 4000 words but i dont have an argument so i dont know what to do!!! another option would be to focus on the spanish civil war and how guernica was possibly a turning poitn for this. All my research has been focused on the period of dictatorship so i would have to do new research but its whatevs. thankyouuu
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Since I'm going to go to the IB next year, I have to choose my 6 HL and SL courses by next week D-: I know I'm gonna do HL Bio and Chem next year but I'm stuck whether as to either let myself off easy and do HL Econ or if I should suffer through HL Math Analysis for the UK schools. I'm trying to do Pre-Med in a US college but going to the UK for undergrad seems like a cool experience.
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