What is your least favourite IB class and why?

[AirenMaxence]

MATH! Everything we learn are so irrelevant. when would I ever apply the derivative to anything?!?! Plus paper 1, no calcuator, it's about understanding of maths not how fast you can calculate mentally! I guess i've grown too attached to my Texas instrument.

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[Bishup]

I like all of mine but if I had to pick it'd be Japanese

[Tsubaki]

In the past, I probably would have said history, but looking back on it that class at least kept my attention; the only reason I didn't like it at the time was because my teacher graded rather hard and I was honestly expecting a 5 or even a 4 in History HL, and thus I thought the course was a lot harder than it actually was.

Thinking about it now, I'd have to say Biology. To be perfectly honest, it just bored me, and I found it very difficult to pay attention because I really, really didn't care. Which is probably why I didn't do all that great, in retrospect.

[dessskris]

Chemistry!

Very boring indeed,

I always feel sleepy in chem class

The teacher never explains clearly, and I usually dont understand what she is talking about

We conduct experiments every week. which means that we would have to do LAB REPORTS every week! duh!

Or could even be 2 lab reports per week (the first draft of the latter exp; the final draft of the prev week exp)

I dun like chem class. and indeed I really enjoy the other classes

[Bishup]

Chemistry!

Very boring indeed,

I always feel sleepy in chem class

The teacher never explains clearly, and I usually dont understand what she is talking about

We conduct experiments every week. which means that we would have to do LAB REPORTS every week! duh!

Or could even be 2 lab reports per week (the first draft of the latter exp; the final draft of the prev week exp)

I dun like chem class. and indeed I really enjoy the other classes

If your teacher makes you do 1 or 2 lab reports every week then she seriously is wasting your time. You only need a few lab reports to tick the boxes of the IA requirements. Either your IB school is inexperienced or your teacher is taking the piss.

[dessskris]

I know right!!

My chem teacher IS the one who is inexperienced! she used to teach A Levels and she is new in my school. she actually told us that we are doing many experiments so that we have more choices of IAs to send to the IBO. as in, the more we do, there might be some good ones apart from the bad ones, so we will send the best ones to IBO. but cmon lar, that's really a waste of time. and energy. and paper. and ink. haha

and as a conclusion, I hate chemistry class x(

[Mahuta ♥]

Oh god, definitely ITGS.

That was a JOKE.

We never did anything, the whole time we just watched videos, 9/11 documentaries, vietman videos..etc..etc.

Apart from that, I liked my other classes.

[Guest IMBATMAN]

HL Chemistry just kills me........

seriously

[Jackie]

Chemistry. Chewed me up and spat me back out last year. Why do nearly all of the Chem teachers seem to be terrible?

[Sandwich]

Probably HL English Lit for the sheer slow dragging death of it. I've never sat for so many hours of clock-watching. Our teachers were extremely attentive so it was 2 years of SILENCE. So many hours of my life gone

The worst taught subjects/hardest subjects were at least mildly engaging or teachers didn't care if you chatted @____@

[Amber]

French B SL - - -I had a double block today, was HORRIBLE!!!!!!

[elmar]

HL English A1. I feel like I'm not preparing at all for any of the world lits/assessments, which are most likely going to be assigned to us at some insane date and due the next week.

[kiwi.at.heart]

Definitely Spanish ab intio. I know its dead easy but the teacher is one of the worst teachers i have ever had. She can make 70 minutes turn into what feels like 2 hours and it doesnt help that I always have the class right before lunch, so Im always hungry which doesnt help.

[-Carl]

SL Chemistry. Labs will be the death of me, and we've just begun!

[Guest]

I'd go with HL math. But now I'm planning to drop it for English HL.

[IBnoob]

FRENCH!!!!!Cuz of a million verb conjugations!!!

Edited September 21, 2010 by IBnoob

[waterwhistle]

I would have said ESS a year ago, but now I'd say Music. I don't hate it, but it's the one that's giving me the most grief. I knew I should've taken Visual Arts. u_u

[~Lc~]

Alright girls and boys, this looks to me like post count increase Heaven. To avoid this for greedy VIP status seekers, how about we change the thread topic to which subject and why. That way it's actually a discussion (as the forum suggests it be) and no a one word posting fiesta!

Thankies

[Heisenberg]

Norwegian A1. It just adds unnecessary workloads on me and takes time that I could have spent doing relevant study in the subjects I plan to get an education in later.

[laryxle]

I like all my subjects to a degree.

But in terms of the course, I would definitely have to say History HL. I just find it boring, probably because I had a really bad teacher at the start of IB1 who spent nearly half the year teaching us about the French Revolution when we didn't even need to do it (the reason we studied it was because he liked Marie Antoinette. I'm not even kidding). So now we're rushing 4 topics for paper 3, two of which we have only half done (we spent one hour on Italian unification for the Italian/German unification option), and rushing all the other topics as a result. And it's not that engaging, just a lot of reading. And it is taking up all my study time for exams which are in 5-ish weeks :/ But I LOVE my teacher who took over from the crap one, so I enjoy the class but not the course if that makes sense?

Edited September 21, 2010 by laryxle