Guest quisquis Posted May 26, 2008 Report Share Posted May 26, 2008 so always keep in mind that if you don't understand something it might be the book's fault and not yours Indeed, unfortunately also at times in the solutions. So, after you recalculated the exercise 10 times, make sure to check with your maths teacher before starting to lose faith in yourself. I wish I had sometimes asked after the 2nd time, would have spared me some time... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
starry-night Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 for econ we use the global perpective book mentioned by Silviana - its helpful for some sections but for development it's quite bad so we just got handouts. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeHits Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 Math - The Australian press oneHistory - A myriad of photo-copied documentsEnglish - Novels, duhFrench - En Direct series(1, 2 and 3) and supplementary reading materialsChemistry - IBID Chemistry(YUCK) and first-year University text(was pretty good, forgot publisher and author), IB Chemistry Course CompanionPhysics - IBID Physics(ICK), IB Physics Course Companion, Physics by Giancoli(very good)Biology - IBID Biology, IB Bio Course Companion, Inquiry Into Life Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paccu Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 My school:Maths HL: Haese and HarisEcon HL: IBIDBusiness and Management: the teacher recomend us to read more books , some of them are the textbooks used in the uni course.... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imaginelifeless Posted August 24, 2008 Report Share Posted August 24, 2008 I spent a fortune on IB textbooks, and i didnt use them at all. they're all brandnew wrapped with protective cover and nothing's been written or highlighted in them. they are absolutely useless. the only textbook i heard was good, was econs, but i dont take econs, so i don't know. the maths haese&harris is really useless. the questions in there are nothing compard to what you'll get in your IB exam. i think you should use Alvl texts instead. although they are much more indept, they explain stuff much more clearly and actually have good examples which you can study from. American AP textbooks are not bad too. basically, if you're doing the IB, dont rely on textbooks written for the IB, cos you'll find that the content falls short of the difficulty that you'll encounter in the exam qns Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneyfaery Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Biology - Biology for the IB Diploma by Andrew AllottMath - Mathematics SL Exam Preparation & Practice Guide^ Those are pretty useful for the final exam. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
djshah Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Course companions!!! They are all useful , Biology, TOK, english and especially economics. I think the economics one is the best. Although it states clearly on the front that the course companion is not meant for one stop resource. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Lc~ Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I spent a fortune on IB textbooks, and i didnt use them at all. they're all brandnew wrapped with protective cover and nothing's been written or highlighted in them. they are absolutely useless. the only textbook i heard was good, was econs, but i dont take econs, so i don't know. the maths haese&harris is really useless. the questions in there are nothing compard to what you'll get in your IB exam. i think you should use Alvl texts instead. although they are much more indept, they explain stuff much more clearly and actually have good examples which you can study from. American AP textbooks are not bad too. basically, if you're doing the IB, dont rely on textbooks written for the IB, cos you'll find that the content falls short of the difficulty that you'll encounter in the exam qnsI disagree, the IBID chem book was perfect for the core material, it's just the option that it didn't cover everything of! the math books are pretty bad I agree, but my teacher never needed it anyway. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haney Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 i found the Clegg- Biology - is a really useful book and economics through diagrams A/AS level is great and contested spaces, conflict in europe is good tooCourse companions!!! They are all useful , Biology, TOK, english and especially economics. I think the economics one is the best. Although it states clearly on the front that the course companion is not meant for one stop resource.our teacher bought the course booklet aswell as another Ib textbook by Matt Mcgee- economcis in terms of the good the bad and the economist- and it's so confusing, especially when the course companion stays supply and demand when Mcgee changes to marginal social benefit and marginal social cost. (BUT he is REAlly good and funny!) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee =3 Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 for chem, i'd recommend IBID..for maths, there's this new series that's come out this year..i dont remember the name atm..but for HL, there are 2 volumes, blue and green, for SL, one volume, red, and I think for FM, there's a purple one..but they're really good. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma3zooz Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 bio and chem... IB study guides for the IB diploma - oxford..chem geoff neussbio allott...just perfect.. right amount of info in a concise and clear manner... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneyfaery Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 (edited) Course companions!!! They are all useful , Biology, TOK, english and especially economics. I think the economics one is the best. Although it states clearly on the front that the course companion is not meant for one stop resource.Really? I personally found the Course Companions useless (for Bio, btw). Read through it, deemed that it blabbered too much and wasn't as concise as my notes, and never looked at it again. It's still all new and shiny. Edited September 18, 2008 by moneyfaery Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solaris Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Physics - Physics for the IB diploma by Tolkien, and the book by IBID, advanced physics - Oxford.Chemistry - IBID book, calculations for a-level chemistry, advanced physics oxford.Maths - IBID book, IB Maths-haese and harris. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vvi Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 TOK textbook is excellent, saves my life when I have no idea what our teacher wants us to talk about. "Theory of Knowledge", by Nicholas Alchin. It's written specifically for the IB, and so is quite easy to understand. Covers all areas of knowledge as well as ways of knowing. It has lots of quotes and articles on TOK-related subjects.For History, our teacher gave us handouts for Russia but photocopied and bound lots of different books and sources into textbooks on Fascist Italy for everyone this year. She spent all summer doing them, poor thing.Economics=Robert Glanville and his "Economics from a Global Perspective". Too bulky and no one in class has ever read it except for 2 pages on development economics. Although a guy from my school read it all through the week before his exams and got a 6 or 7...so could help. Just stick to the Oxford Revision Guide, it's shorter.Bio=IB Course Companion, I like it quite a lot. Diagrams are good and material is divided clearly into SL and HL, with options at the back.French SL=Tricolore 4, which is RUBBISH. I took a French course this summer in France and we bought 2 books, "Alterego 2" or "Tout, Ca Va 3". They are certified by European Standards and since it's up to your individual teacher to decide the syllabus, you might as well just learn all the harder stuff like environment vocab, etc. since it always comes up on exams.English=the books we read in class as texts. You can't learn how to write commentaries from reading books, you need to actually practice.Maths=Ibid Press, which has tons of typos and answers that are wrong in the back of the book. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBdoc Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Bio: Biology for the IB diploma by Clegg Chem: Advanced Chemistry (it's a blue and heavy textbook)French: Tout droit + Droit au but Maths: Mathematics HL & SL with HL options (it's a black thick book)English: English A1 Course CompanionITGS: No textbooks just hand-outs Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrswong Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 We use a Haese & Harris book for Maths.. I seem to find the Course Companions in the IB store helpful as well. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
[m a a r i.] Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Chinese B - Chinese Made Easy Textbook 5 :P. that was good. helpful. but for me its a bit easy since i learnt chinese since preprimary.English A1 - The English Course Companion im using , and im doing all those eng lit books.Chemistry - Course Companion and IBIDMaths - OXFORD Mathematics standard level for the IB Diploma, goooood book. recommend this , the one with the SHELL ON IT Business & Management - IBID, RECOMMENDED . VERY DETAILED AND THICK TOO. AND VERY USEFUL. [iTGS- CURRENTLY NEED A BOOK FOR THAT, i was planning to get COMPUTER CONFLUENCE. anybody have suggestions. I JUST WISHED SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT ITGS. ] Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
3!sha Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 Biology : Heinmann Bacalaureate - A must have in my opinion Course Companion - Study guide Chemistry: Heinmann Bacalaureate IBID Course Companion Study guide Economics: IBID - Awsome! not your usual dry textbook, the author (Matt McGee) is hilarious Course Companion - The best of the course companions IMOMath: Math for the international student (Hease and Harris) - though there are pple who bash this bookEnglish and Arabic: The novels TOK: Theory of Knowledge by Richard van de Lagemaat Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkSpider Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Physics - Physics for the IB diploma by TolkienPhysics for the IB diploma by K.A.TSOKOS, it's not LOTR physics... =PAnd yeah, that's a great book, has enough info for everything, but it does do a bad job of covering Nuclear Physics, so I reccomend... anything else... for that.Math: Calculus, Early Transcendentals, 6th edition, by James Stewart.Good book, great examples, and awesome practice questions, and early transcendentals is IMO the best way of doing calculus. Also includes a very IBesque problems plus section that gives some really tough problems that are thankfully more than IB would ever give you. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfabeta Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 (edited) I just need to get something off my chest, The IBID physics book is the worst book ever written! It's not wort the paper it's written on! By God I hope the author of the book will burn in hell after having suffered a painfull death! Seriously, the book seems like it's written by some drunk homeless man, needing money for some more drugs..... and the Chemistry IBID book, may Jesus have a whip to smite this author, it is one god damn failur the hole book.... I can frankly not understand why they published it, we are supposed to become the superior race in the world, give us some better books! I demand it, this must stop, the only thing i can blaim my 7 in physics on is the past papers..... That is not how it is supposed to be! Can i hear a YEAAAH! from people who agree with me! CheersAlfabeta Edited December 8, 2008 by Alfabeta Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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