the lanterna blog
Below you will find in-depth reports, thought pieces on modern education, as well as hundreds of tips on how to excel at the IB.
Back to the Basics: How to Take Good Notes
With Spring around the corner, lots of students are starting to feel as though they are drowning in tests, assignments and everyday homework. However, this is not the time to de-prioritize your notes. Rather, it’s time to make sure they are living up to your standards. Understanding the importance of taking good notes To make…
Keep or chuck? Make your notes revision-ready!
It may be the oldest trick in the procrastination book. But decluttering and sorting your notes is actually really important. Before you get down to revision, organising your notes into orderly, labelled and topic-specific sections will allow you to follow a revision plan much better and ensure you don’t miss out big sections when studying.…
Prioritisation Square: Get Your Priorities Straight!
Does your to-do list ever seem so impossibly long, you don’t even know where to start? It’s all too easy to find yourself filling your time with menial, insignificant tasks (like reordering your chemistry folder or rearranging your pencil case) to avoid the big scary ones. So how then, when the to-do list is mounting, do…
Tips from an IB Grad: How to Master your IOP!
For many, the Individual Oral Presentation (IOP) in Language A is the first of many Internal Assessments you do as part of your IB journey. Therefore, today’s blog post will be centered upon the most common mistakes of IOPs and how to avoid them. We will do this by first examining what the IOP actually…
Dead Time: the quick-fix solution to productivity
Time management is a true art. One which few ever totally master. IB students are forever complaining that they don’t have enough hours in the day to get everything done. But 24 hours is a lot of time, right? So where does it all go? And how can you better use your time to become…
How to Ace your TOK Presentation
But first, what is the TOK presentation and what does it actually involve? The presentation is one of two compulsory TOK assignments. The TOK presentation is meant to test your understanding of TOK concepts in relation to a real-life situation. The real-life scenario can be based on a situation in your local community or an issue…
Working in a winter wonderland: the how-to guide
It’s finally here! You made it through the long and gruelling term one. You’ve truly earned your chance to sit back and relax. It’s really important that you take this chance to have a well-deserved and much needed break from studying. But of course, especially if you’re a final year IB student, I don’t advise…
IB Mock Exams – Do they really matter?
Mock Exams: The only obstacle between you and final exams. Here is an unfiltered and unbiased opinion about the utility of Mock Exams, from the perspective of an IB graduate. Perhaps a controversial opinion, but I think Mock Exams matter both a great deal and very little. Mock Exams matter… Because the setting will incredibly…
Thinking outside the CAS box!
“Eurgh, CAS”, said every IB student ever. An element of the IB that at first appears so exciting. An opportunity to explore new and existing interests. So why is it that IB students so often turn to resent CAS? Juggling school-work, sleep and attempting to keep your social life intact is challenging enough without CAS.…
TOK Essay? No problem!
TOK Essay: The assignment that has to be done, but seems like an impossible challenge before you even look at the prescribed questions. If you haven’t started looking at this year’s essay titles, you might begin by doing this. However, if you feel like “Um, what is this and how does any of the work…
