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The Extended Essay Step-by-Step Guide 2: Your Topic
There is a secret that could help all you first year IB students out there. It is the key to making next year a whole lot easier. It will reduce stress, make the workload easier to handle, and give you time. What is the secret? It’s that you’re better off starting the Extended Essay as soon…
IB Perspectives: Student Stories from around the World – part 6
Since Autumn last year we’ve been taking a look at different IB experiences from around the world, seen through the eyes of current students studying in countries from Sweden to Singapore. We all know it’s tough to find the balance between the workload and all the other things we might want to do alongside the…
Using the Syllabus as a Science Revision Tool
Not all IB students realise this, but the syllabus is a precious gift bestowed upon all students by the IB Powers-That-Be. If used wisely, syllabuses can be extremely powerful revision tools. Particularly for ‘fact-heavy’ subjects like the sciences, syllabuses contain pretty much everything you’ll need to know on exam day to achieve top marks, sometimes…
Master the IB in 3 Simple Steps
We’ve all had that problem. We’re sitting in a lesson. We’re following what the teacher is saying. But there’s something that we just can’t get our head around. The binomial distribution maybe, or Plato’s Theory of Forms. We try to reread what we’ve just written in our notes. We think it through and… blank. It’s…
IB Perspectives: Student Stories from around the World – part 5
Whatever the myths and stereotypes that surround the IB Diploma Program, the truth is that it’s what you make of it. In this blog series we’re taking a look at the experiences of different IB students around the world. For our fifth student perspective we hear from Anna Sophie in Vienna. You can read part 4…
Sleep Smart – 4 Tech Tips to Hack Your Sleep and get those 8 Hours
Sleep is important. We all know this. Thanks to PhD students at MIT, we now understand that it is whilst we are asleep that our brain’s prefrontal cortex shifts all of the information we learn in a school day to the file marked ‘long-term memory’, ready to be accessed when those final exams eventually roll…
Organisation: A Guide for the Disorganised IB Student
There’s one thing that I truly believe is consistent among all the IB students who get the highest grade. And that’s organisation. Some of them would argue that they’re not organised at all. That their notes are messy, they don’t make schedules, or they feel they’re all over the place. But what I said still…
IB Perspectives: Student Stories from around the World – part 4
Curious to know how other students are getting through the IB Diploma Program? In this blog series we’re taking a look at the experiences of different IB students around the world. Our fourth student perspective comes from Singapore, in the words of Georgia Moody, a native Australian who’s grown up in Japan and Singapore. You can…
IB Perspectives: Student Stories from around the World – part 3
Curious to know how other students are getting through the IB Diploma Program? In this blog series, we’re taking a look at the experiences of different IB students around the world. Our third perspective comes from the UK, in the words of Samuel Quang, a final year IB student. You can read part 2 of…
6 Steps to the Perfect Study Environment
If you can concentrate you can learn quickly. If you can learn quickly you can ace your studies. So the obvious question is…how do you concentrate. One of the most important factors affecting your concentration is your environment. In this post, we’re going to examine the main characteristics of the perfect study environment. Then we’re…
