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Avoiding Revision Burnout During Study Leave
Ahead of you lies a vast stretch of empty days, and it’s your responsibility to fill them. Planning your schedule from now until exams can be incredibly daunting. How many hours a day should I be studying? How many breaks should I be taking? Can I have days off? Getting to grips with these things…
Yay or Nay: Importance of Pre-Exam Routines
IB Exams: Just days away. A fact which feels overwhelmingly nauseating if you think about for too long. At Lanterna, when we speak to DP2 students, the most common question I get is “How can I best prepare for exams?” While we emphasize the importance of actually studying, we also stress the importance of an…
Building Study Stamina
Think of it like exercise. It’s really difficult at first, and you find it quite tiring, boring and unenjoyable. But the more you train, the more you practice, the better you become. With this, you feel more positive about the prospect of exercising. You are able to exercise for longer at a time, and more…
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…
