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4 IGCSE Science Tips To Help You Master Any Science Subject
Written by a guest author No one can say that taking an IGCSE Science isn’t challenging! Unlike Maths or English, the Sciences seem to have an endless number of things to take into account and understand if learners want to get the results they’re really hoping for (and need!). Often IGCSE Science students feel overwhelmed.…
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7 Tips to Get Into the Right Exam Mindset for the IB
Exams are now terrifyingly close, and to perform well, you need to be in the right exam mindset. Improving your outlook, however, is often more complicated than you would think. Before we discuss how you can get the right mindset, let us consider what a poor one might look like. Do you have the wrong…
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Finding a Good Research Question for the History IA
Written by Jay Ayliffe, history tutor at Lanterna and author of Lanterna’s History IA Guide The History Internal Assessment requires students to investigate a historical topic of their choice. This means you could write about potentially anything, as long as it’s not about an event from the last ten years. This gives you an incredible…
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Study-Life Balance in the IB | An Honest Guide
There are many clichés when it comes to study-life balance. I imagine no one reading this would be surprised if I told them that to have a healthy study-life balance in the IB, they should limit screen time, sleep well and do 100 push-ups daily. This is all true, of course, but radical lifestyle changes…
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5 Free Apps for Exam Revision
As much as teachers and parents like to tell you to stay away from your screens, particularly your phone, we mustn’t forget that they can be powerful revision tools. Making the most out of your electronic study buddies can be the difference between barely passing and comfortably cruising through the exams. Okay, I have yet…
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Holiday Break — 5 Steps to Not Fall Behind
The long-awaited holiday break is almost upon us. For some of us dwelling in the northern hemisphere, snow has come down, covering the Christmas ornaments that decorate the streets. In this time of glee and gingerbread, it is of utmost importance that we do not become so entranced that we forget all about the IB!…
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How-to: Our tips for a great IB Mock Exam Mindset!
It’s (unfortunately) that time of year again, where IB mock exams and target grades start to become a lot more relevant. Today, we’ll run through our top tips of how to get in the right mindset to smash those exams out of the park! Work backwards Step one is of course knowing which mocks you…
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How Practice got Asha 45 Points in the IB
Practice. This is how 19-year-old Asha graduated from the IB in 2021 with a whopping 45 points. She has been teaching chemistry, maths and biology with Lanterna since April. After crushing the IB, she set sail for London and is now amid her biochemistry bachelor’s at UCL, taking the world by storm. Obviously, Asha did…
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Optimised IB Note Taking: Learn and Remember!
This week, I’ll take you through the optimised note taking process! This will turn those useless, confusing sheets of muddled notes in to a life-saver revision resource. To spice it up, I’ll also show you how I combined my note taking with active revision, cementing any information I was learning so that it’s there, in…
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Workload in DP1 – Managing It
When I started the IB, I worried that I would not manage to do everything in time. My school dumped all this new information on me; I had to think about the EE, and my IA’s, learn new subjects, get to know new people and learn what TOK and CAS are. If any of that sounds familiar, you…
