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How to Fight the Mid-Term Blues
What are they? As someone who has spent a lot of time in full time education (this is my 5th year of university!) I have noticed a very specific trend. At the start of term, everyone is loving life. You start school after spending some time quality holiday time with your family desperate to hang…
The 80:20 Rule: How to spend less time studying but be more productive
We all know how it feels to be inefficient: spending many hours “studying” without getting much productive work done can be incredibly frustrating, and is a drain on time and energy for IB students everywhere. What if you could spend LESS time studying, but still get MORE done in your day? If this sounds too good…
How to Wrap Up your First Year of IB Work
With your first year of IB coming to an end, over the last few weeks some of you may have found yourself staring longingly out the classroom window. With the sun making a few tentative appearances, turning the outdoors from drizzly grey to beautiful technicolour, this can only mean one thing. The summer holidays are…
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…
The Art of Making Awesome Notes
I feel like the art of note-taking, or at least of taking effective notes, is often underestimated. Yes, almost all of us make them in lessons, but it’s easy to forget how valuable they can be later on. Making awesome notes in the IB is especially important, as there is so much information across the…
How to beat the IB if you’re lazy
Being lazy means not wanting to work hard when you don’t have. It means not wanting to do things the hard way and spend hours on something that you can get away with doing in minutes – or not doing at all. If you’re lazy, I like you, and you can still be awesome at…
The Power of Focus in the IB
If I ask you about how you want to do in the IB, you’re probably thinking you want to do really well! Ok maybe you’re just hoping to pass at this point – but either way you have a score in mind you want to achieve. The struggle is attaining that score. But why is…
How to learn more quickly
Do you sometimes find yourself putting off work because you’re worried about starting it? Maybe you think it’s going to be too hard or that you won’t have time. Or maybe you’re OK at starting but you can’t keep going for that long? One of the keys to dealing with this is staying calm and…
The SCORE Method for Making Awesome IB Notes
You want IB points fast – that means you need to take good notes. Here’s how. Why should I care about notes? There’s tons to remember in the IB Understanding DOES NOT EQUAL remembering. If you remembered everything you ever learned then you’d be a super-genius and could probably get on TV. Normal people need…
