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Okay, lots of questions pop up such as 'what do I need to pass?' or 'will I fail if I get a 2?' and nobody knows all of the exact criteria and conditions so here is a list as published by the IB: The IB diploma will be awarded to a candidate whose total score is 24, 25, 26 or 27 points, provided all the following requirements have been met:a. Numeric grades have been awarded in all six subjects registered for the IB diploma. b. All CAS requirements have been met.c. Grades A (highest) to E (lowest) have been awarded for both theory of knowledge and an extended essay, with a grade of at least D in one of them.d. There is no grade 1 in any subject.e. There is no grade 2 at h…
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I just moved to a school with IB, I'm currently a Sophomore in Pre-IB, with a few IB and AP classes. Taking IB Pre-Calculus and it's not that bad at all. I'm a straight A student. What's the difference between Higher Level and Standard Level, what requirements are needed to be in a HL class? Does IB have any requirements as to which classes are HL and which are SL? What's the final requirement for the IB Diploma? I just feel so lost when people try explaining it to me. Thanks for any help ^.^
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Menu Lc's Guide to Writing an Essay! HMSChocolate's At-a-Glance Guide to the Logical Academic Argument Plagiarism, Academic Dishonesty and How to Avoid Them Frequently Asked Questions About Essay-Writing and IB Essays Julie's "The 6+1 Writing Trait System" VIP Only: Downloadable PDF supplement documents on writing skills. See also this thread for guide about Extended Essay Looking for help/advice with referencing and citations? Click Here! Lc's Guide to Writing an Essay! Well, I've been correcting a few world lit essays and TOK essays.. and I've noticed that most of what is discussed is amazing! And I find myself correcting the structure of the essay itself rath…
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Jump to Frequently Asked Question About the International Baccalaureate General IB Downloads Here are some useful files for IB students. Download is available to all members. If you want to donate and contribute files to our archive, please see this announcement or this FAQ section. Syllabi Diploma Statistics Other IBO documents Useful links to get you through IB Some advice to new IB students Note: Please don't take this starter pack for your bible. It's a guide. The extent that this can apply to individuals will vary, because different schools run IB differently. Enjoy your IB! You'll only get stressed if you leave things too late. The more you hate it, the more it…
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Having done the IB I know full well it's not just me who has time management/procrastination issues, so hopefully other people will find this useful (should there be an answer xP). I've never actually gone as far as a timetable before, but I feel it has become necessary because I genuinely suck at doing anything decent with my time unless forced Does anybody know of some free software which I can use to make myself a daily timetable a la computer? Thanks in advance!
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Just throwing this out there, because I see a lot of questions and a lot of wishy-washy answers about this... Your score in certain subjects is made up of components that are internally assessed and externally moderated Addition: some components, like your World Literature essay(s), ToK essay, and of course Extended Essay, are not moderated but assessed (i.e. all sent off) [thanks for lynyrd and imopotato for pointing out that the WL is not moderated] For others, like your IOC, Mathematics portfolios, Science Lab Reports, Economics Portfolio, (and so on), your teacher sends out a "representative" sample The size of this sample depends on the number of students in your cl…
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Here are a list of IB official teacher support materials for various subjects, and proved to be invaluable for me while doing my internal assessments (and also external assessment for theatre) for all subjects as it provides many exemplars both good and bad. I couldn't find the TSM for economics though... (Thanks Vioh) Comment below if you have any other teacher support material (2016) so I can add it below: Theory of Knowledge - https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=d_0_tokxx_tsm_1305_1_e∂=5&chapter=2&mode=moderator Theatre - https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=d_6_theat_tsm_1408_1_e∂=1&chapter=1 Physics - https://i…
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Sup people of the IB. I found a short guide that I wrote a while ago that deals with stress and procrastination. I'll add more to it later (the irony but it is late ) so hopefully it's helpful. There's more to come if I remember Stress Firstly stress at school is mainly caused by lack of organisation. So sorting that out could half or even eliminate your 'i want to rip the hair out of my head' feeling! How to organise work: Invest in a folder if you write notes with a note book and use folder separators to make things easier. This makes losing notes a lot less likely because they are in a named folder. Plus it makes you feel really professional If you're feeling …
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There are many threads around this giant forum that offer help, tips, advice, places to ask questions and get answer etc. etc. but like I said, it's a giant forum and finding them all, or finding the very one YOU need can be difficult. So here's a quick list of some awesome threads that you can use to help you with anything you might need. General IB Awesomeness 1. How To Not Fail at Writing Essays - READ THIS. Don't start your first essay without reading this. It's amazing, you just don't know it yet. 2. Citing The Sources - READ THIS TOO. If you do not cite right, it's plagiarism. Plagiarism =Fails and possible kick from the IB Programme. 3. Cutting…
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These are a few recommendations for how to prevent and manage stress. You can skip to the sections you want below. Introduction Techniques Meditation Schedule time off Have regular breaks Plan your work Clean yourself Manage expectations Eat properly Exercise Have fun with friends Summary Introduction These are some brief thoughts about how to manage stress throughout the IB exam period and in general. I welcome anyone and everyone to share the techniques they use to manage stress. Firstly, if you want to effectively reduce the amount of stress you feel with your workload, managing your time properly will help cut down on the level of stress you feel when working. So …
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As we may have known, the IBDP course is available for examinations in English, French and Spanish. Which language are/were you doing IBDP course in? Is/was your school only offering that language type of course? Any interest in doing the IBDP in another language? I am doing IBDP in English. I think all IB schools in Indonesia offer their courses in English it would be great if we had it in Bahasa Indonesia but I guess I'll still prefer the English course because it will help me to improve my English and prepare me to study abroad What about you guys?
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OK, so there are people who are asking for things such as "Give me an RQ" or along those lines. This thread is kind of like a super doc that will tell you the do's and the don'ts in terms of courtesy, asking for help etc. What we can help with! a) We can help narrow or broaden an RQ b) We can comment on how to improve an RQ c) We can help with explaining citations etc d) We can help explain what you have to do in an assessment. e) Tell you if an article is OK or not for an Econ IA. What we can't do! a) Give you an RQ b) Do your work for you c) Tell you a fail proof formula for a 7 (its not possible!) d) Allow you to discuss papers before 24 hours are up. IB rules. …
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Out of love for all you fellow IB survivors, I've done my research and made my notes and will post up the grade boundaries to all subjects I am aware of the grade boundaries for - apologies in advance that there are some subjects I don't know at all, or only have the HL for Group 1 English A Literature HL 1: 0 - 17% 2: 18 - 32% 3: 33 - 43% 4: 44 - 56% 5: 57 - 68% 6: 69 - 80% 7: 81%+ English A Literature SL 1: 0 - 16% 2: 17 - 30% 3: 31 - 42% 4: 43 - 55% 5: 56 - 68% 6: 69 - 80% 7: 81%+ Group 2 Spanish B HL 1: 0 - 13% 2: 14 - 27% 3: 28 - 46% 4: 47 - 60% 5: 61 - 72% 6: 73 - 86% 7: 87%+ Spanish B SL 1: 0 - 11% 2: 12 - 25% 3: 26 - 46% 4: 47 - 60% 5: 61 - 74% 6: 75 - 88% 7: 89%…
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With most subjects they only fluctuate about 1 or 2 marks each year, so these should be a good guide. To note, though, mark boundaries to science subjects and maths often vary a lot from year to year. If you have newer boundaries, please post them here so they can be added to the list. Menu May 2010 Boundaries - Multiple Subjects Multiple Grade Boundaries - May 2010 May 2009 Boundaries - All subjects ib_grade_boundaries_2009.pdf May 2008 Boundaries - All subjects IB_Component_Boundaries_2008.pdf May 2007 Boundaries - All subjects Grade_Boundaries.pdf May 2006 boundaries: Theory of knowledge Extended essays Group 1 English A1 Group 2 Chinese A2 Engli…
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While I was in IB a friend of mine decided to do a Physics IB grade calculator, another friend then added Economics into the calculator, and then I decided to add as many other subjects I could. Ok, now that the necessary credit has been given to my friends I can now explain how this works. Most IB students wonder how much they need to get a 7, how close they are, how many points they need in the exams, given that they already know their IA grades, etc. With this calculator I hope to make it a lot easier for everyone to find these things out. You simply find the subject you want, then put in the amount of points in each component (e.g. Internal Assessment, Paper 1, Paper …
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Hi everyone! Does anyone know the official IB deadlines for submission of IA's and Extended Essay?
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Hi all. I was wondering if there were any IB textbok PDFs or eBooks available (digital copies.) I've been searching around for quite some time with no luck. Here are the books that I'm looking for: Biology SL Math SL Or is it not available as a PDF format because it's an IB textbook? Thanks in advance.
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HI! do anybody have examples of the Biology IA please?????? Thank you
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Dear all, Goodluck in your results coming up the next few days. This thread has been created for you to post your results and discuss them to keep the forum tidy. Please refrain from starting new threads on the topic and just continue on here. We wish you the best of grades, to meet your offers and an awesome few years at Uni ahead! All the best, The IBSurvival Team
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I think it's neater to just have one big revision links thread here instead of different threads in the invididual subject forums. ..::[ General ]::.. IBGuides - A website with useful links for all subjects - useful for exam revision Vaughan IB Notes A huge collection of notes for IB across an area of subjects. IB Revision Notes - A lot of notes for IB divided into subjects and topics IB on Wikibook Revision notes, revision links etc. ibscrewed.net Resources Helpful links for revision S-Cool Revision - This is a General site to help you out in whatever you need, is for A-Levels but would definitley be helpful to any IB student. HSHS Website Experimental Sciences Internal…
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Hi you guys, I'm hoping to start IB next year and I have read A LOT of forums with many people saying how hard it is and stuff.. But I will see that next year. I just have one question: you graduate when you have 28 points right, so 38 points is - relatively - a lot above that. I am an HAVO student in the Netherlands now, which is the one level beneath the highest level here (VWO; you can go straight to uni then). Though my teachers say my current education is lower than what I'm capable of, I am a bit afraid that 36 or 38 points will be hard to achieve. I am ready to learn a lot and give up things, cause this is what I want (and what i will pay a big amount of mo…
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Hi everyone I thought of this yesterday while roaming through the IB world forum; I'm really interested to know where everyone took / is taking their IB Diploma to see how international IB Survival is. Below is the general format in which you should post your comment, basically school name, country and year of graduation. So here goes! Shaikha Hessa Girls' School, Bahrain, May 09 (N.B First IB Graduates ever! Woohoo! )
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So, it is finally the 5th of July, which means that some lucky people get to hear their results today if their IBC loves them, and for the rest of us it's only a day away. So this is the thread everyone can post their results in and discuss them! Good luck!
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Hello! Like what the topic title reads, does anyone know if it is possible to re-take an exam? If you're a May candidate, then will November be possible?
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When not succeeding to pass an IB exam, this means you would not be able to get in to university. The problem for me is, as it follows; all universities that I have applied to rejected me. Now that gave a useless feeling, a feeling of ultimate depression. Also I have not discussed this with anyone- but would suicide help to solve the problem? Revision is not going well at all- takes incredibly a long time to work through the past papers. I considering to get out of this misery. My talent is in art however my goal was to study in university, and gain a proper job. Not art. Having discussed this with my parents they would never understand. I strongly believe I am prepared a…
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Hello IB survivers I was wondering if anyone of you guys managed to get some overall grade boundaries from their coordinators, I managed to to get History SL route 2 peacemaking ones, so whoever has some grade boundaries for may 2012 examinations, please place them here for the general benefit and future reference (for IB students practicing past papers etc) History SL Route 2-Peacemaking Overall grade boundaries 1:0-10 2:11-23 3:24-32 4:33-43 5:44-54 6:55-65 7:66-100 Hope we manage to get the grade boundaries for all IB subjects ( or the most popular at least)
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Ive completed two years of Pre-IB and im in my first year of the Actual IB program. Im contemplating dropping out cause i dont think i will be receiving the amount of benefits i should based on all the work and the difficulty level. is this program really worth it? i dont know what the best decision is so someone please help me.
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Hey guys, this has been vexing me for quite a bit of time now. Can anyone give me the specifics of how the IBO markers arrive at your final numerical mark on the scale of 1 - 7? I know that this mark is based on a bell-curved scale of marks from IB students everywhere. However, what I'm really confused about is how they factor in the internal assessment. I'm aware that the IA and the EA both bear different weightings. However, is the IA also marked on a bell-curved scale (based on global results)? I'm particularly perplexed about the Language B internal assessment. I'm aware that it's worth 30% of the grade but at my school, we have one oral exam worth 15% and three oral …
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Does anyone know where I can find my candidate number? I'm kind of in need of it before next Wednesday. I can't ask my teachers or anything because Monday and Tuesday are holidays. On the bright side...I need these numbers for my completed essay.
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I heard you can get a bilingual diploma in IB... I was wondering how though because everyone takes an A1 course and an A2 course so shouldn't everyone get a bilingual diploma or is a bilingual diploma for people taking two A1 courses? I know it's a stupid question but it's been annoying me!
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The title says it all. I know what it stands for: Internal Assessments, but I don't know or understand what you do for them? I'm taking full IB diploma next year.
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What subjects, from your personal experience, are the hardest to get a 7 in? What's your hardest subject you're taking?
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So I just got my results in earlier today, and it is absolutely heart wrenching. I always had trouble doing tests in exam conditions. I am a massive procrastinator and just can't concentrate. I always get distracted by the simplest of things. I do Film HL, Human Factors Design HL, Philosophy HL, Chinese B SL, Maths SL, and Eng Lang SL. I got a 4 on every subject in SL and in two of my HL subjects... But I got a 3 in Philosophy. So I got a 23 + 1 from the TOK/EE. So I have a 24 in IB. But because my HL subjects add up to 11 and not 12. I failed my IB Diploma, and will not receive it. The university I applied to only needs 24 marks minimum, and a 4 in 2 HL subj…
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Does anyone know a website or has some examples of the English HL written assignment that I can see? It would really be helpful. Thanks =)
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I had a friend tell my worrying self that if I apply to a university and I am not awarded a diploma due to getting a 1 in maths (but get 5 certificates for the others exceeding 24 points) then they shouldn't worry too much and let me in. This would be great because I'm having my exams at the moment and I look set to get a 1 in maths because of bad internal marks and general incompetence with maths. The university I am looking at, for IB requirements it states 24 points. I don't want to contact them now and ask about letting someone in who failed the diploma just in case I get a negative answer in the middle of my exams, so I want to ask here first for people's experiences…
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Hello, I am 16 years old and just moved to Dubai this summer. I started the first year of the IB Diploma Programme in September, over here. I am struggling at school because of the new environment. The class sizes are huge, and I'm having problems settling in, even though it's been two months since school started. I spoke to my parents about changing schools, and they were extremely understanding, even though I was the one who chose to go to this school. However, we looked for every possible IB school in Dubai, and were unsuccessful. Either the schools didn't offer the subjects I wanted to take, The class sizes were too big there as well, or they weren't taking anymore st…
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From the look of it, the predicted grades are not that reliable ("A guy from my school was predicted 41 but got 27. Bummer." vs. "Predicted 6 but got 7 in actual"). If so, what's the point of them? How are they used to improve your actual marks? I'm already on the fence of doing IB and the thought of IB marks potentially messing up my chance of IB worries me.
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I'm forecasted for IB Diploma next year. What do you think are the hardest and easiest classes? Here is planned schedule for now: English A1 HL Biology HL History HL Math SL Theatre SL Spanish SL Extended essay topic would likely be on the cultural influence of the Wizard of Oz. CAS is easily taken care of (swim team, acting, zoo volunteering). Is this too unrealistic, in your opinion? What did you find to be the hardest and easiest classes?
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Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post those or not but anyway, I need some help. I'm compiling all my IAs now and I was wondering whether you could tell me about the format in which our IAs should be submitted. By this I mean what font, size and all that kind of stuff. You can see what subjects I do below and please let me know if it's different for every subject. Thanks, Mishi
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For example, let's suppose that the grade boundaries (overall) for physics HL are as follows; 7: 71-1006: 60-705: 50-594: 40-493: 29-392: 17-281: 0-16 Let's suppose that a student writes a high 6 on paper 1 (which is most likely around 75%, considering that the grade boundaries for pp1 are higher) and a 7 on paper 2 (72% for example). Does the student still receive a 7, as the average grade exceeds the 7 on the overall grade boundaries, or will he receive a 6 because he wrote a 6 on pp1? tl;dr: Is the average of all of the papers taken and compared to the overall grade boundaries or is the lowest grade of all the papers taken for the final grade?
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Hello, I have just gotten my grade breakdown, and my Paper 1 and Paper 2 were disappointing but my IA and WL are good. I ended up with a 6 which was a 76% and 7 starts from 78%. Here is my breakdown: IA: 24 P1: 18 P2: 14 WL: 20 (Yeah i was pretty happy about the world Lit! )
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How does IB check for plagiarism? Is it still turnitin? I used Write Check to see if my EE has plagiarism or not, and it said it's fine.. is this okay?
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Is November's exams harder than May's Exams?
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It's no secret that the IB comes up with different variants of the papers so that everyone gets a fair shot at a good grade. (Edit: sorry! Head's gone all fuzzy!) But what I find bewildering is the whole thing about the IB in May is said to be easier than the November session. It's something that's been floating around my school for awhile, but I never had the chance to find out for myself.Now I'm not one to believe these kind of stuff, after all, the grade boundaries would shift accordingly, but this is something I experienced when I did the IGCSEs too. The May session is significantly easier than the November ones and it's ridiculous how obvious it is - the same questio…
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Guys you did it, now we finished an important step in our life. I would like to say congratulation for those who achieved the full diploma and for those who did not make it, it is not the end of the world. My supervisor give me my results, and my reaction was that i felt happy (thanks god): Grade Subject MAY 2012 - ARABIC A1 SL in ARABIC 6 MAY 2012 - ENGLISH B HL in ENGLISH 6 MAY 2012 - BUS.& MAN. SL in ENGLISH 7 MAY 2012 - CHEMISTRY EE in ENGLISH A MAY 2012 - BIOLOGY HL in ENGLISH 7 MAY 2012 - CHEMISTRY HL in ENGLISH 7 MAY 2012 - MATHEMATICS SL in ENGLISH 7 MAY 2012 - THEORY KNOWL. TK in ENGLISH B Total 43 However my pr…
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Hi, so I'm in the first year of my IB, and when I started out, I realized that there wasn't (or that I couldn't find) any helpful tips or advice for IB students all in one place, and thus, decided to create this thread. I think it could really come in handy for ALL the students on this forum. So go ahead, post any helpful advice or tips you've learnt- both academically and socially. Here are some of mine: - Even if you have a super-huge-worth-75%-of-your-grade assignment due tomorrow, it really helps if you have some sort of control over the situation. Do not freak out- deadlines have been met before (under the most stressful of situations) and you can do it too. Breathe…
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This isn't about retaking exams after 6 months if you fail/do badly the first time you do them, but rather about sitting the exam after everyone else in the world has done it if there are exceptional circumstances for you not being able to sit the exam in the first place. A senior who graduated in 2007 recently told me that he was sick for a week in the middle of IB exams with severe food poisoning (he was throwing up and it wouldn't stop). He had to go to hospital, and missed his Chemistry Paper 3 exam. Even though he got a doctor's note explaining his circumstances, the IB didn't let him resit the exam that year. He ended up getting a 0 on the paper (obviously), which d…
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Since people were saying someone should post this in the SB and it appears that IB results are starting to come through... So post your results and reactions English A2 HL - 7 Finnish A1 HL - 6 History HL - 7 EE (History ) - A Economics SL - 6 Biology SL - 6 Mathematics SL - 7 ToK - B Reaction: Missed my predicted grades by two points and might go for remarks in Finnish or Econ... BUT it's all good, got my diploma, met my uni offer and I can finally call myself an IB alumnus and not think about IB ever again :D (Saying that... I might apply to tutor IB courses so......)
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Hi guys, i was wondering how to use the IB grades on a CV, does each subject count seperatly or together, school says it is all one qualification but surely i cant just write on my CV "IB x amount of points in total" so what do you think you would have to write?
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Hi, My Math SL teacher told us today that there exist to different sets of tests for each session of Math SL. Namely, this means that there is one test for timezone A and timezone B, so candidate's in e.g. America can't call Australian students beforehand. This was totally new information to me, so I'm curious to know is it the same for all subjects, and what the timezones are (what timezones are test A and B done in?).
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Hello! I have just started IB and I was wondering what some people did to get 7's and what school mark would correspond to a seven. How do teachers come up with a predicted mark? The first couple math tests have been hard and the class average has been really low. Should I be discouraged that I'm not getting 95%'s? I'm looking for a seven PREDICTED in all classes if possible. Thanks.
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