Keshuv19 Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) Hey guys can you please explain to me the difference between TZ1 and TZ2?TZ = time zone right?Is there a difference in terms of questions????thanks a lot Edited June 30, 2013 by Sandwich Please type words out in full. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezak Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 Yes, different tests for different time zones. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keshuv19 Posted June 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 how is tz2 compared to tz1? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwich Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 They should be of comparable difficulty. The only reason for different time zone papers is to stop people from one time zone sharing the contents of their papers with the next time zone. For subjects with very few people sitting the exam every year such as Philosophy, there may only be one timezone (T0). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-._._.- Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 For subjects with very few people sitting the exam every year such as Philosophy, there may only be one timezone (T0).TZ0 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmi Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 Time zone 1 (TZ1) is the Americas, and time zone 2 (TZ2) is the rest of the world I believe. As stated above, time zone 0 (TZ0) is when there isn't a big demand for a certain subject and there aren't enough people taking it to warrant two separate exams. These are usually in less-common subjects and in some of the November exams. Neither paper should be more difficult than the other, but to compensate for these, there will be different grade boundaries for each paper. The grade boundaries, however, probably won't differ by more than a few points at the most unless something drastic happened and everyone failed or did extremely well. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TykeDragon Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 About 6 hours. TZ1 = America, TZ2 = Europe. IB attempts to make the papers roughly of equal difficulty for fairness, but grade boundaries are separate between the two I believe, in case one IS easier/harder. Not sure if outside of Europe is TZ2 as well though... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yii yann Posted July 1, 2013 Report Share Posted July 1, 2013 Singapore (and I'm assuming the rest of Asia) is TZ2 also. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.