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That you're a ****. And I agree with fratdude...you'de make a gay porno.

found them:

http://www.sevenoaks...daries 2010.pdf

i think you guys should study. it really does wonders.

Grumps, on Apr 25, 2010 - 06:57, said:

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If you have any sort of visual memory at all, I really suggest 'maps'. Draw everything out in pictures. You won't remember it for long, but you can remember a tonne of stuff that way, especially if you link them all together. If, in the exam, you are able to sit there and visualise a page -- not like a photographic memory, but just that you know there was a ship in the top right corner, a castle in the middle and little stick people running away or something, you can attach a lot of information to that and answer your history question

Maybe a little bit of a silly example, but I find this extremely valuable for sciences in particular Certainly for things like memorising Photosynthesis and Respiration for HL Biology, this worked a treat for me. Still does for memorising biochemistry!

Also, I would never just read things. If learning's not active, you're wasting your time because as somebody just said, it's in your mind for only as long as you're reading the words on the page. Write it down as you read over it again, sit and quiz yourself to think back the last thing you read, draw a picture of it, say it out loud to yourself and chant it.. whatever. With sciences I like to try and imagine it happening like an animation in my mind, especially for Biology. Whatever technique works for you, but absolutely don't just read over things passively.

A final point: I read once that the way to remember everything is to link it all together via as many different 'routes' as possible. This is, in my opinion, very true. So if something uses ATP or a particular mechanism, always think: what else do I know which does this? 'cause chances are you're going to remember one or the other, and then you can use whichever one you remember to fill in the blanks of whichever one you forget. Linking things in together reenforces your knowledge in a major way.

I think you can write pretty much anything as long as you have evidence, and you say you do so I guess nothing to worry about!

Paper 2 is all about comparing and you have to choose a question. So it depends on what question you get and how you can bring that theme up. However you have found a similarity between the two and using that common murder theme, you can compare the way each author builds up to the murder or the motives. However, I'll say it again that it depends on the question and what the question asks you to do. It might ask to compare setting or characters or motives or anything really.

When you're preparing for the exam:

• Make sure you read each book carefully, at least once, if not twice. You'll keep discovering points each time you read the book.
  
• List all the motifs and key events in the book.
  
• Read the Sparknote/Cliffnotes for the book and any other internet resource, they'll have things that you'll miss. Obviously it won't matter if the review's in English or whatever.
  
• Try and write down key quotes to remember, or at least remember the jist of the quote so that you can refer to it in your essay.
  
• Make a Character Sketch for the main characters or read it online, again, it might have something that you miss out in your revision.
  
• Make sure you understand the context of the novel, it helps knowing when in history you've written it or the author's motive behind the novel.
  
• As said, try to find the Author's motive behind writing the works, it helps when you're doing plays like the Crucible which was based on McCarthyism.
  
• Anything else you remember that I've missed out.
  
• It helps to know every minute detail so that you can impress the examiner with your attention to detail and your ability to incorporate all the details into your essay.
  
• There really is no other way to prepare for a Paper 2.

All 3 of my Physics teachers bar maybe 1 in IB were awful, so I know where you're coming from. I hated Physics towards the end of IB, having chosen it over Biology which could've given me the higher grade but I digress.

This is a useful site for Phys: http://www.saburchil...physics_hp.html

http://xmltwo.ibo.or.../chapter/1.html

Handbook of procedure for the Diploma Programme.

Enjoy!

Yes you can definitely do it.

The key is to practice. Get your hands on all the past papers you have and do ALL of them. When I was studying for my maths SL exam, I did every single paper from 1998-2006, May AND November sessions (I wrote the May 2007 math SL exam). You'll see that there's a trend to the questions they ask you and lots of them are similar/repeated because there's so much from the syllabus that they can ask.

Familiarize yourself with the syllabus and make sure you know and understand everything on it, if you don't, get a tutor/ask your teacher/ask a friend. I had the IB course syllabus as my maths textbook but get the study guide or course companion, those are usually helpful. If you need an another "textbook" type book, then get the course companion. If you need just something that will summarize all the important key concepts, then get the study guide.

hey every1.............i need help wid chem EE topic??? wat wud be a gud option for choosing a gud research question in a chemistry extended essay!!! need help desperately plz help all guys!!! is der ne1 ova here who is doing their EE in chemistry at the moment?!?!

Think of the IB as all of the mental conditioning for academics you'll ever need. I got my results today and it's in fact a very great feeling. I don't think anything at all went perfectly and I fought for every mark.

For those who tried their hardest, they got the most out of it. You can pick up self-organisation and time management skills that will be a great help in uni (or I hope) and success in future careers. You also learn how to drop everything when you're under time pressure and go for it. Something that I really picked up from this program is confidence, confidence in my future self to be able to tackle (almost) anything.

If you slack off, you're not going to get as much out of it. You take out of it what you put in. If you're not motivated to succeed, or don't want to succeed, don't do it.

The IB is far from easy. It is tough, it is awful, it is mentally draining, especially if you don't put the hard work in early enough. It is physically exhausting and it will make you feel at one of your lowest points, but what you gain and how you feel, your very self-satisfaction is the most rewarding.

I feel a heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I do not regret doing the IB at all.

To supplement to Graeme's post:

Most experienced users (yes, the VIP kind) know I usually answer something mean to posts like these. This time, all I can say is

:--------------------------------------------D.

Have a nice life,
deissi

hi im in my final yr for IB n currently struggling with UNI applications, my school does not provide a councellor or any help regarding, m yet wondering if they'll even give me my transcripts!!!! please help me!!

Just to clarify what Sandwich said...
Since IB doesn't care about what format you're using, your job is to make whatever you're doing consistent. Your school may have other rules, but IB doesn't.

So for your bibliography, it doesn't matter. I organize it in alphabetical order of the author's last name.

For footnotes, I guess you could put the author's name in the footnote to show that the quote is by that author. And when you're introducing the quote, I would go ahead and say According to ____, "..."¹ but if you're paraphrasing what an author said, you might say Others think this is too romanticized....², where the ¹ and ² are referencing the footnotes.

I agree with Sandwich here: "If you're unsure of anything, ask somebody, and if they don't know the answer, just go for whatever fits in best with your other references and whatever contains all the information you consider essential"