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The point of my graduation? Getting a couple of trophies and a certificate. That's all that it was for me, and probably the chance to say a hurried goodbye to everyone; I didn't see most of them again

We also wore stupid graduation blue gowns that didn't even fit in well with our school uniform of polos and slacks, most of us looked unkempt and dishevelled, there were only a bunch (about 15) of us and well, I'd have rather done it your way to be honest.

It holds no meaning for me, sure we finish school and all that, and it's probably a rite of passage for most, but it's not significant enough to be made an event. In the end, it's the graduation from university that counts the most because that signals the end of life in academia, the end of a sheltered life and entry into the real world.

I suppose it means a lot to the Americans because completion of High School is a big accomplishment for them? (Don't know why, any plonker can finish the American version of secondary school) Or the fact that some people choose not to attend university.

Well I'll start by saying that I'm an Irish Catholic who has never lived in an Arabic country in my life. ( Although I did live in Belgium and there are a lot of Moroccan Muslims living there) I find Islam very interesting and would love to learn about it properly. I find it interesting that it is so different from Catholicism in that it is far more regimented. I also recently have started to find the Arabic language really interesting. My Grandfather taught in a school in Iraq after the Second World War so i was brought up on stories from the middle east with tornadoes in the deserts and scorpions etc.. Which is quite exotic for a european boy. And recently I moved to Australia and whenever we fly back to Europe we fly Etihad. This sparked my interest again I have been learning progressively more and more through friends and reading. I am appalled when i hear people saying things like " they're all f***ing terrorists" ( which seems to happen a lot in Australia) or claiming that the hi-jab is a breach of women's rights. I point them to the nearest nunnery and ask them if they think that their clothes too are against immoral?

So I guess on the whole I find the Middle-East fascinating and am always shocked by the racist (and ignorant) opinions people seem to have of it today.

I use it and I have to say I love it. Not because I am self-centered or anything like that. I use it as personal blog. If there is ever a moment I found funny or memorable or if something happened that I thought I should remember, I whip out my phone and send it to Twitter. It's usually a quote someone said or something like "I had the most incredible day with my friends. We did blah, blah, blah.", so one day I can look back at it and remember that day. I also like that it's not shown to everyone like how a status on Facebook is. Oh and there's not ONLY celebrities that use Twitter. News channels and even the White House in the U.S uses Twitter. I get text alerts from CNN breaking news everyday if anything major happens. Also when the Haiti earthquake happened, lots of people used Twitter to spread the word about making donations. I definitely think, IMO that Twitter is worth using.

Oh and to reply about how everyone can Twitter-stalk you whereas on Facebook it's only your friends: not necessarily. On Facebook if you don't set your security up, other people can still see your Wall, Pictures, Info, everything. Just like Facebook, you can set your security on Twitter so that your profile is off limits to others and you have to approve people following you before they can. It's all a matter of what you do to your account.

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Nice, I was wondering what HP meant but then it struck me lol.

I suppose History is one of those courses that are easy to pass but hard to get a 7 in.

Thermal equilibrium means that two bodies are of the same temperature, yes, but they must be in contact as well. If you just take two random objects that happen to be in the same temperature then they're not in thermal equilibrium with each other, they're just two bodies with the same temperature. Thermal equilibrium comes about when two bodies are in contact with each other and the temperature flows from the hotter body to the colder one until their temperatures are stable ie in equilibrium.

But guys don't sweat it, it's just one question from thirty!!

kk so i saw this game on another forum and i thought why don't we have it here, soo what you do is u ban the person who posted last(so the person above u) for srupid reasons or things like that, so the next person would ban me.

ex.
kid1- banned for posting
Kid2- banned for being online (i know, really stupid examples)

those pics are pretty cool, lol love the imaginary friend one

PC vs. MAC



Disclaimer: I do not endorse whatever political statement was said above w/ McCain and Obama, although idk what the statement is even saying lol

It should be B. Just thinking about how the salt was made (for ex. strong base + weak acid so the salt will result in a more basic solution ie. high pH) is the easiest and quickest way to answer salt hydrolysis questions.

zakuropanda, on May 14, 2010 - 17:58, said:

You had aberrations? Oh gosh, I'm so glad I was TZ2, I hate that stuff

wow. I think many people are usually divided into 2 extremes right here

Megacrap VS uber great...

I think that it doesn't have to be a whole lot different than the life of a non-IB student most of the time, but the key thing is time management. It's still possible to do IB and still do many sports, have jobs, hang out with friends or family, or do other extracurricular activities at the same time. Of course, there are those times when everything is due at the same time, or when you have to expand your boundaries because of CAS, and that can be challenging, but on the whole I'd have rather gone through IB, taking the challenges and making high school interesting, than have gone through high school normally and have had a less exciting few years.

To summarise: you take 6 subjects (from the different sections) for 2 years, write an Extended Essay, do 150 hours of CAS and sit through TOK lessons enough to do your presentation/write your TOK essay. Throughout this time you do pieces of coursework for different subjects. Then you are examined in all 6 subjects over the course of 2 weeks at the end of your course; for the N. hemisphere this is in May, for the S. hemisphere this is in November.

Some schools split it up to make it easier and you are examined in some subjects in year 1 and some in year 2.

Certificates mean you're not taking the full diploma -- you don't have to do 6 subjects, don't have to do subjects from each of the 'areas', don't have to do CAS, don't have to do an EE and don't have to do TOK. On the other hand, many Universities ask for the diploma as part of their minimum requirements, so few people do certificates and it's common to do the diploma. To pass the diploma there are a series of requirements including not failing TOK/EE, doing CAS and getting a minimum mark of 24 with a minimum of 12 points split between your HL subjects. There are some other requirements, but most people worry most about those two!

Each subject is graded out of 7 to generate these points, so 6 x 7 means a maximum of 42 points from your subjects. The maximum score is 45 -- this is achieved by adding on 3 bonus points which come from completion of TOK/EE to different levels. If you do well in both, you get 3 points, if you do badly in one but well in the other, 2 points, and badly in both is 1 point aaaand it's slightly more complicated but you get the picture. No points are awarded for CAS, it's just considered a minimum requirement which you either meet or fail to meet.

Hope that roughly answers your question.

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 2, Paper 3) and then you'll see your total percentage. Included in the calculator are the grade boundaries for each subject (using the Nov 2008 boundaries, because those are the ones I had available) so you can see what your IB grade is according to the points you entered.

This is also particularly useful for when your IB grades have already come out and you then receive your component grades. You can enter your component grades to see how close you are to a grade boundary to see if its worth an appeal or not. Thanks to this I saw that I was 3 points away from a 7 in Spanish A1 SL, so I appealed and I got a grade change (although I wasn't so lucky with English).

Download the attachment at the bottom of this post.

Understanding the excel calculator
After each subject there are 5 rows.
Row 1: The components. There is a series of columns with the components AND the maximum points for each component.
Row 2: Points. This is where you input the numbers. ONLY edit this row. Do NOT change the other rows..
Row 3: After you enter the points, this row will change to show you the percentage for each component.
Row 4: The weighting. This is just so you can know the weighting for each component. DO NOT EDIT THIS ROW. They are needed for the excel formulae.
Row 5: Your weighted percentage for each component. The last column in this row will give you your FINAL percentage. Compare this final percentage to the grade boundaries to find out your IB grade.

Other stuff to remember
In the Group 1 Languages, if you are doing HL, then you have to get an average between your 2 world literature assignments if you want to input the score. For both HL and SL, the "Internal Assessment" component refers to your Oral Presentation and Oral Commentary, each one with maximum points 30. You have to add both together to get a maximum score of 60, which is what I've used in the calculator.

Subjects included:
TOK and Extended Essay

GROUP 1:
Arabic A1 HL/SL
English A1 HL/SL
Spanish A1 HL/SL

GROUP 2:
English A2 HL/SL

GROUP 3:
Biology HL
Chemistry HL
Physics HL

GROUP 4:
Economics HL/SL
Geography HL/SL
History HL/SL
Psychology HL/SL

GROUP 5:
Computer Science HL/SL
Mathematics HL/SL

If a subject you're doing is not included
If you want me to add a subject (and I have no doubt you will, because I am missing a LOT of subjects many people do) then I need you to post here with the following information:

- Name of subject
- Names of all the components
- Maximum points for each component
- Weighting for each component.

I really need Bio, Chem and Physics SL =(

If you can't find the grade boundaries then don't worry, but it would be very helpful if you do. They do not have to be of November 2008.

If you find anything wrong, let me know and I'll change it.