IB Heather

Well there's ibpapers.com,
angelfire.com (browse for the IB section),
texas instruments is great for math GDC directions,
historylearningsite.co.uk,
learnhistory.org.uk,
johndclare.net (the last three are for history),
ibmaths.com,
goto.glocalnet.net/ibweb/,

that's all I could think of right now!

Hope it helped

freeexampapers.com!
has some ib papers =)

The ones listed above, plus:

Chemistry:

• Oxford Chemistry Study Guide - Geoff Neuss
  
• ibchem.com

Economics:

• Oxford Economics Study Guide/Course Companion (I used both because I found some details in the companion course that weren't mentioned in the study guide, however, if you have to choose between either go for the Study Guide.)
  
• http://tutor2u.net/e...otes/index.html

The links section at the top of the page has, guess what, links to the best and the most useful IB revision sites: http://www.ibsurvival.com/links/

ITGS isn't Group 6. It's Group 3, I believe, with the other individuals & societies courses.
Your 6th IB course can be from Group 6 or it can be a course from any of the other five groups, if that makes sense.

I'm not taking ITGS, so I can't comment on that part. However most people take 3 HL and 3 SL courses.
Some do take 4 HLs, but it's really hard. Also math at HL is known to be very difficult. Taking four HLs with math as one of them is going to be even tougher.
There's a difference between "This is tough, but I can rise to the challenge" and "This is tough, and I might be able to do it, but it will cost too much, including time and happiness." I'm only saying that because for some people [and I'm guilty of this], saying that something is hard is like throwing a gauntlet down.

If you're going to apply to a US university, then credit from AP/IB classes might be really important to you. Out of the colleges that accept IB credit, the majority only accept them for HL courses. The reason that my school doesn't offer math at HL is because there's not a reason to. We just take the AP Calc AB or BC exam and get the credit that way. So I'm taking/have taken
Spanish SL [got a good IB grade and a bad AP one--no college credit],
Physics SL [got an okay IB grade and a good AP grade--got college credit for Phys B and I'll take Physics C exams this May.]
English HL,
Bio HL [and I'm going to take the AP exam for this class... maybe],
History HL [there's no way I can pass an AP exam for this because we haven't covered the same exact material or practiced with the format],
Math SL [taking the Calc BC exam next month. Most people get good grades on the exam because my teacher's amazing]

I hope that helped. I also took AP Chem during my 11th grade year and can get college credit.

EEs are graded by examiners in some other country, and you get the grade with your IB score in july.

Your score out of 45 is for 6 subjects, usually 3 at higher level and 3 at standard level. For each subject you get a grade out of 7, so 6 x 7 is 42 points in all. The last three points are given as a combination of your Extended Essay and TOK overall scores; any combination of A and B or better will give you a 3.
I wouldn't worry about university admissions. Unlike A-levels and APs, the IB is not subject to inflation; i.e. the percentage of students achieving 7s is more or less constant. Usually its very low as well, the IB is challenging, but it's great for university admissions. I think most colleges don't realize exactly how great it is sometimes. After a year in IB economics its viable to do the AP microeconomics without much studying; or English Lit. after a year of English HL.

The way most colleges, at least in the UK, determine your chances of getting in is based on your predicted IB scores. In february or so of your second year you'll be taking 'mock' exams for all your subjects; based on the grade you get here your teachers will predict a final IB score. Then you send your application with SAT scores, IB predicted grades, etc. etc. In fact for Oxbridge you apply in October, but still based on grades predicted by your teachers. The date isn't so important.
The way I understand it is with American universities, you'll get accepted by April 1st. If you're in to a great college you might not even have to do well on our exams, and for some people, the mocks are actually more important than the finals. In the UK it's a little different - usually you get an offer based on your predicted grades, to get for example 36 on your IB diploma or a 665 or something in your higher level classes.

Hope that helped a little,

good luck with your IB!

dmastt, on Dec 14 2008, 08:11 PM, said:

Given that you don't get an E for either TOK and your EE.

dmastt, on Dec 14 2008, 08:11 PM, said:

All ab initio languages and math studies can only be taken at SL.

dmastt, on Dec 14 2008, 08:11 PM, said:

Umm... If you wanna put it that way, sure.

I dont want to be mean , but it's a survey task to understand what its's about. Higher level subjects= more work , this is true in all subjects, though in the science subjects there are LOADS of extra work it you go HL classes. You will need 24 points to get your diploma, these points are gathered by 6 subjects, you can either do 3 sl and 3 hl or 4 hl and 2 sl . I would say it is much more IB doing four HL than three. You need to feel the stress , otherwise you will never love your IB diploma  i think. Hope you understand more now after this short breef.....