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I'm really scared that my paper 2 essay for Spanish SL won't get graded because I forgot to do the weird numbering thing on the side of the answer booklet to signify which question I answered. If you read my essay it was obvious which question I chose and I did write the number of the question on my cover sheet. My coordinator said it SHOULD be fine as many students probably forget also. I've read around that all papers, including the cover sheet, will be scanned with your answers. So does this mean I should be fine? I mean this is my diploma on the line.
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I found this year maths HL exam quite difficult, is it just me or did everyone else find it difficult too?
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So since 24 hrs is up, how did everyone find P1 and P2? I found P1 relatively good but I hated that text regarding discrimination. I loved P2, and I answered sante and section B. What about you?
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how did you guys find it?? i didnt have enough time and wrote the last question in bullet points :// but what did you put for the job empowerment, motivation question? i felt like i was repeating myself
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Hey I was just wondering what happens if you filled out your cover sheet wrong? For example on Biology paper 2 I put on my cover sheet that I answered Section B # 5 & 6, but I forgot to write that for section A I answered "All". Will IBO not grade my work because of it?
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So guys how did you find it??
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I have no idea how many of you do comp science, but how did it go? I found it ok., I guess. Section A could have been better, they asked the most obscure definitions imo (the syllabus mentions autonomous agents once, which I didn't pick up on) and was very, very different from the specimen. No dry run or truth tables either, both of which I was hoping to score easy marks on. I guess it went ok though, bsed a lot though so I'm not sure if I'll get full marks on the questions I answered How did you guys feel about the queue question? I felt so lost, I had no idea what they wanted me to construct pseudocode of. I eventually figured I might as well make two methods (instead…
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What did you guys think of the Euro History Exam this year? I'm TZ2 and I'm pretty scared....
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I'm not sure if this is legal or not, but it's May 20th 6:30PM here, and I took the exam on May 19th 8:00AM. So 24 hours are up I guess? Please lock this thread if it isn't. Anyhow, how was it?
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A lot of us thought that the Physics HL paper 2 (TZ2) was way harder than previous years....how did it go for you?
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What did everyone think of this paper? I think it was a good start! I was quite happy with the essay question; did the one on rapid population growth being the main cause of soil degradation and loss of biodiversity. I'm just glad that all the core content is finished and done with!
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Will my answers being ignored????? I don't want to lose marks but got no time to copy my answer to the first page.... Thankss!
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Discussion ----- How did it go?] What did you mention in question 4?
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I found paper 2 quite difficult (to an extent) especially the first question. What do you think about the rest of the exam? For section B I chose the kinetics and organic chemistry questions (6 & 7), which went well.
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My teacher said it would be fine to answer the questions in Java, but, in the SL Paper 1 I just took, it specifically asked for pseudocode. I tried my best to follow the notation of pseudocode on the sheet, but I think I slipped into Java when I was writing the for loops. I'm taking Paper 2 tomorrow, and I was wondering if writing in pseudocode is an absolute must?
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So for the deer question, they said that t=1 for Jan 1st 2014 and t was in months. I assumed that t was in days (didn't read the question properly) so I counted ALL the way till May 1st 2014 and I got 121 days. My steps were right and I would have gotten the right answer if I used t=5 instead of using t=121. Will IB give me Error Carried Forward or will I lose 8 marks? :/
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Hello everyone! This may seem a little strange, but i was in a hurry when i was solving my math SL paper two exam, and next to every question I used the calculator in i wrote "using GDP" instead of GDC (graphic display calculator) I am aware that this is somewhat weird/funny, but im really worried that the examiners will knock points off my exam for it. What do you guys think? best of luck to all of youuu
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Hey guys how did you find the maths Hl paper 1? It was more difficult than I expected! I didn't know what was about the last question, the one about the arctanx etc.
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Fairly easy, wasn't it? After Paper 1- it was definitely a relief! Just hope the boundaries don't go too high. I'm expecting 80 on 120 (couldn't finish the paper). What are you expecting?
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How was it for you? In my opinion - the theoretical part was fine, but algorithms... I did only one.
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Thoughts and comments so far? I think it was really hard.
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Hey guys, I made a really stupid mistake on my History paper 3 exam. I did the question on the impact of WW1 on the Feb/March Russian Revolution (Im TZ2) but I made a maaaassive mistake. Instead of writing about the Feb Revolution, I wrote about the October one. A few things may be relevant but probably about half the history on my essay is wrong Will I get a 0? Or will the examiner at least give me some marks on skill. If the essay had been on the Oct revolution, I would have actually scored quite well, I believe! I can't believe i made such a stupid mistake By the time I realized, it was too late to do anything about it.
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I just realised that I wrote the wrong numbers of 0 for calculation question....i wrote 000000 (six 0s)... I remembered the unit is billion, i wrote the answer both in billion and in number.... Will I lose marks??? Thanks.. ANY ONE REMBMBER WHAT IS THE UNIT OF THE FIRST QUESTION IN Q2? MILLION OR BILLION???
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Those PGFs screwed me over, but the first questions were quite easy, I thought. How did it go for you guys?
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hey guys , didnt u find paper 1 very hard? the last question with the 3 complex series was so weird! paper 2 wayy better from what ive been hearing, i think math has been hard in generally hopefully they will lower the grade boundaries for this year does every timezone exam have different boundaries or is it math hl as a whole?
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What did you guys think about paper 2?? So many probability questions! Lets discuss some answers!
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How did the paper 1 math exam go for you guys?
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What did you think of paper 2 ? I found it quite easy
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Okay, I'm a little panicked right now. We took the history paper 2 exam today, and I forgot that we're only supposed to answer questions from the topics selected by our schools. So instead of answering a question from topic 3, as I was supposed to, I answered one from topic 2. Does IB have enough of a sense of humor that it will give me partial credit even though I answered for the wrong topic? Or am I basically screwed now? Moderator Notice: DO NOT discuss the contents of this exam until 18:00 GMT on 15/5/2014 (Thursday), general comments relating to the technical exam error only please.
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So how did it go ? And what options did you choose? I wasn't particularly happy when I saw Bohr shift in option H but beyond that I think it was relatively easy.
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So, what were your thoughts? What did you pick, prose or poetry?
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How did you guys think about the paper? I found the difficulty of the questions fairly doable except maybe a couple of them. But I had a trouble with managing time properly, so I ended up not answering to almost 25 marks. I'm confident about other 95 marks that I answered, though. :/
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Since all the exams are done and there are not many people doing philosophy, thought I'd start this topic. How was it? Do you think it was difficult? I thought Paper I was very challenging. Paper II was not that bad. I was doing Ethics of Authenticity and the question was about something I'd though about for a long time on a personal level. Paper III was extremely easy in my opinion. The text was readable, understandable. I was scared of this one the most but I'm quite confident about this one.
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How'd everyone find it?
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Did anyone get an answer for the part c of question 10? What value of k did you guys get?
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Hello! I figured I'd start this topic, since no one really talks about IB Chinese A online fsr. I took IBSL CHinese A Language & Literature, but HL people can also contribute their thoughts on the exam here. So, what did you guys think? I thought that both Paper 1 and Paper 2 were okay...though I kind of ran out of time for P2 My analysis was also not as thorough as it could have been since I over-analyzed one work.
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Hey guys! I am pretty sure 24 hours are up. I dont really know how many people even do hindi as their Language B option and whethere many do it SL. Because thats what I did. It was my one an only exam in may as the rest are in November. Just wondering how everyone went? I think I did good in Paper 1 but most of paper 2 was a blur and I didnt understand most options! How did people go in hindi (Lang A, B, HL or SL) ? Also, does anyone know if many any non-indian background students/non-fluent speakers take Hindi as a subject? Have a great day, and hope you all do great in any other exams left to go!
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So, how did it go? In my opinion, compared to Paper 2, it was really easy and doable. Didn't expect that after the first two papers...
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So how did everyone find it??? For me, I thought it was fairly easy! No surprising questions, just content that our class knew. Our class did option C and E.
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Hello, sooo paper one and two, physics sl tz2 were hard right?! Admin note: please keep discussion to papers 1 and 2 only until after Friday 18:00GMT when Paper 3 may also be discussed.
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Sooooo what did everyone think? I almost died with happiness when I saw paper 1, as all I had studied in depth was Manchuria. Although I thought the OPVL on the cartoon was a bit odd, but I used a cartoon for my source analysis in my IA so I was glad I had an idea of how to go about it. Also the Paper 2 questions rocked! So lovely and clear and straightforward.
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How did you feel about th exam guys? Personally I think there were much more questions on plants than I expected.
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So since 24hrs is up, how did everyone find P2? I found the questions very creative by IB and way better than last years ..... I chose question 6 because i had soooo many to write about...
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So what did you guys think of the two papers? Hard? Easy?
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May 2014 Vietnamese Paper 1
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Hello all of my Vietnamese fellows! I just want to ask how you guys find paper 1? I am doing SL and I think that paper 1 prose is quite similar to last year paper.
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Hello everyone, so I'd like to ask you how you did on your Biology HL Exam so far (Paper 1 & 2 only). For me Paper 1 was not that easy, but it also wasn't hard. It contained some tricky questions where you thought that there might be 2 solutions which was really annoying for me. Paper 2 was really easy and I didn't expect it to be that easy. I was really happy with the Section B questions and I answered the first two! (Dunno if I am allowed to state the questions yet...) SO what are your opinions about the exam? Would like to know how you did
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So was it just me that found these two papers extremely difficult compared to the previous years or was IB being a bitch? If the latter, tell me to get my hopes up for the 7 boundary. P3 was awesome.
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Hello fellow ESSists! How was your paper 1 and 2? I personally found paper 1 relatively easy although the nitrogen cycle question was a nightmare! Paper 2 was much more challenging, in my opinion, especially the essay questions. But I ended up doing Q2 and Q3 for the essay questions. How about you guys? EDIT: It seems that for Paper 1, most people struggled with the nitrogen cycle, so I hope the examiners loosen up the boundaries a little bit and for Paper 2, most people chose to do Q2 cause of its relative feasibility in comparison to the other questions.
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What did you all think about the paper 1? Found it pretty hard and not at all what i expected, so atm just hoping for lower grade boundaries and that the other two papers will be easier
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Share your thoughts on the Economics HL exam of May 2014! I'm sure we are all somewhat paranoid about certain questions, so feel free to go into detail about a question you answered and hopefully someone who remembers will help you out. Good luck on your next exams!
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