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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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How did that paper go for everyone? I felt okay but I just realized that I may have forgotten to answer one question... For option G EM waves, I sort of remember seeing one question along the lines of "state two differences between laser and normal light", but I don't remember answering it. If it was actually there, I would have missed several (maybe a lot) of easy marks so I'm really worried... So for people who have done that paper & option, was a question like that on the test? Thanks, -ssy
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So 24 hrs is up, how did everyone feel about Arabic P1 yesterday? I felt it was easy to understand and also a fun topic
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Anyone found health option paper 2 somehow silly?
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Hey guys so when I took a multiple choice paper 1, it said to put Xs in the box for an answer in pencil. I put them in pencil but I didn't make them very dark, so does anyone know if the multiple choice answer sheets are mailed or scanned? I fear that if they are scanned my answers won't show up. Also, is there anything I can do at this point?!
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Hey! How was it? The text about Camilla Clark (or something like that) was quite tragic hahaha, but I found both papers pretty good. What do you think about the papers? Which type of text did you choose for paper 2?
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So How did Everyone do? I did Astro and EM waves. Astro was a bit harder than usual but overall not too bad and EM Waves was OK as well. So what did you guys think about it?
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Hey guys! So what do you think about paper 3? I think it was not that hard, I did Digital Technology and Astrophysics. There were some questions that I saw on past papers already for both options. For example, for astro the question about apparent magnitude.. What do you think about other options?
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How was it? I'm standard level. I picked the OK! magazine text. It was relatively easy to analyze, though the lack of "proper" language made it hard to identify too many literary features, etc. However, there was definitely a lot on context. In paper 2 most of my class picked the question on context, and challenging people's views. It's quite broad and allowed for a lot of relevant discussion. I ended up writing a lot on this paper. How much did you guys write?
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For the Paper One last monday English HL, how did everyone find it? Did you pick the prose, or the poetry called Better Days? I did Better Days, the poem. I'm not too sure how I did - what sort of thing did everyone write?
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I actually found the paper quite easy..
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Hey guys, how did you do on the economics sl exam? Do you think it was hard?
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It is a discussion schedule, not exam schedule. All the discussion about the exams has to be in the EXAM DISCUSSION forum, not in the subject forums. It is EXTREMELY important that you do not post those topics in any other forum as it will not be possible for us to properly moderate them. Thank you. The schedule below is for when you can begin discussing the exams. Morning exams are discussed after 13.00 (GMT time) Afternoon exams are discussed after 18.00 (GMT time) Tuesday, 6th of May Morning English A Literature HL paper 1 English A Literature SL paper 1 English A Language & Literature HL paper 1 English A Language & Literature SL paper 1 Literature &…
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November 2013 Exams
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Hi guys, I just wanted to ask about the general difficulty of the November 2013 Physics HL exams. In particular I am asking about paper 2. How was the difficulty of this exam? Be specific though in terms of the types of questions that were hard etc. thanks Neeraj
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How did you guys find it? P1 was of average difficulty for me, P2 started off with the 'wtf' feel cus of the iodine clock, but latter part was kind of manageable
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Hey guys! Since it's been 24 hours, how did everybody find it?
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What did everyone think of the exam? easy difficult?
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i believe we can now talk about the paper. How did you guys find paper 1 2 and 3? Geography has always been my weakest subject so i found it pretty hard
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How did everyone find the psychology HL papers this year?
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So did anyone else write french ab initio? If so, thoughts on paper 1? I thought it was incredibly easy compared to the previous years' paper 1s. Also, what about paper 2? I chose the email prompt for section A about planning a birthday party with friends and the diary entry for section B.
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How did you guys find paper 1 and 2? I found paper 2 really difficult
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Hey Everyone: I am prepping for my own school's december exams and would like to know if anyone remembers the questions from either SL Chem, HL Bio, HL Econ, or SL Math of Nov 2013 as this would be such a wonderful help. Thank you!
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Hello guys ! How did you find the exam in general? I hope we can discuss most of the papers now. Personally, i think i did a good job in Physics, B&M, and Chemistry to an extent. Math paper 2 and 3 were a challenge ! English was quite manageable.
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Now that more than 24 hours have passed (for paper 1 and 2), how did everyone find these two papers? I think Paper 1 was normal (although a little bit harder than past papers) but Paper 2 was considerably difficult.
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I'm guessing that the thought on everybody's minds is the apparent mistake in Paper 1... (please tell me I'm not alone in this). But other than this how did everyone find the exam? I thought Paper 2's questions weren't great, but weren't terrible either. The comprehension texts were relatively easy, but the questions were more difficult... So, what did you guys think?
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Hello I am just wondering, if I take a retake in a course where I got a 6 in May exams, and I get a 5 in the November exams, which grade will count, the highest or the lowest?
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So it has been 24 hours.... THOUGHTS? Most people at my school thought the papers were harder than may. Particularly as there was no theory of the firm on p1!!!! That was sneaky. And p3 much more difficult than May session Do you agree? Do you think the boundary will shift ?
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Math SL paper 1 1 2
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How did you all think it went? Personally fine until I got to the longer questions where 8 was very simple but 9 & 10 a bit challenging, but I don't remember it all perfectly either.
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So how did everyone did with ITGS!
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Does anyone do SL economics here? How did you guys find it? paper 1- I thought the questions were pretty easy! I was really happy with the questions, both micro and macro paper 2 - It was ok i guess? it wasn't too bad. I really want a 7 for eco but expecting a 6 if i didn't do so well in paper 2
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HI guys! so, what did you think of History Paper 3? I did the Americas option... I found it quite hard, especially because certain topics that were my favourites were so not what I expected (like Great Depression in Canada and effects in arts, I only studied GD in US and Latin America ). And well, in my opinion, Paper 1 and 2 were easier, what about for you?
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Unless my converting between GMT and AEST is terrible, I believe we're allowed to talk about English paper 1 now. So, did you pick prose or poetry? And what were your thoughts? I did poetry and talked about the poet's seeming reluctance to accept the new perspective on the inanimate objects as he kept trying to point out that he knew it was weird and was explicity referring to the fact that it was dignified. I also looked at the contrast between 'still life' art and what the poet was observing and suggested that the poem was critiquing the lifeless nature of 'still life' My final paragraph was a bit rushed towards the end, but other than that I think it went alright.
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Hey guys, I'm going to be doing my SL Anticipated Business Exams in the following week and want to know by how much do the grade boundaries vary for each exam session? And what influences the varying boundaries? I'm really freaked out as the boundary for a 7 in May 2013 was 74% but my teacher says they are likely to raise it for november 2013? Thanks
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Any HL maths students out there? What did you think of Paper 1 and Paper 2? I thought Paper 1 was pretty ok. I struggled a little bit on the 1st Part B question with the "stretch by a factor of 2" and the subsequent questions.. but hopefully I'll get follow through marks even if I got g(x) wrong.. and I'm a little unsure about the final part in the Part B matrix question.. but apart from that I think I managed to do everything else! I loved Paper 2 though! Very happy with it - I felt like it was a lot easier than the Nov 2012 papers! Did anyone else find it comparably easy? I feel really great about it because I managed to do every question with 15 minutes to spare (to c…
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So guys, how was it? I found it relatively easy, but I'm sure I'm still not getting any any higher grade than a 4. x)
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past the 24 hour mark since P2... How did you guys find both papers? P1 for me was manageable while P2 was slightly more demanding but doable until the last qn (13 if i remember) where i kinda panicked and messed it up quite a bit
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How did everyone find standard level physics paper 1 and 2? It's been 24 hours since then I think
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We can talk about paper 1 and 2 now, but hold off paper 3 until 6pm GMT time (that's 4am Saturday for Australian Eastern Standard Time) How did you find it? I was happy with paper 1 although there were 2 or 3 questions I know I got wrong like the em induction/direction of force in relation to Lenz's law one. Paper 2 was a bit harder. Section B was pretty good but I had some trouble with section A especially the 'show that...' question on latent heat I did questions 7 and 9 for section B. Which ones did you guys do?
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It is a discussion schedule, not exam schedule. All the discussion about the exams has to be in the EXAM DISCUSSION forum, not in the subject forums. It is EXTREMELY important that you do not post those topics in any other forum as it will not be possible for us to properly moderate them. Thank you. The schedule below is for when you can begin discussing the exams. Morning exams are discussed after 13.00 (GMT time) Afternoon exams are discussed after 18.00 (GMT time) Tuesday, 5th of November Morning English A Literature HL paper 1 English A Literature SL paper 1 English A Language & Literature HL paper 1 English A Language & Literature SL paper 1 Literature …
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Hey everyone! I hope everyone has been surviving their exams this week! I think it has been over the 24 hour period for the paper 1. So let's get some discussion! How do you think it was? Which questions did you choose?
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did you find it difficult?
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Hello I am retaking biology HL because I got a 4 in it, and I am not happy with that at all. What I wonder is, what IF, I get a 3 now in November, will that be my new grade or will still the "highest" = 4 counts? If the highest counts, does this apply for all courses? Take care
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Hey guys, we're allowed to discuss P1 now and P2 tomorrow! I loved the questions, they were brilliant, especially the complex numbers one in q.13. Initially, i must admit I didnT' really see how to answer them, but then it just struck me and BAM. Really high hopes on this paper, thinking about 113/120. (Got my stupid graph wrong because I forgot the minus at the second derivative. Jesus.) I found the question abotu the sequences werid, where you had to find r, which was only 6 marks. Because I felt it should have been more than 6 marks. Finding the pattern, simplifying, seeing that (r-1) is a factor of the 3rd degree polynomial, finding the other factor by identification,…
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So how did you guys think the exam went? Did you answer Copland or Mozart? Also does anyone happen to know what the last extract is called, I loved the Jazzy groove it had, reminded me of Esperanza Spalding. Been looking everywhere for it but I can't seem to find out what its called!
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Hey guys, I have a question regarding the English A Lang Lit Paper 2 in TZ1. I've written the paper in TZ2 and was wondering what kind of questions you had? Were there any on context dependency, timelessness or different interpretations? I am asking because I have to write the paper again for German next week and I would be interesting to know how the IB approaches the paper. Thanks in advance
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How did everyone find the exam, everyone I've spoken to found Paper 2 absolutely horrific! Thoughts?
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What did you all think about Spanish Paper 1? I took TZ1 and it was alright.
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Hello everyone, I am planning to sit for retakes this November (2013) but I don't really know how it works; does the retake mean I have to do ALL the marked work in a subject (i.e. including IAs, internal assessment, coursework, etc.) or does the retake only include the timed written exams taken in the school hall? It'd be great if you all could help me clear this up, as my coursework is fine, but my written exam scores need improving. Thanks!
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Paper 1 was okay. I thought paper 2 was pretty hard (at least compared to previous years). What did you think?
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