A Blog for all the IB Kids

hello im Sarah and I want all the ib kiddos to do good but mostly me.

[vin-studies]

Environmental Systems and Societies

ESS Syllabus + Guide

ESS Notes - mrgscience.com

Vocab - Quizlet (82 Terms)

Vocab - Quizlet (92 Terms)

Vocab - Quizlet (102 Terms)

Vocab - Quizlet (82 Terms)

Past Papers - TesTeach (2012-2016)

ESS Videos - Cara Marlowe

Crash Course - Thermodynamics

Crash Course - Entropy

Crash Course - Ecology Playlist

ESS INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

IA RUBRIC

Maths

Mathematical Studies Syllabus

Mathematical Studies Past Papers (ALL 2008 & 2009 PAPERS)

Mathematical Studies Past Papers (2013 PAPERS)

Mathematical Studies Formula Booklet

Math Standard Level Syllabus

Math Standard Level Past Papers (2013 PAPERS)

Math Standard Level Formula Booklet

Math Higher Level Syllabus

Math Higher Level Past Papers (2013 PAPERS)

Math Higher Level Formula Booklet

MATH INTERNAL ASSESMENTS 

Math Standard Level - VIDEOS

MATH VIDEOS - mathbff on Youtube

MATH VIDEOS - mathhelp.com on Youtube

MATH VIDEOS - khanacademy on Youtube

Business Management

businessmanagementib.com

BM Notes and Study Guides (HL&SL) - PrepScholar

Business Management HL Syllabus

BM Formula Booklet

4.3 SALES FORECASTING - Prezi (Deborah Kelly)

4.3 SALES FORECASTING - Bracken’s IB Business

My Explanation on Moving Averages (3-year and 4-year)

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

Exam Preparation

Economics

ECONOMICS IA ARTICLES

ECO VIDEOS - EconplusDal on Youtube

Economics Syllabus

Economics Past Papers (2008, 2009, 2014)

Economics Notes and Study Guides (HL&SL) - PrepScholar

Revision - TheIBEconomist

ECONOMICS INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

Economics Notes - ibstudy.wixsite

Biology

Crash Course PCB Masterpost

Biology Syllabus + Guide

Biology Past Papers (2008, 2010)

Vocab - Quizlet (88 Terms)

Notes - ibworld.me

BIOLOGY INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

Lab Format

IA Example

Bio Notes and Study Guides (HL&SL) - PrepScholar

Biology HL Sources

Psychology

Crash Course Psychology Playlist

Psychology Syllabus

Psychology Past Papers

ibpsychnotes,com

Notes

Notes, Essays, Articles 

Physics

Crash Course PCB Masterpost

Physics Syllabus + Guide

Physics Past Papers (2014)

Revision

Physics Formula Booklet

Physics Notes and Study Guides (HL&SL) - PrepScholar

Notes - ibphysicsstuff

PHYSICS INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

Lab Format

IA Example

IA Ideas

Vocab - Quizlet (247 Terms)

Vocab HL - Quizlet (124 Terms)

Chemistry

Crash Course PCB Masterpost

Chemistry Syllabus + Guide

Past Papers

Chemistry Formula Booklet

Chemistry Notes and Study Guides (HL&SL) - PrepScholar

Vocab HL - Quizlet (80 Terms)

Notes

CHEMISTRY INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

Lab Format

Sample IA

Notes - newburyparkhighschool

TOK

How to make a great TOK presentation - Pavel Ivanov, PhD

How to Structure a Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Presentation - IBMastery

STILL NEED A PRESENTATION TOPIC? 97 IDEAS - TOK Talks

Sample TOK Presentation 

Sample TOK Essay

TOK Essay Structure 

OTHERS

Sample Exam Papers - IBO.org

IB Study Tips

IBSurvival.com - Forums, Files

IB Studyblrs (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

aestudier

ibwater

fantastudy

chloestudiess

studyskies

wannabeproductive

theibgirls

A-Levels or IB? Masterpost

IB Memes

(please feel free to add more links in case I missed any!) 

[aestudier]

Just completed and submitted the final version of my Extended Essay !!! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° 

So I compiled lists of words that I found super super useful in making it easier for me to finish any essay !! Here is a masterpost of some sort with transition words + key vocabs grouped together for easy access as well as an IB IOC ‘cheat sheet’ I used for my english LAL orals last year (though most commentaries follow a similar structure so its generalisable) ~

Good luck with your essays !!!

… oops just realised I forgot to bullet point one of the lists 

[i-bees]

me: say it— i need to hear those three words

library database: Full Text Online

me, shedding tears: i love you too

[artemistudying]

shoutout to everyone going through a rough time right now if it’s to do with school, family, academics, friends, pets, people, the world or even yourself, it’s okay. it will be okay.  you will be okay. remember this is only temporary. you will come through. you can do this.  i believe in you. 

[officiallystudying]

thank you for this <3 i needed it today 

[i-bees]

http://www.markedbyteachers.com

So here's another ib source for you kiddos. They have an entire International Baccalaureate section it's pretty A1

[gogomrbrown]

https://openstaxcollege.org

FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things.

[ohthekorean-deactivated20160205]

stanfordetc freedomofscreech

[hagiographically]

THANK

[kaciart]

Just going to pop this here for you guys.

[englishlit-chic]

Important ☝🏼️

[studyybri-deactivated20161220]

REBLOGGING THE FUCK OUTTA THIS

[clusterbuck]

IB PEOPLE -- EE CHECKLIST

(my school gives out an ee checklist right before the deadline, so i figured i might as well share with the despairing ib and ee tags…)

1. TITLE PAGE: - title of the essay - subject in which the essay is registered - word count - name of the author - candidate number of the author - title page has no number

2. ABSTRACT - placed immediately after title page - page has no number - research question is clearly stated - research question is highlighted (underlined, italicised, bolded, etc) - clear explanation of how research was undertaken - conclusion is clearly stated - abstract does not exceed 300 words

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS - neatly laid out - page numbers correspond with headings - first item is introduction - does not include title page, abstract, and table of contents

4. INTRODUCTION - research question is clearly stated - research question is highlighted (underlined, italicised, bolded, etc) - research question is set into context - significance of the topic is clearly explained

5. CONCLUSION - conclusion is clearly separated from body of the essay - conclusion is clearly labelled  - conclusion is clearly stated - conclusion is relevant to the research question - conclusion is consistent with evidence in the body of the essay

6. APPENDICES (if applicable) - all appendices are neatly presented - all appendices are clearly labelled - appendices are clearly referenced in the body of the essay

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY - consistently follows one citation style (eg. MLA) - contains only sources referred to in the essay - arranged alphabetically - date of access and URLs are clearly indicated for all web sources

8. OTHER - all sources used (both quoted and paraphrased) are clearly documented through footnotes or in brackets - the essay does not exceed 4000 words

basically if you can check all of these off you should at least have all the formalities down for a good extended essay :)

[mominaaa]

IB Internal Assessments, Written Tasks and other coursework

I was clearing out IB related stuff from my computer (should’ve done so ages ago lol) but I just couldn’t let go of some of the work I spent not hours and days, but weeks and months on. I decided to upload the final versions of the work on Scribd and link them here for any IB students that would like to see a pro’s work  are stuck and want some help on getting started.

My HLs:

Biology:

IA: Osmosis (The effect of increasing sucrose concentration on the mass of potato chips)

IA: Enzymes and Inhibition (The effect of copper (II) sulphate on the activity of catalase.)

Chemistry:

IA: Energetics (Calculating the enthalpy of combustion for the first five alcohols.)

IA: Kinetics (To determine whether H+ ions in HCl act as a catalyst in the reaction between hydrochloric acid and sodium thiosulfate.)

English A: Language and Literature

WT 1: Language and Culture (A blog post discussing Palestinian identity, resistance and other themes that was made in response to an “Israeli hummus” ad.)

WT 2: How and why is a social group presented in a particular way? (An essay on the piece of crap that is Conrad’s Heart of Darkness)

WT 1: Language and Mass Communication (not sent, it’s a talk show script discussing feminism, first ever work in IB so wasn’t my best)

Further Oral Activity (Lang and Culture)  (Prezi about tobacco advertising past and present. My partner and I did most of the work verbally so it may not be very helpful but this was fun)

Further Oral Activity (Lang and Media) (Hated doing this so so much. The god-awful Madeleine McCann case that our school in Oman made us analyze for no reason)

Individual oral was on Carol Ann Duffy's Havisham but I don’t have a copy of that.

My SLs

Economics:

Microeconomics commentary (market failure in relation to cigarette consumption, specifically negative externalities of consumption and whether tobacco tax works as a possible solution)

Macroeconomics commentary (discusses the causes and some solutions to recent unemployment in Spain)

International economics commentary (tariffs and protectionism, evaluation, other solutions, etc)

Français B: 

Travail écrit (un appel basé sur des articles est des chansons concernant la thème de violence aux femmes et la resistance feministe)

Orale individuel sur les adverse effets de tabagisme et orale interactif sur l'identité Omanaise mais ceux-ci ne sont pas disponibles

Mathematics:

Exploration (using differential calculus to model the spread of epidemics, FUN)

Core

Extended Essay in Biology (Research Question: To what extent is Miswak more effective than toothpaste in reducing certain colonies of oral bacteria, as observed by inoculation of pre and post usage oral swabs? ~ Spent over a 100 solid hours on this excruciating task. 2 marks off an A but it was still worth it.) 

Theory of Knowledge

Essay (response to prescribed title no. 5 in May 2014 examinations:“The historian’s task is to understand the past; the human scientist, by contrast, is looking to change the future.” To what extent is this true in these areas of knowledge.)

Presentation (Main knowledge issue: To what extent do prejudice and belief play into people’s resistance of new scientific knowledge?~ got 20/20 with my brilliant partner ildoctora like hell yeah but most of the work was done verbally so idk if this is any help. Pro tip tho: don’t write too much on presentations)

CAS evaluations

Model United Nations (creativity)

Sailing (action)

Tutoring (mostly service)

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Please note:

None of this work is perfect. I got 6s and 7s in most of these but undoubtedly there are hundreds of other approaches you could take (and should take).

This is intended to be used as a guide or as a way to help you plan your work. If you take out chunks of text or ideas directly it would be considered plagiarism (everyone knows this but just putting it out here)

This was written/presented in line with the specific requirements of the syllabi up to 2014 examinations. The IA criteria change often, make sure you use the subject guide for the examinations in your year. (Subject guide is your best friend tbh. It’s a better aid than myself, other IB students and even your teachers.)

You can send me a message if you have any queries regarding this or other IB stuff and I’d be happy to help if I can.

[shit-ib-students-say]

I really wish pictures were actually worth a thousand words. Then I’d just need four and I’ll be done with this shit

talking about the Extended Essay (via shit-ib-students-say)

[internationalbaccalaureatehelp]

How To Write An Extended Essay

A) Subject Decide from which subject your EE will be on. It is most advisable that its from one of the subjects you’re studying. B) Topic Which area in the subject you’ve chosen are you interested in? E.g: History: Cold War E.g: English: Pride and Prejudice E.g: Chemistry: Acids and Bases C) Research Tres important mes aimies! It’s through research you will find out what you do like, and what you don’t like. E.g: I rather like World War Two, but I do not like the involvement of the US. This means I will not focus on US involvement in WWII. Gather as many resources which are relevant, even if it’s just a sentence. You never know when your EE focus point might change. D) Question The focus point of your essay. In most cases, it continues to change slightly, until a pinpoint focus in a topic is found and liked by both the supervisor and student. E) Planning Decide on the relevant subtopics. Are diagrams needed? Gather resources. A basic dot-pointed list of what will be included in the essay for each sub-topic F) Drafting Place butt on suitable surface and type/write. There are two ways to go about this: i) Set a goal and write an x amount of words every ‘session’. ii) Type/write until you can no more! At this point it is the introduction, background information abour the topic and the body of the essay which is being written. G) The First Complete Draft 4000+ words have been put to paper. This is an Accomplishment. Reread it and edit. Then show your supervisor, who will provide you with feedback. Do not ignore the feedback (unless your supervisor is clueless and has no hell of an idea what you’re doing- which is very bad). It is not necessary that a conclusion and an abstract are written, since they come at the end. H) Continual drafting Edit and rewrite and improve your essay as much as you can. Keep track of ALL sources used. The correct presentation of the essay (formatting, font, etc…) can be implemented at this point. I) The Final Draft A viva voce (oh, the IBO and its fancy Latin!) is conducted. This is an interview with your supervisor regarding any more changes which can be made. Your supervisor actually records points they’ve noticed about your essay and other notes about the interview. The essay is checked for plagiarism. J) SUBMISSION! Your EE component is done and dusted. The IB warlocks will give you a mark. This mark, along with your TOK essay will contribute your final IB diploma mark, with a maximum of three. Links Here are a few much more thorough guides regarding the Extended Essay (in order of usefulness) IBO official Extended Essay Guide (click on the other pages listed on the right hand side of the page to view criteria, regulations, presentation guidelines, etc…) City Honours School EE guide IB Survival EE for Dummies

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18/100 days of productivity

Preparing for IB English Lit Paper 1 ❤️❤️

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After receiving my IB scores on the 6th of July, I had multiple people messaging me, and asking for tips on how to do/score well on the international baccalaureate diploma program. Disclaimer: all of these tips worked well for me, to achieve the score that I wanted. Everyone studies and learns differently, hence all of these tips may not be applicable to you.  

1. Pace Yourself

The IB has many ‘pressure points’ throughout the year, where things get exceptionally difficult: multiple deadlines all at once, extended essay data analysis taking up all of your time, IAs, IOPs, IOCs - the list could go on. Our fight or flight syndrome kicks in, you begin to sprint through all of these obstacles and your brain starts working in overdrive. When you’ve passed these hurdles, your mind comes to a hard stop and burns out all together in exhaustion. This is not what you want. Organise your larger tasks into more manageable chunks and take each day at a time. Do not allow yourself to get overwhelmed. 

2. Internalise The Syllabus Statements / Rubrics 

The syllabus statements are your guidelines to success. Keep a copy at your side while you are studying for tests, and make sure to reference them regularly. This ensures that you are studying things that are relevant and will actually come up in assessments. You also save time by ‘cutting out the crap,’ i.e. any extra information you dont really need to learn.

3. Active Learning > Passive Learning

I have always said that textbooks are my greatest tool, however, simply reading the material wont get you far - none of the information will stick in your mind, for you to be able to recall, during the exam. You need to actively learn the information set out in front of you. A few of my favourite methods are: memorising summary notes taken from the textbook by reading aloud, making flashcards and testing myself, re-writing my notes multiple times on a whiteboard, teaching my friends and working through past paper questions.

4. Don’t Exhaust Your Mind

If you can study for 8 hours straight, that’s awesome. If you can’t, don’t feel alone. The average amount of time a person can sit down and study for is 1-2 hours, after that our brain begins to get exhausted. Don’t push yourself if you start to feel tired, take a 20 minute break and walk around or take a short nap. Studying in multiple short bursts has proved to be more successful than studying in a single continuous study-session anyway.

5. Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy 

Remember, it is your own personal achievements you want to be focused on. Not that of anyone else’s. Comparing your score to that of your best friends’ is not going to be helpful in anyway, in fact it may actually be demotivating, and that is the last thing that you want. Also, theres this whole stigma in the IB that certain subjects are harder than others, that is absolute bullshit. Difficulty is completely subjective - what may be very hard for others, may be extremely easy for you. Don’t think that a 7 in an ‘easy subject’ is worth less than a 7 in a ‘hard subject.’ A 7 is a 7. Be proud of yourself.

6. Love What You Do

Treat the IB like a job and learn to love it. Once you embark on this two year journey, there really is no getting off. You may as well enjoy the process. 

7. Don’t Lose Momentum

I’m going to go back and reference point 1 again, if you burn you, you lose momentum - in regards to your stamina/motivation to study. This is not ideal. You want to continue with the same level of momentum throughout the IB, and slowly increase the pace as you near exams, at which point you should peak. I was told this by one of my teachers, and it is probably the greatest piece of advice, that I have ever received. 

8. Don’t neglect TOK And Your EE

Treat both of these as separate subjects all together, and devote as much time to them, as you would to any other subject. Getting those 3 points can determine whether you get your diploma, and it just feels a lot more satisfying to see ‘3/3′ on the screen. I spent 3 hours in my chem lab, every day after school, for around 5 months, experimenting and writing up my EE. I read journal articles, talked to professionals in the area of chemistry I was writing about and tried my hardest to go above and beyond in order to obtain the information I needed. And boy, did seeing an ‘A’ on the screen, feel good. 

9. Have A Clear Goal In Sight

You’re going to ask yourself why the hell you bother with CAS, when you aren’t creative, nor do you like sport (same dude.) You’re going to question why you study six subjects, that covers almost every area of academia, when you’re only interested in the arts. You’re going to stop yourself in the middle of a difficult task, and questions why the fuck you are persevering. You need answers. I found that constantly reminding myself of my future and what I wanted to study and university, really helped me shrug off these questions, and just continue on with what I was doing.

10. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” 

I’m going to end with this quote. I used it as a mantra when I was feeling particularly tired and demotivated, and it really helped. I hope it helps you too. 

[studisoul]

i get asked a lot about how i managed a 45 in the IB, so for my 101st post i’ve decided to compile a list of my general advice here. keep in mind that there’s no magic recipe to a perfect score - these are just a few little things that worked for me. 

sleep!!! i always prioritised my own health and wellbeing by giving myself at the very least 6.5~7 hours every night. sleep well and you’ll be happier and more focused in class. otherwise, when you’re constantly tired, you’ll be so drained and lose motivation fast.

don’t be a perfectionist. remember that a 7 doesn’t necessarily mean 100%. don’t waste your time and energy trying to top your class in one subject or reformatting an IA for ~aesthetics~ when you could be lifting your grade in another. low 7s across the board is better than some very high 7s but a bunch of 6s!

experiment with study methods. i made posters for economics, flashcards for definitions and formulas for my sciences, summary notes for maths and comparison tables for literature. sometimes i studied by myself, other times with friends. mix it up to keep it interesting!!! see what suits your learning and your subjects. 

get a head start! this applies to a few things: 

core components. do as much as you can in first year, especially CAS! you’ll need to concentrate on grades in second year, which is difficult if you’re still overwhelmed with extracurriculars and trying to fulfil CAS requirements. 

IAs. some contribute to your final grade more than others, but they’re worth the effort since they give you a larger margin for error in final exams. give yourself deadlines earlier than what your teacher gives you: plan done by next week, first draft in two weeks, final copy in a month, etc. 

know your enemy. half your marks come not from knowing the content, but knowing how to play the game!!! do plenty of practice papers so you’re familiar with the style of questions, and study the mark schemes very carefully. often, especially in the sciences, there’s very specific wording or answers they like, so take note of those. check out examiner’s reports to see what issues past students have had. 

change your attitude. this one’s hard to explain and hard to do. it’s about a shift in perspective, and it really did make all the difference for me. 

think of your IAs as opportunities to revise for exams and explore your subjects in a broader context, perhaps to see if they’re career paths or areas you might want to pursue further study in. try to choose topics that interest you if you can!!!

think of your exams as a chance to show off your achievements. put your effort into writing brilliant answers, rather than focusing on avoiding mistakes and being upset about what you don’t know. stick it to the examiners and show how far you’ve come!!!

if anybody has questions about a specific subject, whether it’s the content or study techniques or whatever, or just wants to chat about IB, feel free to drop a message in my inbox!!!

[i-bees]

my study moods

Tired but still going: eyes twitching, didn't sleep more than two hours last night (or not at all), "I can study a little bit more, it's okay"

Not today: opens book, reads a word, sighs, closes book

Doing a lot, learning a little: drinks 7 liters of coffee while listening to someone explain magnetic fields (even through I'm taking notes on biology), thinking about my to do list

The procrastinator: "I know I have like 36 chapters for tomorrow but I suddenly have this urge to research about aromatherapy"

Time traveling: studies for nine hours straight, "when did the sun go down?"

Inverse pomodoro: very proud because I wrote like two sentences, time to take a four hours break

Hate/love relationship: "I hate this subject" I mumble as I keep studying it

[theibgirls]

Do you have suggestions of your IB history teacher doesn't teach well ? I haven't learnt much at all and we're already 2 months into this year (I'm in my second year, but had a better teacher last time)

I would say that you should talk to your teacher first. Maybe say that you don’t learn well with their teaching methods. If nothing changes though I’d just suggest to study on your own as much as possible. Use the Internet, watch documentaries, YouTube videos etc. And use your class mates also, they might be able to help you understand things by discussing them and analysis them together, it works well for me at least and I find history very difficult. I hope this helped a little bit at least ❤️😊

[i-bees]

The Signs as IB Students

Aries: Dying

Taurus: Dying

Gemini: Dying

Cancer: Dying

Leo: Dying

Virgo: Dying

Libra: Dying

Scorpio: Dying

Sagittarius: Dying

Capricorn: Dying

Aquarius: Dying

Pisces: Dying

[aloe-gardener]

IB Exam Master Post

Note: These are only my classes, so please feel free to add any sources you may have for other courses. 

IB History

http://dobbieuais.weebly.com/

This covers mostly 20th Century Wars topics, with some Americas topics mixed in. This is probably one of the best resources out there for IB history, honestly. There’s a lot of good information here. Note: Just make sure you’re in the IB History 12 tab

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Crash Course US. Less focus on Latin America and Canada, but let’s be honest, the US plays a huge role in most America’s topics. Entertaining and helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/user/wadobbie/videos

My history teacher’s youtube channel: there’s a lot of informative and interesting lectures here. Also some videos of his kids, but hey.

IB Music

http://www.sd5.k12.mt.us/cms/lib3/MT01001507/Centricity/Domain/114/MT11_scheme_KS5_Rossini_Gershwin.pdf

Literally everything you will ever need to know about the prescribed works.

http://teoria.com/

Go over chords and key sigs. Remember, you’re gonna have a score provided for at least one piece.

IB French

Culture and Traditions vocab:

https://quizlet.com/74295934/champs-lexical-coutumes-et-traditions-flash-cards/

Health Vocab:

https://quizlet.com/74299296/champs-lexical-la-sante-flash-cards/

Connector words to enhance essays:

http://www.connectigramme.com/connecteurs.html/odyframe.htm

A website for grammar:

http://www.connectigramme.com/index.htm

Verb Conjugator:

http://french.about.com/library/verb/bl-verbconjugator.htm

IB Bio

http://travismulthaupt.com/page71/page71.html

This site includes information on core curriculum, and options c, d, and f. Also covers command terms as used in Bio.

http://ibguides.com/biology/home

http://ib.bioninja.com.au/

These two are essentially the same sort of site. They cover all the standards pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3EED4C1D684D3ADF

Crash Course Bio. Not ideal because it doesn’t focus on specific IB topics, but good to get a general idea of what’s going on.

IB English

…I can’t really help you with this one. Read your works. Reread your works. Study devices. Get in a group of friends and talk about the works. Review literary devices. Use Sparknotes if you get too confused.

Math

…good luck

To Help Concentration:

http://simplynoise.com/

A white noise website.

http://rainfor.me/

Rain noise. It can be played alongside other music.

Additional

Eat healthy food and drink lots of water! Sleep like a normal person for once in your life. Good sleep will help you way more than cramming will. Plan out study blocks and stick to them. Explain history to your pet. Above all, try not to be too stressed! You’ve got this!