#internal assessment

[international-baccalaureshit]

a couple hours and several pages into my math IA, i realise i did the whole thing based on a wrong equation. how cooked am i (first draft is due in a week)

[rxm3]

I did my math IA last year and had a lot of fun with doing stats, so here are some other relationships you could have fun analyzing:

Kudos to Hits (AO3)

Average run time of a “principle” actor in a film (should probably be narrowed down to one specific actor or one specific director)

Word count of a specific word in a text

How the number of instruments in a song might affect its popularity (of one specific artist)

I’d suggest doing an ANOVA test for an IA, not necessarily these examples, I did and it was a lot of fun. Albeit, I did have to teach it to myself, but still. I got all geeky and analyzed how and if different actors playing the Doctor and different executive producers affected the rating of the show, and which was most significant. At the end, my data concluded that there was no significant difference between the two but that they were both very affective, but it’s the study and procedure IB is looking at.

[comparatist]

~ a lot has changed since i last posted.

17. 03. 22

i plan to finish gora [rabindranath tagore] by today. i've more course work to do. i've another text - heart of darkness [joseph conrad]. reference texts include - kim [rudyard kipling] and things fall apart [chinua achebe]. i have an internal assessment on monday. more reference/research work is to be done. gora is a very long text and at this point it seems so frustatingly long, i'm trying not to break down. anyway.

[maezly]

I'm officially screwed with writing my Biology IA purposal. Cuz I have nooooo idea what I'm gonna do for it.

Don't procasinate like me guys 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🥰

[international-baccalaureate]

Announcement:

International Baccalaureate is pleased to announce a partnership with satan. As part of our arrangement, we will be replacing the Internal Assessment with a new, better, more satanic, Infernal Assessment.

[blue-cat-shitposts]

Me, frantically looking up statistical vocabulary, youtube tutorials explaining complicated equations and trying to make sense of heaps of data for the IA:

[mhs-memes]

haven’t posted any original content in a hot min

just IB student tings 🤪

[justtrying-studyblog]

Sara’s Guide to Biology IA (please don’t do this)

As you can guess from the title, this post is gonna talk about my biology IA. Now let me start with urging everybody to not put this off to the last THREE DAYS like I did. Seriously, it’s a horrible habit of mine but in my defense I was busy doing other assignments (and watching tv). 

So, in three days I have to turn in my biology IA. So far, I have a topic, databases to use and that’s it. But, how will I write an entire paper in three days, you ask. Well young grasshopper, I’m gonna split it off into bit size study sessions and hope for the best. (I’m already coming up with excuses as to why its late)

Before I list my steps, I do want to rant a bit (isn’t this all a rant, though?). It’s important that I pass biology. Like, it’s the deciding factor for getting into my dream college important. To get into this specific university, I have to get a 6 in biology (for those who do not know, IB/DP grades each class from 1-7, +4 is passing and 7 is almost impossible). So high expectations. Especially with all this talk about IB cancelling exams. If they do cancel them, IB will be grading me off of my IAs (internal assessments) and judging my entire IB grade off of that. That’s scary. Especially because my bio IA topic is not that hands on (i’m interpreting a bunch of data and giving reasons behind the results, it’s a very farfetched investigation in my opinion, but it’s too late to change it). I have been studying harder than ever to pass these exams, specifically bio, and if they get cancelled i don’t know how I’m gonna do. I really want to get into this university, I’m putting all my academic eggs into its basket. 

But, that rant aside, here’s my plan for writing my entire IA (draft) in three days:

1) So today, I will be collecting ALL data and research, making sure I have everything I need (preferably printed out). It won’t be the end of my research process, cause you never know what you’ll need until you start writing, but it’s a start. I’ll also try analyzing the data, but I might need to wait for my math class tomorrow to ask my teacher questions. 

2) Tomorrow is analyzing said data and interpreting it. Essentially, the body paragraphs. This will be my actual investigation and the analytical part of my paper. I will also start the section of why the results make sense and my thoughts on it.

3) Friday (the due date) will be focused on the intro and conclusion as well as the background information. This day I will also be on the road all day to look at a potential college opinion, so we’ll figure it out when we get there. This is also the last day, meaning edits, formatting and final touches. 

If I get lucky and don’t move from this computer for the rest of the week, I should finish Friday. More realistically, I’ll finish this weekend but my teacher said herself that she won’t be able to grade them all at once, so I have some leeway with that. 

So wish me luck guys, I’ll try to keep you updated on my progress, but you know I’m not very consistent with posts. ✨Stay safe, and learn from my mistakes✨