You are a student aren't you ;p I haven't seen the question or your work, I'm doing French ab, but I think if you had decent grammar and used words connected with daily routine (again, I don't know the question but say, you wrote that you eat breakfast at 7 or that you go to school by bus every day) and then chose an appropriate form, you are gonna be just fine. You shouldn't get 0 imo.

This rule is in place for two reasons: ease of photocopying (some ink removers can ruin the scan) and because a lot of students forget/ can't properly write over the erased part - in which case it would be better just to cross out the work.

So I think you'll be fine for this. Your exams officer should have made the rules more clear, but there's nothing that can be done about it now.

I'm still deciding whether to do IB or A-Levels and people have given me different opinions. Most people are shocked that I want to do IB. Do universities generally prefer IB students? :)

Hey..

Firstly, your subject choices are fine! You do comply with the pre requisites of any Med School in the UK (Or others, around the world, except for India as you do not have HL: Physics, Chem and Bio)... Coming to the part of application, any Med School in the UK would require minium 38-45 points, some have a requirement of 7,7,7 or 7,7,6 in HL subjects, honestly, do extremely well in Chemistry because it is widely used in Medicine. Also, your IGCSE scores are supposedly fine, do not worry too much about IGCSE Biology however if you show drastic improvement in IB then of course the world is in your hands. Make sure you perform very well in your HL subjects and also SL. Also, don't forget to have strong extra curricular activities, you could also volunteer at a hospital.

I'm an IB Alumni, currently doing Medicine and getting in to any Med School with IB is kinda difficult because they set extremely high boundaries for us while it's quite simpler for applicants who did A Levels.

Hope that was enough, do let me know if you need to know anything else.

As an IB student that has just been accepted into med school, you are mainly correct but for the OP sake, feel the need to point out how many IB points you need.

You can get into at least one or two med schools* with 36 overall IB points.
You can get into a significant number of med schools* with 37 overall IB points.
You can get into the vast majority of med schools* with 38 overall IB points.
Oxford & Cambridge are more competitive and you may well want to look at 40+ points for them - but by no means is 40 points necessary :)
And the more IB points allows you to stand out from the crowd but you can stand out other ways - as long as you meet those minimum entry requirements.
Obviously the above still requires UKCAT / BMAT / Personal Statement / Reference / Work Experience / Interviews etc...



It's good to do well in your highers but I have spoken to several med school students who have said Chemistry really is not used that much in med school.

I'm in a complete and utter state right now as I'm in my first year of IB at the moment and I've been doing standard level French since the start. We've nearly finished the year and my teacher had his learning conversations with us and he told me I will fail. I listen to french radio read french articles play French games I've recently (today) got a tutor but what else can I do can anyone recommend text books or anything I can do. I'm in desperate need for 38 points and French is dragging down my average. It was probably the most painful conversation I've ever had and its way to late for me to start a new language so I'm stuck.

:(

Posted from TSR Mobile

You would end up getting a 3.

(Numbers below are fictional)
E.g. To get a 4, say you need 120/240 marks - that is 50%
If you get 119/240 marks - that is 49.6% (freakily similar to your example above :$)

However, you need 120 marks to get a 4- which just happens to be 50%. It is the mark itself that is important - & marks themselves cannot be rounded up/down :)

Yeah, the big thing is you need to know your books backwards!! I had Macbeth and Heart of Darkness and (as lame as it sounds) my friends and I would could pretty much recite the entire thing! OK, here are my tips:
- Re-read your books a couple of times over with a pencil/pen and highlighter ready to make notes. Author's very rarely put something in a book that doesn't have a purpose, so even if it seems like the smallest insignificant thing, think about why the author has written about it
- You should also practice doing an IOC. Get yourself a cheap microphone and download "audacity" from the web (unless you already have a voice recording system), pick out a section of about 40 lines in the book and time yourself - 10 mins notation, 15 mins recording yourself.
- Don't keep choosing easy extracts either, try and choose extracts that are going to be challenging
- The hardest thing about the IOC is structuring how you're going speak - it's really tempting to just stop the recording, think about what you're going to say next and then start it up again - DON'T. You may as well get used to the feeling of having a total mind block and continuing to speak anyway!
- your structure should be as if you're reading an written commentary, speak as you would write. Also, don't just say that "the author uses a simile at this point", explain why it's there and it's relevance!
- prepare an introduction for each text you have and memorise it - your introduction will barely be affected by which extract you get. Include: where the extract is from (the title) and the author, where abouts in the book it's located, what's happened before and after this point, and why it's significant in the whole context of the book. You can also provide a VERY brief and relevant background of the author. In total the introduction to take you about 2 mins speaking time

Trust me, practice IOCs are the best way to go - I did hundreds of them and I swear my family thought I'd gone mad and started speaking to myself, but on the day I actually ended up getting an extract that I had already practiced at home and it made me relax. Also, see if you can get a mark scheme for the IOC and either get your teacher to mark some (just to see how you're going) or your family/ friends.

Hope this helps!

Hi guys, any of you IB students? Have you ever joined any IB student conferences? There are 4 this year and I’m not too sure which one I should go to - http://www.ibo.org/wsc/ :)

Thanks for the feedback,

But do you think that med schools would seriously mind the fact that i am doing the first year of AS level and then moving to the IB?

I'm second year philosophy as well, or was i guess its all over now. The structure wholock95 set out is what I use too. I didn't start producing good essays until second year though, don't think I knew enough or I wasn't motivated. My IA was a level 7 though and I'm hoping for a 6 or 7 over all as I felt the exam went well. Also did you know that philosophy is one of the only exams not to be timezoned? so if youve got a friend doing it a few hours east of you its theoretically possible to find out the exam questions in advance, luckily they were easy this year I found so there was no need. How did anyone else find it? I especially liked the core picture

Hey, can any of you guys help me?
It is the most basic thing ever but I just ... I completely forgot.

How do you answer the 8-mark questions and the 22-mark questions?
I know the 22-mark questions, you'd have to talk about 3 studies and include critical thinking but what about 8-mark questions?

Hi all,
This is a general question for all IB students...
Are the SAT subject tests easy for a person who has completed the Diploma Programme or should the person spend extra time learning extra content??

I will be testing in HL Bio. For the 2 options, our school is doing Option E (Neurobio) and Option G (Ecology). Neurobiology is superrrrrrr hard for me and I found Option H easier for me. Can I just do Option H instead of Option E on the official IB paper 2 exam without telling my teacher??

No awards for a 100% in Eco HL? Wow that's quite tough considering it's not so easy to not miss one single point in essay subjects...

If you want some ESS notes and exam prep things send me a PM :) I have so much ESS notes and nothing to do with them once exams are over...

Hi,
So I think I would like to do IB for the next 2 years and I think I can do a subject from each of the categories to suit me apart from science. Science is actually my worst subject at the moment, and at my school we get a choice from biology, chem and physics (all at either HL or SL). I'm particularly bad at chem, I can't dissect things in bio and I don't think I've had enough experience in physics but I want to know what is the easiest or would be the easiest for me and yeah
Thanks :)

For P1 and P2 - same here, although I wouldn't mind some comparatory question in Single Party States section in Paper 2 - e.g. comparing rise to power of two dictators from two regions or right wing and left wing - then I'd go for Castro and Hitler.

Paper 3 - Mussolini is great, Alexander II is great, but Ataturk would be even better :)

BTW, basing on past papers there are always topics on origins of the Cold War, so we're safe then :> Also, Maths HL and History HL? How do you even manage?

If you're going to take IB, I strongly advise you NOT to take history or HL math.