IB procrastination thread...

totally agreed! i always spend extra time on probability and statistics + vectors.. i find calculus easier than those two

yeah me too :P check out youtube videos by this guy, they helped me a bit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ-t0UVQ_OQ

Anyone else paranoid about English (A1 HL) Paper 1??? 2 days!! I need 34 points for Edinburgh. English HL people, which one are you more comfortable with- prose or poetry?

Oh, and how hard is it to score well on Paper 2, any idea?

Anyone else paranoid about English (A1 HL) Paper 1??? 2 days!! I need 34 points for Edinburgh. English HL people, which one are you more comfortable with- prose or poetry?

Oh, and how hard is it to score well on Paper 2, any idea?

Paper 2 scores the highest.
Im also in Eng HL A1, and im more worried for Paper 2. Paper 1 is basically an IOC but on paper.

I'm worried about english a little, mainly because I haven't written a single practice essay and one of my friends is doing about 5 a day! But I think with english, seeing as you've probably written thousands of essays over the years, it's just a matter of carrying on and writing well in the exam.
Personally, I always go for the poetry, just because I write line by line analysis and it's far easier to work through poetry in this way. I also think it's easier to find technical things to talk about in poetry.
I don't really know grade boundaries and such for paper 2, but the trick seems to be just thinking as creatively as you can within the question, and making sure you can justify everything you suggest.
AHHHHHHHH NERVOUS!!! (Getting the bad grammar and spelling out of my system early I hope.)
Good luck everyone!

Nothing is scarier than an IOC, though Yeah, even though Paper 2 is supposed to score higher, I'm more worried about it too. I've only done 2 Paper 2 essays. Is it true that you lose out on marks if you choose a general question? Because I'm doing drama, and our teacher hinted to us that it would be best to do one of the drama questions.



I've only written 1 practice essay! I've analysed/ planned essays on a few other unseens without actually writing the essay, but still. I used to think that too, poetry seems a little less daunting because of it's (usually) clear structure. But I don't know, I'll see what the questions are. It depends on whichever one interests me the most. I tried a line by line analysis once, complete disaster! I'm much more comfortable with the structure our teacher taught us in the beginning- thesis, intro, content, mood/atmosphere/tone, structure/movement, imagery, and conclusion.

Only thing is I get very impatient with content and structure because the main part of the essay is supposed to be imagery, and I sort of rush it... Nervous doesn't even come close to describing how stressed out I am

Can I ask you how much time you spend planning and reading? Our teacher recommends half an hour, but that's crazy! I read for about 10 mins, analyse mentally, and then plunge into it. I usually manage about 6 sides. Is that OK? Sorry, as you can probably tell I'm practically shivering with anxiety!

AAAAHHH who made this schedule?? I have exams from 9 in the morning til 5 in the afternoon on May 17th with only 1 hour break!!

damn that's a very tight schedule.. the worst it gets for me is a 2 hour break between the two exams and im glad the timings r at 7:30 and 12:00 so i have time after the afternoon exam to study for the next day

you're really lucky! an the worst thing is that on that day I have two Spanish papers , less than an hour break , and two Biology HL papers which are terribly hard for me

I wish everyone best of luck!!

*purely nostalgic post*

Had my first two exams this morning... wasn't very good :/

damn.. sry to hear that :/ btw what is school based syllabus?

I don't know what humanity you do, but I'm at an utter loss as to how to study for psychology. I've made notes. Lots of notes. But how do I make them stick? Psychology's my dissaster subject. Hopefully I can make up for it elsewhere...

I'm not entirely sure, lol, I think it's the name for exams that the schools themselves make up rather than the IBO? So this morning I did classics and because there's only 17 people that take IB classics worldwide (lol!) one of the schools that does classics wrote the exam... I think that's what it means anyway :/ seems a bit unfair as I'm sure that the school that wrote the exam could've been sneaky and told their students what was going to come up!