IB 2015 Graduates! Revision and Exam discussion thread.

For people who are taking their exams in May!
Fill in this form:

1. When is your first exam?
2. How confident are you?
3. What are your subjects?
4. Weakest subject?
5. Strongest subject?
6. Stress level on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most?

You can get in touch with other people graduating IB this year so you can discuss revision and help each other with subjects! Put your strongest subject as the one you would be willing to help someone else with

1. When is your first exam? 4th May
2. How confident are you? 5
3. What are your subjects? HL: Math, Geography, Physics SL:French, English, Economics
4. Weakest subject? MATH HL
5. Strongest subject? Geography/ Economics
6. Stress level on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most? 3

Exactly the same subjects as me! haha except my strongest is biology and my weakest is probably geography, how do you manage to remember all the case studies? I really struggle with the essays

Haha hey! Well honestly, in my geography class there are only 3 of us so classes are much more personal and interactive. Our teacher is amazing as well, and for many of the case studies you're only going to need the information for 4 mark questions, so you don't need to memorise every detail. The important thing about geography is remembering that everything is interconnected, and that whatever you're writing about has connections in at least like 3 other areas. Always bring everything together, and always look at either side of whatever the argument is. USE EXAMPLES.
Are you in HL Biology? How do you remember everything I'm only good at paper 3 options.. I can't do the paper 1 and paper 2 section B at all..

Hiii haha, yeah there's only 3 in my history which is good, there's 6 in my geography class. See my teacher is really helpful because she reuses case studies whenever she can and does loads of exam practice, it's just the essays that trip me up. Yeah I think the interconnections are what make it hard for me because my brain just turns to mush just thinking about everything haha. Yep! I think a lot of it you have to try to remember in a series of stages and just try to simplify everything, try not to overthink anything because that's when you'll struggle. Oh I find paper 3 options the hardest hahaha. For paper 1 what I do is if I'm really stuck I look at the options and the 2 that start the exact same way, one of them 2 answers are usually right. For paper 2 you've just got to go through each one and think carefully. When you choose one just do a quick mindmap/plan which really makes you think, if it's something like the Krebs cycle, quickly draw the diagram, it really does help.

I'll message you after the bio and geo exams and we can complain together about them
For geo, the essay is mainly looking for evaluation and analysis. Just take the simplest of ideas and make it sound complicated and bring up any conceivable impact of something that you can think of.
For bio I just keep rewriting the whole syllabus.. I'm genuinely screwed