Official IB Exams Thread 2016

HL or SL? (bear in mind we can't talk about the actual exam content at all for 24 hours!)

i did the prose so glad paper 1 is over!!

I did the poem! I started off really well but my timekeeping skills were awful and so I didn't talk about the end of the poem in as much depth unfortunately :-(
But I still think I may have just scraped a 7 if I'm lucky! Paper 2 tomorrow, does anyone have any tips??

Does anyone do HL history and is currently dying lol

Hey, which units are you doing? I can forward you my notes from last year if you'd like

Communism in Europe-

paper 1 is pretty straightforward
paper 2 - Cold War and single party states (mao and hitler)
paper 3 - French revolution/Napoleon and Russia 1856-1924

ah thank you, that is really kind of u!!! have u done IB already then? do u have any advice for HL history?) by far the hardest and most time consuming subject i take!!

I did the Americas, but have vast amounts of notes on the Cold War as that was my SL module.

I did:
Great Depression in the Americas
Cold War in the Americas
Equal Rights Movements in the Americas
Independence Movements in Rhodesia, India and Poland
Cold War 1945-1991
Arab-Israeli Crisis

I actually thought History was pretty straightforward.
Don't learn vast amounts of content - you don't need to include that much in your essays. Spot essay questions and learn the essay plans. What they want to see you doing is analysing different perspecives of events and having a sound judgement. I can forward you a couple of my essays if you'd like. I was ranging between 13/20 and 18/20 over the period of the two years. PM me your email address if you want me to send you anything

ah okay thanks
wow your grades are so high!!! that's like level 7s! I need to get a 6 in history and I;ve been getting like 12/13's in class works and homeworks but im just worried i won't get a good question or i won't be able to answer it well enough to get me a decent grade!!

Haha, yeah I got a 7 in History
I'm surr you'll be able to - there's absolutely no reason for you to slip here

How did u revise historiography? did u name historians or did u just say stuff like 'some historians would argue that...'
AHHH I HATE HISTORY LOL

Hey, which units are you doing? I can forward you my notes from last year if you'd like

I named historians. At HL you have to. E g:

Williams has argued that ... whilst this perspective recognises ..., it fails to fully realise ....

To reach the higher bands you need to evaluate perspective.

Try to use the key word 'perspective' in your paragraphs too

Hey would you mind sending me the ones on cold war? Thank you SO much in advance!

ahhh i just find it so hard to learn views of historians across a broad range of topics!! my teacher said that for HL u just need to show awareness of historical debate, if u can namedrop historians it's super impressive but u don't have to explicitly name them?
ok i'll remember that for next week! Thanks!

English paper 2 done.....
Man, it was harder than I expected but the questions were relatively good! SO although I thought I did well, I think I could have done better haha

hey has anyone sat for economics hl tz2 yet?

I did,

I did questions 1 & 3