Official IB Exams Thread 2016

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Reply 160

sophieec

Original post by Procaffinator

Agree. But Section A was tricky :s-smilie:

yeah, i found it quite hard too! fingers crossed though :smile:

Reply 161

sarahjennyp

How do people generally feel about biology SL paper 1 and 2? A lot of people in my school (including me) thought it was WAY too easy and grade boundaries will be sky rocketing this year - is that just my school or generally a feeling of everyone?

Reply 162

sarahjennyp

Original post by martaganger

ugh not precisely, I remember 1 because it's the one I answered. Paraphrased it was something like "Some plays imitate reality and try to make the action as realistic as possible, others do not. Discuss how playwrights remind the audience that they are watching a play." So you could talk about props, lights, sound effects, presence of a narrator and such.

SO GLAD to read this!! This is exactly what I wrote about haha. We also did A Streetcar Named Desire hehe :smile:

Reply 163

sophieec

Original post by sarahjennyp

hahah really!!?? many people i have spoken to at school and abroad found it super hard! i hope that grades boundaries will be low ://

Reply 164

sarahjennyp

Original post by sophieec

hahah really!!?? many people i have spoken to at school and abroad found it super hard! i hope that grades boundaries will be low ://

OH! okay well thats good to hear I guess - at least like if the grade boundaries will be normal that would be good. The Section B questions of Paper 2 and the multiple choice were really nice though I thought :smile:

Reply 165

sophieec

Original post by sarahjennyp

maybe it's because biology is my weakest subject but overall i found it pretty challenging!! that's good if u found it easy though, u probably scored really high :smile:

Reply 166

sarahjennyp

Original post by sophieec

maybe it's because biology is my weakest subject but overall i found it pretty challenging!! that's good if u found it easy though, u probably scored really high :smile:

I don't know haha I was aiming for a 6 tbh but yeah we'll see :smile:

but if people found it hard generally and since it's a new syllabus they might actually lower the grade boundaries this year so that'll work for you!! :smile:

Reply 167

sophieec

Original post by sarahjennyp

I don't know haha I was aiming for a 6 tbh but yeah we'll see :smile:

but if people found it hard generally and since it's a new syllabus they might actually lower the grade boundaries this year so that'll work for you!! :smile:

hopefully!! i'm aiming for a 5 :smile:

hopefully the IA will help with that

Reply 168

FecktheIB

Anyone have any predictions for History paper one tomorrow?

Reply 169

sophieec

Original post by FecktheIB

Anyone have any predictions for History paper one tomorrow?

hahah wish i knew :frown:

((

Reply 170

silverdolphin

Original post by anamariamikhail

lol real life examples? i just try evaluating the fudge out of them, especially with macro and deflation - gotta in all that export competitiveness, types of unemployment associated with it, long run short run... hope i got a 6 hahaha i am never good at remembering the real life scenarios that our teachers tells us

haha that sounds good! for micro, I felt like there wasn't enough to write, I definitely didn't feel as though I had written content worth 15 marks especially since the question specified only the impact on consumers and the government >< haha I only did so because our teachers made a point of reinforcing it again and again :') but your analysis + evaluation sounds good, I'm sure you did well!

Reply 171

jaichandak

Any physicists here? Thoughts on tomorrows papers?

Reply 172

eternallyapril

Original post by FecktheIB

Anyone have any predictions for History paper one tomorrow?

My history teacher said that he thought it would be on Manchuria... and then another history teacher in our school said it would probably be on the mandate system, so I have no idea

Reply 173

sophieec

Original post by eternallyapril

My history teacher said that he thought it would be on Manchuria... and then another history teacher in our school said it would probably be on the mandate system, so I have no idea

haha i've studied communism in crisis - Russia and China. There's so much to learn and it's so annoying how it only turns out to be on one!! wish we knew :smile:

Reply 174

eternallyapril

Original post by sophieec

haha i've studied communism in crisis - Russia and China. There's so much to learn and it's so annoying how it only turns out to be on one!! wish we knew :smile:

I know!

Are you ready for paper 2 and paper 3 if you do HL?

I can't wait for math to be over...

Reply 175

FecktheIB

Original post by eternallyapril

My history teacher said that he thought it would be on Manchuria... and then another history teacher in our school said it would probably be on the mandate system, so I have no idea

I heard mandates or Washington since neither of them have come up

Reply 176

eternallyapril

Original post by FecktheIB

I heard mandates or Washington since neither of them have come up

How in-depth do you think we have to know the mandate system?

Reply 177

FecktheIB

Original post by eternallyapril

How in-depth do you think we have to know the mandate system?

Class A B C
Woodrow's fifth point
Wasn't successful
Effects
The specifics to an extent such as countries involvednot much more but being able to contextualise it in the overall peacemaking phase is important