Hi there! I'm a foreign student, who is going to study in the UK next year. I'm just about to enter my Sixth Form and I've decided to take the IB course.
But here the problem comes: I have no idea how to make a balanced, well-rounded curriculum. I've already examined all the possible IB subjects my school offers, but still not confident about the whole system. BTW, at uni I'd like to study journalism.
I would like to know a bit more about subjects I'm tending to chose and they are the following:
English Lit HL (I really do need to find out whether it's possible for me as an actual resident of a non-english speaking country to deal with all the difficulties of this subject. I mean like, can anybody give me at least rough list of books to be studied during the IB)
History HL (no questions about that, history is history)
Global Politics/Film HL (not sure about which to take! Is Global Politics HL difficult?)
Maths SL (Anybody! What is the difference between regular Maths and Maths Studies? In my country we only have compulsory algebra&geometry)
Italian ab initio (I would really like to take French, but unfortunately I have no clue about this language and IB French requires at least A at GCSE)
And... Science. This is the biggest problem. Hesitating between physics SL and environmentl studies SL(I'm definetely not a science person even though it's not a problem for me to cope with it, i simply don't enjoy science)
What would you advice? I really need your answers.
Thanks!