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Why did you choose IB?

Reply 80

Mazraz

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Ive applied for an ib college- and i really want to go- in all seriousness is is a bad choice?

Reply 81

umaker

Mazraz

Ive applied for an ib college- and i really want to go- in all seriousness is is a bad choice?

definitly not! we may bitch and complain and all kinds of stuff but occasionally ull find us also writing about howmuch this course has ment to us. i think its a great choice. i may regret taking it but i prefer it over a-levels. sounds a bit conterdictory, but honestly through out the course ull think u were a fool to take it, ull curse at me and think hat fool online that said it was great, but honetly im 3 exams off finishing and im already starting to miss it, and i know several student have have done ib and said the same thing, u walk out the course loving it. it has helped me miture and grow and achieve things i never though i could. and most of all its a triving course where as alevels is dying and this course is much better prep for uni. i say go for it without a hesitation.

Reply 82

NotSmartEnough

cuuba

I like your signature Dave... "RO TULS" :biggrin:

haha..

hahaha they took out my education about porn... im so pissed :mad:

Reply 83

cuuba

OP

NotSmartEnough

hahaha they took out my education about porn... im so pissed :mad:

that's sux, coz your previous signature meant a lot for me and also it was very true :wink:

Reply 84

doggieboi

LOL... yah in my area everyone gets the illusion that IB can get them to ivy league base on a few previous cases but everyone ends up finding that it was just a rumor :biggrin:

That's sad cause now we have some disappointed ppl in our school~ well I did it b/c I was in middle year and pre-IB so... it seems unreasonable not continuing

Reply 85

LindyGirl

American school is so boring...by the end of eighth grade I knew I hadn't learned a single thing for three years, and not a single person there had an ounce of motivation. IB was a godsend. I honestly would not have made it through high school without something to keep my mind occupied. It's still a fairly small program - our senior class is about 70 full and 4 certificates. We don't really offer certificates, except in the cases where you know you can't pass one of your tests, or just don't have time to finish it, but don't want to drop your IB classes. I always sort of assumed this is the way it usually is, but I see now that it's a bit different in different places.

Reply 86

locutionatoress

1

I'm wondering what to do if your teachers suck, your school's on it's first year of IB, and you feel like you can't learn anything surrounded by such an authoritarian system...?

I'm still in my first year of IB so there is the option of doing something else, but that would brand me a give-upper and I don't think I can take that.

Reply 87

umaker

hazi_17

I'm wondering what to do if your teachers suck, your school's on it's first year of IB, and you feel like you can't learn anything surrounded by such an authoritarian system...?

I'm still in my first year of IB so there is the option of doing something else, but that would brand me a give-upper and I don't think I can take that.

in my case even tou my school is not in first year ib, but several year into the program our teachers suck, specially the physics and math, and that really pissed me off coz this is the only IB school in the country, and i unerstand its hard to bring good teacher from abroad becsaue of the teacher concern of safety, so basically we get stuck with the bad money hungry teacher, most the time. basically they dont teach to well or at all, my phy teacher is like a uni professor, he says these are hte formulas, try to use them, its all i nthe text book(they dont give us the ib physics text book but a uni level text book), so i end up paying the school several thousand dollars a year and dont get much back, but the arrange the ib course, which i have to pay for seperately too. i figured is im spending so much money might as well do it right, so i got an external tutor to help me, charges a hell of alot, but helps so damn much. i wnet thru 2 different tutor for phy till i found one i liked and 3 for math. but now i know mu ****. u got hope coz i only started december of my second year(i was a bit late to realize i really needed the help) so my advice would be do the work urself, and wher u get stuch have an external tutor to help u out. gd luck

Reply 88

octobersky

Much like the topic starter, I was forced into this. And now I find myself in a murky and plentiful amount of stressful waters called "the IB".
Oh well...

Reply 89

yokki_girl

mmm i took IB because im living in Bosnia and Hercegovina (im Spanish ) and that was my only option if i didnt want to be self taugh for each subject, i see it lika a nice experience which help u a lot to get more mature and to study as we will do in university, anyway i think i see it so nice because the hell is almost endeeeed weeeeeeeeeeeeee :biggrin:

Reply 90

scorpio611

its interesting but my school started the ib, i go to school in geneva, so some ww2 history stuff.... sooooooo yeh, really no choice on that front...

Reply 91

cuuba

OP

Is anyone happy that he/she chose IB?

Personally, I think that it is not THAT bad, especially when you have study halls in the library with your classmates :wink:

Reply 92

bleeper

11

A lot of you guys hate IB you should have done the much superior A levels. they allow you to study subects in depth and a wide variety of subject. I do triple science A level and As philosopy and politics.

Reply 93

Emmy B

A levels suck. I almost did them then came to my senses. IB is much harder than A levels. U dont no what ur talking about

Reply 94

umaker

Emmy B

A levels suck. I almost did them then came to my senses. IB is much harder than A levels. U dont no what ur talking about

damn rite emz! a levels is ****! all my cuzs and all my friends in the UK done/doing it and they all know its ****! IB rules, we complain but deep inside we all know it was a great experiance...atleast it was for me!

Reply 95

Emmy B

Defo. I'm doing the IB in the Uk. Our college also does A levels and i had the choice but i chose IB. we may all groan but deep down we no we made the right choice. A levels may give you more free time but we get way more out of the course than they ever would!!!!

Reply 96

bleeper

11

Depends on which subjects you do. If you do sciences expect lots of work.

Reply 97

umaker

bleeper

Depends on which subjects you do. If you do sciences expect lots of work.

bleeper IB is better, end of it, theres no comparison between the 2.

Reply 98

me_123

There are basically two systems where I live; the IB and the local concoction. When I started school my parents decided to place me in an international school so that I could practise both my languages, and since then I have stayed. I wouldn't say I am an excellent student, but I do my best, and the local set-up has never really appealed to me. I don't know why. My mother even tried to make me see that there were other options, but I didn't listen... I'm still wondering if I regret doing that =p I complain, like most people, but I know that it will be worth it in the end. At least I hope so.

Reply 99

cuuba

OP

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