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Below you will find in-depth reports, thought pieces on modern education, as well as hundreds of tips on how to excel at the IB.
IB Presentations Part 2 – Preliminary Research and Time Management
In this second part of our IB Presentations series, we will be discussing the two first things you need to be talking about when it comes to your presentations: preliminary research and time management. As you know, every IB student is assessed through presentations at some point. Obviously a ‘Great IB Presentation’ is one that…
5 Simple Steps for Redrafting your Extended Essay
You poured your heart and soul into it. You gave it your sweat, blood and tears (hopefully not blood). It took you a full year just to come up with a question in the first place. I’m talking, of course, about your Extended Essay. DP2 students, the time has come when schools are asking for…
Presentations Part 1 – What you need to do and why you need to do it.
In this first part of our Presentations miniseries, we look at the use of presentations. We discuss some of the times when you may need to present. Finally we talk about the benefits of doing presentations! Presentations – love them or hate them, as a student you will have to present at some point. Whether…
STUDY GROUP GUIDE
When I started high school (IB) I realised that things were not the same as they used to be. Nobody was feeding us knowledge anymore. A lot more of our studies were more independent and we needed each other to help get through the course. It’s a long time we’re in school. The last year…
How to Make Yourself Productive Over Holidays
I bet you’ve got good intentions and want to get things done. The summer is probably a time you were thinking of doing some IB work, but now it’s really hard to make yourself work. Don’t worry, everyone struggles to get stuff done sometimes. However, it is possible to allocate time in a way that…
How to beat the IB if you’re lazy
Being lazy means not wanting to work hard when you don’t have. It means not wanting to do things the hard way and spend hours on something that you can get away with doing in minutes – or not doing at all. If you’re lazy, I like you, and you can still be awesome at…
The Power of Focus in the IB
If I ask you about how you want to do in the IB, you’re probably thinking you want to do really well! Ok maybe you’re just hoping to pass at this point – but either way you have a score in mind you want to achieve. The struggle is attaining that score. But why is…
How to learn more quickly
Do you sometimes find yourself putting off work because you’re worried about starting it? Maybe you think it’s going to be too hard or that you won’t have time. Or maybe you’re OK at starting but you can’t keep going for that long? One of the keys to dealing with this is staying calm and…
5 things I wish I had known when I did the IB
You go to a party and someone is wearing the same outfit as you – if only you’d known! You’re playing COD and a camper kills you three times from the same hiding spot – if only you’d known! In the IB exam you don’t get the questions you wanted – don’t score the points…
Inside the brain of a procrastinator: how to avoid sabotaging your IB score.
There is fundamental cognitive difference between procrastinators and normal people. Everyone gets overwhelmed by work sometimes, even the busiest or most efficient people might feel overwhelmed when there’s too much work and not enough time. But the procrastinator is different. The procrastinator might have plenty of time but he puts off work until there isn’t…
