<p>to gauge potential ability and rigor I suppose.</p>
<p>IB student here! I’m in for the whole haul and so far it’s been good but not great.</p>
<p>I just got my history IA score today…20/25. My teacher doesn’t even know what this translates to on the 1-7 scale >.></p>
<p>kenzie- that’d be a 7. </p>
<p>i’m mad that i dropped out of pre-ib spanish ii in ninth grade, i could have tested out this year and not be stuck in spanish iv senior year. there’s only one teacher and she ONLY speaks spanish. no english. i’m screwed, i’m awful in spanish.</p>
<p>A 7??? Awesome 
thanks a ton 
I’m quite pleased with that now</p>
<p>Parent of a 2010 IB graduate here. Whatever you do, get college essays or the EE done this summer. Nov.-Jan. will be brutal and your tank will be empty.</p>
<p>FWIW, none of S2’s schools asked for predicted scores. McGill, however, now requires them.</p>
<p>S was in a selective admit IB, 129 seniors. Loved TOK, Philosophy, Euro and Econ (he took a 7th subject). Felt that HL English committed foul, foul deeds to literature, though he wound up really liking the poetry! Did full IB plus 11 APs to maximize credit/placement. Agree with the poster who said that IB is good for across-the-board kinds of students vs. AP for specific interests.</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior and an IB student. IB at my school is a good way to torpedo one’s class rank, given that SLs which aren’t co-seated with AP classes are unweighted, along with ToK, and while the regular calc teacher gives out As like candy, the IB math grade is brutal. On the other hand, I can annihilate the English and History HL classes, and having chem co-seated with AP makes the SL a fairly easy test. That said, I should be working on my extended essay right now…</p>
<p>SLs imo are just as hard as AP classes, if not harder, save for physics and math. Chemistry too.</p>
<p>So what are you all doing for extended essay topics?</p>
<p>I’m doing a group 1 (English) essay about the play Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, comparing the two main male characters and their relationships to Eurydice, as well as some comparisons back to the original. Group 1 is ridiculously easy, though, I’m kind of regretting not choosing a more challenging subject area :-/</p>
<p>I’m doing a history paper on the political changes wrought in Central Asia by the creation and collapse of the Mongol Empire.</p>
<p>I have to say that people should go with an EE on english or math. English because you’re really just filling it all with analysis and literary evidence so you easily surpass the word limit and then the only trouble is cutting it down. Math, because you don’t need to worry about the word count but only the proof and theory. I honestly can’t imagine why anyone would do a history EE (because why? oh why? would you want to write another history paper?) or a science subject (so much lab work, too much, you basically need to start that EE sometime a year before it’s due). If you naturally speak spanish naturally then there is nothing better than doing your essay in spanish.</p>
<p>Dang, so I shouldn’t do a EE on String Theory?</p>
<p>English EEs are amazing and usually get high marks if written like it’s supposed to be. I wrote an English EE even though I’m a math and science guy. I have a predicted A and it was on Harry Potter. English EEs give such an opportunity to explore any type of literature and actually helps prepare you for English A1 HL paper 2.</p>
<p>I go to a high school with a core curriculum and all IB classes throughout our junior and senior year. It’s a magnet school and only about 300 students attend it. The program here is rough…junior year has been extremely long for me and after taking a year of IB i have to say I’m disappointed that IB revolves around solely memorizing tons of facts, which completely kills the point of learning. Although I have to admit my IB Bio class has been very informative and I really enjoy it due to having an excellent teacher and an even better book that explains things very well. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Hmm… I think I have a clue of the IB school you go to. Where’s your school at? </p>
<p>My IB school has the coolest IB coordinator, and he makes it flexible.
He said I finish my diploma requirements by taking 2 SL exams, and Comp Sci HL would be an extra certificate. I’m happy.</p>
<p>Well, the whole thing with IB EEs is that you have a theory and you then provide some evidence. So if you can somehow provide evidence of string theory with tons of labs. It has to be actual visible evidence, documentations of experiments and all that nonsense, but if you have a hardon collider go for it. The thing to remember is that this isn’t just a paper, it proving your theory on something. History theories requires tons of research and looking at different primary sources. Math theories require tons of proofs and even some real world applications. Science requires tons of lab work, I mean a lot, all documented. And English is easiest because your evidence is right there in the book so it just depends on how you twist it. (also: lucky swim2daend, my coordinator wouldn’t let me do my EE on comics or sherlock holmes because she felt it was too modern)</p>
<p>^ Damnit, I might as well choose a simpler physics concept. Maybe waves, or common physics.</p>
<p>I’m doing an English EE too, on The Book Thief. MIT, you could do a physics EE without much primary research according to my teacher but I don’t know how much to trust him.</p>
<p>What’s it about? I read the book thief, can’t think what I’d write it on. Man, I so would have done it on comics, my coordinator told me there was no way I could. Sucks.</p>
<p>But yeah, I wanted to do a bio-ish one on plants listening to music (similar to the mythbusters one but using a variety of plants and trying to find out why certain music helped plants) and my teacher told me that I’d basically kill my entire summer because of all the repeated labs I’d have to do to have any substance. I wouldn’t mind doing a physics one either but just all the time that’d be put in to it.</p>
<p>lol I have a bit too much on my hands.
The only person to discourage me from doing it would be my 10th grade MYP Chem teacher. I’m planning on doing the physics one, or a major mathematics proof that only me and my future Math HL 2 teacher could do.</p>