<p>Of the options available for SL chem and picking three of the six, which three do you think is the easiest to study in a month?
1) higher physical organic chem
2) medicines and drugs
3) human biochem
4) enviormental chem
5) chemical industries
6) fuels and energy
problem is our teacher has not covered any of the options yet in detail.
So for the SL IB chem test, do you pick 3 of the 6? Or is it 2 of 5 ( what our teacher said)?</p>
<p>I think you choose two of six (generally environmental chemistry and medicines and drugs are the easiest to study). However, not positive.</p>
<p>For the IB exam, you do two options. They give you a booklet with the questions for all the options, and you choose two sections. </p>
<p>Play your strengths. If you're good at bio, environmental, medicines, and biochem are probably easier. If you're a physics person, fuels and chem industries will be easier. Organic is usually only easy if you're really good at chem or if you did it in class. </p>
<p>Also consider buying the book "Chemistry for the IB Diploma" by Geoff Neuss. It definetly gets the credit for my excellent Chem HL paper 3 (I did options G and H, organic and analytical, which were the ones my class studied - they're the HL only ones). </p>
<p>Definitely buy the book cowgirlatheart mentioned if you haven't yet. It's the only reason I haven't failed this class yet. (I'm in HL, too, and we are also doing analytical and further organic.) :eek:</p>
<p>cowgirlat heart and cameliasinensis: What scores are you guys projecting for the HL Chem exam?</p>
<p>I actually have no idea. My average in the class is about a 6+; I don't think I can pull off a 7, but I'm hoping for a 6.</p>
<p>I wrote the exam in May 2006 - got a 7. The class average in my year, according to my school website, was 5.44 (1 x 3, 11 x 4, 24 x 5, 21 x 6, 11 x 7).</p>
<p>My school has a really good chemistry program. In 2005, we had two students on the national olympiad (out of 4 total for Team Canada). That being said, I really didn't get along with one of the IB chem teachers (nobody did really), so I made sure to avoid her after 10th grade. It helped.</p>
<p>I didn't find the option papers too difficult because we spent the entire first semester of grade 12 on organic, analytical, and maybe one other IB unit (kinetics/thermodynamics, if I remember correctly).</p>
<p>My teacher is a nice enough guy in a cynical, British sort of way, but he also has an enormous ego and basically doesn't know how to teach. Needless to say I'm not getting my hopes up -- to be honest, I'd be thrilled to get a 6.</p>
<p>That sucks - I found that the teacher I had in chemistry really affected my performance. It might just have been that one teacher, but still. She really was crazy - on our first ever titration, in the 10th grade, she took off 1% for each % error we had (and more if we had >5% error). Needless to say, we all learned how to invent data very quickly in that class. :)</p>
<p>Are we allowed a scientific calculator on paper 1 of the IB chem test?</p>
<p>scorpio08: I think you're not allowed your calc until the short answer portion (Paper 2). </p>
<p>cowgirlatheart: I wish I had as good a chem program at my school. Here, the majority of kids are along the 3-4 range (though I'm hoping to get around a 6-7 based on practice tests, etc.). It really sucks. My other science teacher told me that in the -- years he's been teaching, he's NEVER gotten a 7 (probably because of the HUGE moderation DOWN every year -.-; ).</p>
<p>Jakor - Arrrrrrrgh on lab moderation! Nobody in my SL biology class got a 7 in my year because our teacher marked like a first grade teacher - giving out points like candy (we even got bonus marks for bringing in food bank donations). It was good on the report card but terrible on the IB grades. I still got a 6, but my exam went really well so I'm sure it's the labs that did me in. Our labs were kind of ridiculous too. Fun, but I mean, when you do population genetics using teddy grahams (yes, the cookies)... yeah.</p>
<p>cowgirlatheart- Lol, lab moderation is totally lame. I'm hoping it's better this year because the more experienced teachers are coming in and went to this IB conference so..... hoping it's better. I love the labs we get to do in bio (dissections, DNA sampling) but write-ups.... eh... and don't even get me started about Group 4... v.v</p>