<p>IB English A1 HL: 6 or 7, hoping for a 7. It's always been my best subject.
IB Mathematics SL: 4 or 5, probably(?) the latter. I'm no good at math. :(</p>
<p>Spanish shouldn't be too hard. The hardest part is under standing what they want in the directions. I took a practice exam (last year's test) and missed 9 on the first part, but 6 of those were because I wasn't sure what the directions were asking for. The essay isn't really hard either. Just don't make too many stupid grammar errors and write as much as possible...it's the IB way. :)</p>
<p>oh...oops...ignore above...^^^</p>
<p>megaman: Why will paper 3 bring you down? What option are you doing? (I suggest discrete math, from teachers' advice and looking at past papers it's the easiest imo)</p>
<p>IB Math Studies SL, my first IB exam, was pretty hard for me. It's basically Pre-Calc level math, which I haven't taken since sophomore year (our school wouldn't let me take the exam then), so I pretty much forgot half of the syllabus.
Namely, chi-square statistics(paper 1), truth tables (paper 1) linear regression/variable statistics (paper 2), and much more. x__x
However, calculus was useful on one of the questions on paper 2 today.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the grading scale for this exam?
(the points needed to get a 5, 6, 7 etc)</p>
<p>Orchid: No one does. It's banded, so how others do will affect your mark, but it's also criterion-referenced, so that will too. Even if we had approximate numbers (impossible, given that even examiners won't have them yet), they wouldn't help you much.</p>
<p>the scales change every year according to the overall performance, but ask your teacher to download the past year's grading scales. The IBO makes them available to each teacher for his or her respective subject.</p>
<p>History HL Papers one and two today were...bleh. Largely because we had to take AP Calc this morning, so everyone was prettu burned out.
Tomorrow we have paper three in the morning and HL Chem in the afternoon...gosh, testing season is fun.
After this week though, just a couple straggling tests left. Should be ok.</p>
<p>Just curious... what happens with the academic program at your schools when many students are absent from class bc they're taking their IB exams? </p>
<p>At my d's school, the policy is that if they have an IB exam in the afternoon, they don't have to come to school in the morning (so they can study more for the exam), but if it is in the morning they must attend classes in the afternoon.</p>
<p>I'm curious how other schools handle this... there really couldn't be much going on in the classes with so many IB kids absent...</p>
<p>I go to an IB school (96% of students complete the diploma), so the entire senior class takes the exams at the same time. Seniors' last day of class was April 20; after that we had a week and a half off to study, and there are no classes scheduled during exams.</p>
<p>My school is not entirely IB, however pretty much all the classes that IB kids take consist of only other IB students. Certainly in the senior year, in which all classes taken are geared toward the IB exam.
We, too, do not have classes at all during exams, and there really aren't any students who this affects. The IB curriculum has to be finished by the time of the test, so even if a non-diploma candidate was taking an IB class, it's not as though they would be missing out on learning.
Even in the younger years, where some students have electives that are not necessarily all IB students, they are excused for all of exam days, so I suppose they would simply have to make up any work done.</p>
<p>Here's the deal with my school...I'd say at least a third, if not half of my class is taking at least one IB course, however I believe we only have exactly 6 people graduating full IB, and they only started with like...13 in the first place.</p>
<p>whoa completely different from my school, we have about 110 full ib seniors, about 800 in total in the school and about 3000 regular students.. We can only do the full program not just take one class.</p>
<p>We have 49 Diploma candidates and two Certificate candidates in the class of '07 and a slightly higher number for '08 (they're a larger class). The Certificate candidates still take all IB courses (it's the only type of course offered), but I think they have a different distribution of HLs and SLs and probably don't write the Extended Essay.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty large public school (about 2200-2300 students). Senior class has 89? full diploma candidates and an innumerable number of certificate candidates.
For cameila: certificate students can take any tests they want, but they don't to the extended essay or CAS</p>
<p>1of42: we're doing the calculus extension option ( the one about series and stuff). We're all going to do awfully on our paper 3 because our teacher hasn't even finished covering all the material, and with the random class attendance due to other exams it seems unlikely that we'll be able to cover it. And even if we did, calculus is deifnitely not my strong point ( my main issue was that we started calc this semester, and I started slacking off this semester,. I stopped practicing and studying, so I have a bare minimum grasp on the topic)....yeha, we're pretty screwed haha</p>
<p>Rio mom: my school's policy is similar. If we have a test in the afternoon, then morning classes are not mandatory. And if you have a test in the morning and another one the next morning, then you get to skip your afternoon classes.</p>
<p>ahhh chem sl today was AWFUL</p>
<p>HL was worse. :eek:</p>
<p>So...for those of you who took History in either form yesterday(since SL and HL have the exact same Papers 1 and 2), what did you end up doing? I did the Stalin DBQ, Hitler's rise to power, and the effect of Cuba in the development of the cold war.</p>