<p>To those of you in the IB, or who have done the IB:</p>
<p>What did you love the most about the program?</p>
<p>What did you dislike the most? (Tok? CAS? The EE? World Lit?)</p>
<p>Which subjects gave you the most trouble? Which gave you the most satisfaction?</p>
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<p>(I'm asking these questions instead of working on some IAs... I love the IB, but it can be such a pain at times!)</p>
<p>thing i hate abotu IB is that there so many tests omg. at least 2 tests a week for someo of my classes never ends</p>
<p>I'm a freshman so the only full IB course I can take is IB-SL Math Studies --- it gives surprisingly little work, actually. Definitely less than my Pre-IB Geography class.</p>
<p>I not doing the full program, just the following:</p>
<p>IB French SL
IB English HL
IB European History HL
IB Math HL</p>
<p>In addition, I'm doing AP Biology and Choir this year, and AP Physics C and Choir next year. I'm not doing the full diploma because:</p>
<p>a) I can't give up choir. I love it too much and the school doesn't offer IB Music.
b) I can't stand the idea of taking only Biology (there's no IB Physics). I'd really like to be able to take physics before I graduate.</p>
<p>And that's what I'm left with. So far, the workload isn't really that bad. English is pretty hard, though. (Its weird not reading British or American Lit. We're doing the works in translation component next semester; that ought to be interesting. I've read a few translated books (Les Miserables, The Metamorphosis, a couple others) so we'll see how it goes!)</p>
<p>I am currently doing the IB program, and I defintely have enjoyed going in depth in certain subjects and really grasping the meaning as opposed to rushing through a text book and not touching on anything of real substance. I dislike the EE the most, although I am only just starting it, but doesn't every IB student? I have had he most difficulty with math, but then again so is the rest of the class. I have defintely had the most satifaction after completing a very good presentation in English.</p>
<p>Disneyguy -- is your school in Minneapolis?</p>
<p>TOK is the absolute worse. At first I was going to say the EE but.. ya.. At least for the EE you can have some sort of fun/purpose. TOK is just pointless...</p>
<p>IB is too strict...you get no credit for the IB diploma for taking IB classes 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, or 10th grade, etc. Until you are an upperclassmen.</p>
<p>The languages rape and that is pretty much it.</p>
<p>If you went to an immersion elementary school, the language classes are ideal, or so I hear.</p>
<p>As a sophomore, I'm only taking one IB class (IB computer studies) and it surprisingly gives very little homework and is relatively easy. I mean octal hexidecimal and binary seem very basic.</p>
<p>I did IB Underwater Basket Weaving. Intense, man....</p>
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Disneyguy -- is your school in Minneapolis?
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<p>I go to school in SW suburbs--Minnetonka.</p>
<p>mj93, how are you taking an actual IB class already? I'm also an IB freshman, and we are absolutely not allowed to take ANY IB classes until 11th grade, when the program actually starts. I'm pretty sure I'm qualified for at least one, but we weren't given that option. How do you take yours?</p>
<p>I'm also in the Ib program, but freshman can only take honors history, english, and science and only honors geometry or honors algebra 2.</p>
<p>In our school kids in the magnet program get to take IB Diploma starting sophomore year. As far as I know, we are the only HS in the nation to do that though.</p>
<p>at my school ib is kind of a joke.. i did it just because i thought it would be easier than taking a crapload of ap classes.. but now i realized i have to take the ap tests anyway just because i probably won't ever get much ib credit but yet i still have to pay over 600 dollars for the ib exams. i mean that's not stupid or anything..</p>