Increase my GPA while taking IB, possible?

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I’m in my sophomore year of high school and my overall GPA for both years is a 3.5/6. The only reason for this mediocre GPA is because until the beginning of the second semester of 10th grade I didn’t want to put so much effort in school (in fact my gpa for Q3 is a 94%/3.9 and right now Q4 it is 97%/4.0). So now I want to go on and try to increase my GPA but…

Next year I’m going to take IB no matter what (including HL math, HL chem, HL eng, SL physics), and I’m afraid that it is going to be hard to keep a high gpa while taking IB. So I wanted to hear your suggestions and comments about it.

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A. Are you going for the IB Diploma?
B. Does your school weight grades?

IB Diploma looks very impressive on college apps, even if the GPA isn’t a 4.0. It’s also more understandable to not get a 4.0 because the course work load is so much harder.
If your school weights grades then GPA will definitely go up just by taking these classes as long as you do as well as you have been because an “A” is a 5.0 instead of a 4.0