TIPS FOR IB STUDENTS
TIPS FOR SUCCESS IN IB
WHY IB PROGRAMME?
Here are the tips that help students navigate their path to success in the IB:
1. Focus on time management skills
2. Choose the subjects you enjoy.
3. Start reviewing material before you enter the classroom.
4. Take the class tests, assignments, and syllabuses seriously.
5. Balance between work and extracurricular activities
6. Take advantage of sources from the internet
A plethora of resources can help you understand topics that your teacher may not have gotten the first time in class. There are websites, blogs, and videos dedicated to the various topics covered by the IB that can simplify concepts or present them more interestingly. However, the IB curriculum changes often, so it’s important to ensure you are not learning outdated information; always refer back to the course guidelines your teachers have provided. The best and most effective way to get help or ahead is to use respected, IB-specialized tutoring services like Hack Your Course; however, if you do not have the means to do this, there are other excellent resources you can use. Your teachers can guide you toward these and steer you away from unhelpful or dubious pathways.
7. Familiarize yourself with exam papers and mark schemes
Many students naively put too much emphasis on reviewing material by reading the textbook over and over; however, active recall is one of the best ways to ensure understanding and retention. Active recall is the act of learning by constantly testing yourself, recalling answers without looking at the solutions actively. Using valid practice papers at the appropriate time is one of the best ways to improve this skill. This approach helps you review the course content and, more importantly, plan how to apply your knowledge of this content using the correct format. Your familiarization with each assessment’s criteria is fundamental to your success on the external assessments, internal assessments, and the exams you encounter in Groups 1-5 at the end of Year 2–your teachers have access to these and should provide them to you at the appropriate time during the course so that you know exactly how your work will be assessed. We also recommend that, in the three months leading up to the IB exams, you simulate the test conditions by giving yourself the exact amount of time you will have on the actual test day without access to notes. This will help you manage your time on the actual exam and help calm any nerves because you will know what to expect.
Many past papers also come with mark schemes that include “model answers”–often these include criterion-based examiner marks and written feedback justifying these marks. These are incredibly valuable in showing you how to format future answers and anticipate the approaches, skills, and terminology your examiners will look for in your responses. Again, your teachers have access to these samples and should provide them to you at the appropriate time. However, we do not recommend delving into exam papers without learning the course content first–memorizing past papers won’t help you because they change every exam session.
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8. Be proactive and reach out for support.
If you are having trouble understanding something, do not ignore it and move onto the next topic. Try to understand it immediately! IB is structured in such a way that new concepts build on old foundations. If you do not understand something and then choose to ignore it, you won’t understand newer concepts either, leaving a gaping hole in your knowledge.
Be proactive and ask your teacher, brainstorm with your friends, consult YouTube, etc. Your own resourcefulness is your best ally. If you are having a lot of trouble with a subject, look at other options such as getting a tutor, reducing the subject’s level (e.g. from HL to SL), or changing the subject if you can. If you have the means, the best option is to use the services of respected tutoring companies like Hack Your Course that have IB expertise.HYC IS THE USA & CANADA'S PREMIER IB & AP TUTORING SERVICE
How Can HYC Help IB Students?
Hack Your Course AP & IB Tutoring Service Is The Premier IB Institute of The USA and Canada with specially trained IB tutors. Tutors at Hack Your Course (HYC) who teach IB courses are either certified IB teachers or first-rate former IB students who are currently exemplary university students or have a Master’s or a Doctoral degree in the subject being taught. However, that is just the first part of the story; They all possess the requisite educational materials, closely follow the curriculum and goals specified by IB, and use the material provided and mandated by Hack Your Course IB Tutoring Service. They also prepare the students for all parts of the final examination in each subject by thoroughly reviewing the subject matter and employing previous examinations as practice exercises provided by Hack Your Course.
An IB diploma final examination (both SL and HL) contains three parts (Part 1 consists of multiple-choice questions, Part 2 involves short answers, and Part 3 assesses students’ in-depth understanding of an optional topic in the subject chosen by them). HYC tutors give the manner of successfully coping with the material in all three parts equal emphasis. The success of the HYC method of tutoring IB students is manifested by how well these individuals adapt to and perform during their subsequent university studies.
Our unique and one-of-a-kind online tutoring platform with all the hardware and software provided for our tutors makes the quality of the tutoring you receive unsurpassed. In addition, our rigorous quality control system helps us to follow our tutor’s work even closer in the online setting.
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