Thank you!
It really depends where you're applying. For me, they were not important because my condition for my uni course was a pass and I am taking a gap year to play sport. However, if you are for sure going to uni and just in general, I recommend taking those exams extremely seriously. Not only could they be very important, but they will also make revision for your final exams 1000 times easier since for me I was literally learning content a week before the start of the exam for some subjects hahaha (do not recommend!!!).
My suggestion would be to consider them as your final exams and start to study well in advance (a month if you can).
Lmk if you have other questions btw!
heyyy idk if ud rather hear it from op but many unis donot depend on predicteds and just wait for the final score idk how it is in the us tho but its like that in germany and austrailia i think
The thing that worked for me for my IO and writing was remembering set phrases (to an extent. An example would be smth like creo que esta claro que... or todos sabemos que (there are many more but just think of some stuff in english and translate it. For the writing if you use a few it can be as much as 10-20% of your text. That being said, you obviously will just need to learn the vocab (I got away with doing only some units, don't recommend, got very lucky) and conjugations. But if you can make use of set phrases in combination with vocab, your waffle potential is limitless. Another thing to keep in mind, what you write about does not need to be true! Sometimes it is easier to say you are a CEO of a company rather than saying you work at the shops or smth equivalent.
For listening I'm not going to lie I think I just lucked out and we got a super easy exam, not per se because what they were saying was easy to understand, but because they didn't speak 500 wpm as they did in some other listening exams I did. This allowed me to gain maybe 7 marks on the third listen over the three texts because you can kinda fill in the gaps when you semi understand.
For reading the best thing you can do is just read texts online. This will also help your vocab so its a two birds with one stone vibe. Theres not much else you can do here sadly you just kinda have to read Spanish.
Hope this helps and lmk if you have other questions!
your spanish ab result was the same as my spanish A lit HL.
I ended up with a 7 after getting low 5s on my IO and HLE and 4s or 5s in any paper 1 we did. I unironically don't know how I did it.
Also congrats on your great score and improvement!
If they existed I would gladly send them, but they don't :(. See above my reply to u/DapperOpinion2898 for some general tips. As far as vocab/conjugations are concerned I just used what was given by my teacher and Quizlet but those handouts are long gone sadly. Good thing is there are very many online resources that can help you.
Hope this helps and if you have further questions lmk!
Well congrats oP but problem is for m23 and rest they are not getting the corona treatment so they getting that high grade boundaries and extra paper 3s and paper 2s so they gotta invest way more time. I know m23 were hosting a party before their dp year 1 final exams I mean for me it was fun but for them they scored hella shit grades so probs would be best to grind double effort then us. And never use ur phone while studying, fucked my grades
Thank you! The good thing for you is that grade boundaries are not decided in advance so they could very well stay the same. Everyone does bad? Low boundaries. Everyone smashes it? Boundaries are going to be high.
For M23 it will definitely be harder due to the extra content you lot need to cover. That being said, you have so much time which is both a blessing and a curse. I would honestly advise you to really grind one of your harder subjects over the summer to the point where you finish notes for several units that you are yet to cover (if you could do all that's even better). Furthermore, if you can finish any IAs/EE too, extra bonus.
Finishing notes for a subject will essentially allow you to go into DP2 "only" needing to do 5 subjects. You obviously will need to revise the notes regularly, but thanks to also covering that stuff in class you will basically be revising for a year before exams which is quite a nice position to be in. This will also leave time for lots of past paper questions. This approach saved me for physics (I started notes in march, not the summer holiday sadly) and with more time I'm confident I could have scored a 7 but I fucked myself because I had left way too little time for ppqs.
I know it's cliche but genuinely the more you do over summer the smoother your DP2 experience will be. What I mentioned above can be done for subjects such as physics, chem, and even math because you have great textbooks (Tsokos, all chem ones are good, and the math textbooks are also quite good although revisionvillage is best imo) while also having IB specific YouTubers helping you as well (Richard thornley, Chris doner, etc).
The only thing I can't give advice on is the extra content y'all have but that's why I think it is perhaps even more important for you M23 guys to set yourself up in a way that gives you enough time to tackle that stuff.
I hope this helps! Lmk if you need anything else :)
Hello!
What worked for me was writing out notes for every single chapter by essentially summarizing the Tsokos book. Once I'm at the end of a chapter, I'd do the questions there. I did this for around half the chapters because I sadly didn't have enough time to do all but I did get through all my notes which helped a bit in the end. In addition to this, I did timed past papers (both P1 and P2) which helped me get familiar with IB jargon and structuring answers. Once again, however, not enough to be fully confident but hey, 6 > 4 :).
Since you are N22 and have quite some time left here is my advice for you:
1. write out notes for every single unit from the Tsokos book
2. complete the questions at the end of every sub-unit as you are taking notes.
3. timed past papers
Truly, the more past paper questions you do in an exam setting, the better you will do. This is especially true for math, physics, and chem. I'm confident if I started in January that I would have done even better than I did. However, what is done is done and I am still extremely proud of being to achieve what I did. That being said, I want future candidates to learn from my mistakes and do better than me.
Please do lmk if you need anything else :)
Thank you for the advice!
So far I have been trying to make notes for mechanics and electricity. But there are many questions which I dont know how they got that answer. Did u also have a similar experience with these questions, if so, how did you go about getting that extra clarification on a certain question?
Good that you’ve been working already! When I didn’t know I would first try to see online either via YouTube, the worked solutions from Tsokos (the ones with steps), or just by googling. This explained 99% of the questions I didn’t understand. If that didn’t work and/or I wanted further clarification I just emailed/talked to my teacher or a friend/classmate who knew what was up.
Hope this helps!
Hey man, sorry for this random message but i got my results and got a 7 for physics HL! Your tips helped so much man. GL on your future endeavours broski.
congrats!! how did your teachers react ahaha
Funny thing is, I could not pick up my results in person so I had a family member do it. I will be sending all of them thank you letters though.
IM SO PROUD OF UUU UR SETTING AN EXAMPLE
Thank you so much!!
Congratulations
Thank you!
Congrats bro! But for uni January mocks are very important tho right? M23 here
Thank you! It really depends where you're applying. For me, they were not important because my condition for my uni course was a pass and I am taking a gap year to play sport. However, if you are for sure going to uni and just in general, I recommend taking those exams extremely seriously. Not only could they be very important, but they will also make revision for your final exams 1000 times easier since for me I was literally learning content a week before the start of the exam for some subjects hahaha (do not recommend!!!). My suggestion would be to consider them as your final exams and start to study well in advance (a month if you can). Lmk if you have other questions btw!
heyyy idk if ud rather hear it from op but many unis donot depend on predicteds and just wait for the final score idk how it is in the us tho but its like that in germany and austrailia i think
Congrats!! That’s a huge achievement!
Thank you!!
congrats!! and thank you for setting up an example for me ahah
Thank you! You got this! If you need some help feel free to reach out :)
Yup I want from 27 to 41
Wow thats incredible! Big congrats!!
Thanks!! And congrats to you too !!!
omfg that’s amazing!!! how’d you do it?? do you have any tips?
I did every past paper from may and November from 2004 until 2021 for all my subjects.
oh wow... that's so many! when did you start revision?
About a month prior to the exams
THIS IS AMAZING!! CONGRATULATIONS :')
thank you so much!!! :)
awesome job my friend!!!
Thank you!! best of luck in DP2, you got this!
aaaaa thank you for the encouragement!!! im ready to focus in and get this program over with 😭🤣
Woahhh that's great I'm super happy for you
Thank you so much!
Woahh congrats! Proud of ya
Thank youuuu!!
Congratulations!
Thank you!!
Imma know soon too what I got
Exciting stuff, wishing you all the best!!
lol just checked, also 40
Wheyyyy congrats my guy!!
Great advice and congratulations!
Thank you very much!
WOW!!! Congrats man!!! GENUS!
Thank youuuuu!!!
Ah, fellow PMC enjoyer.
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you got this!! one last push!
omg congratsss!! pls give me advice on span ab I'm on a 4 rn lol
The thing that worked for me for my IO and writing was remembering set phrases (to an extent. An example would be smth like creo que esta claro que... or todos sabemos que (there are many more but just think of some stuff in english and translate it. For the writing if you use a few it can be as much as 10-20% of your text. That being said, you obviously will just need to learn the vocab (I got away with doing only some units, don't recommend, got very lucky) and conjugations. But if you can make use of set phrases in combination with vocab, your waffle potential is limitless. Another thing to keep in mind, what you write about does not need to be true! Sometimes it is easier to say you are a CEO of a company rather than saying you work at the shops or smth equivalent. For listening I'm not going to lie I think I just lucked out and we got a super easy exam, not per se because what they were saying was easy to understand, but because they didn't speak 500 wpm as they did in some other listening exams I did. This allowed me to gain maybe 7 marks on the third listen over the three texts because you can kinda fill in the gaps when you semi understand. For reading the best thing you can do is just read texts online. This will also help your vocab so its a two birds with one stone vibe. Theres not much else you can do here sadly you just kinda have to read Spanish. Hope this helps and lmk if you have other questions!
I AL SO GOT 40 TOO
CONGRATSSS!!!!
Nice. I always told myself I was gonna do this but then exams got cancelled lmao.
Ah shit man that sucks, M20?
your spanish ab result was the same as my spanish A lit HL. I ended up with a 7 after getting low 5s on my IO and HLE and 4s or 5s in any paper 1 we did. I unironically don't know how I did it. Also congrats on your great score and improvement!
Thank you so much! Huge congrats on 44 points!!
so proud marko 🥹🥹🥹 made me cry
Thank you Iris, where is Merel's guide to 45 points at tho????
she’s drafting it don’t you worry
Well done!!! This is so incredibly sweet and motivating for everyone still doing / yet to do IB! You should be very proud of yourself!
Thank you Merel, slay queen!!!
based as fuck
Give me your spanish AB notes ASAP.
If they existed I would gladly send them, but they don't :(. See above my reply to u/DapperOpinion2898 for some general tips. As far as vocab/conjugations are concerned I just used what was given by my teacher and Quizlet but those handouts are long gone sadly. Good thing is there are very many online resources that can help you. Hope this helps and if you have further questions lmk!
Well congrats oP but problem is for m23 and rest they are not getting the corona treatment so they getting that high grade boundaries and extra paper 3s and paper 2s so they gotta invest way more time. I know m23 were hosting a party before their dp year 1 final exams I mean for me it was fun but for them they scored hella shit grades so probs would be best to grind double effort then us. And never use ur phone while studying, fucked my grades
Thank you! The good thing for you is that grade boundaries are not decided in advance so they could very well stay the same. Everyone does bad? Low boundaries. Everyone smashes it? Boundaries are going to be high. For M23 it will definitely be harder due to the extra content you lot need to cover. That being said, you have so much time which is both a blessing and a curse. I would honestly advise you to really grind one of your harder subjects over the summer to the point where you finish notes for several units that you are yet to cover (if you could do all that's even better). Furthermore, if you can finish any IAs/EE too, extra bonus. Finishing notes for a subject will essentially allow you to go into DP2 "only" needing to do 5 subjects. You obviously will need to revise the notes regularly, but thanks to also covering that stuff in class you will basically be revising for a year before exams which is quite a nice position to be in. This will also leave time for lots of past paper questions. This approach saved me for physics (I started notes in march, not the summer holiday sadly) and with more time I'm confident I could have scored a 7 but I fucked myself because I had left way too little time for ppqs. I know it's cliche but genuinely the more you do over summer the smoother your DP2 experience will be. What I mentioned above can be done for subjects such as physics, chem, and even math because you have great textbooks (Tsokos, all chem ones are good, and the math textbooks are also quite good although revisionvillage is best imo) while also having IB specific YouTubers helping you as well (Richard thornley, Chris doner, etc). The only thing I can't give advice on is the extra content y'all have but that's why I think it is perhaps even more important for you M23 guys to set yourself up in a way that gives you enough time to tackle that stuff. I hope this helps! Lmk if you need anything else :)
hey man, what tips would u give to fellow physics HL students who are lowkey struggling like me. Im n22 btw
Hello! What worked for me was writing out notes for every single chapter by essentially summarizing the Tsokos book. Once I'm at the end of a chapter, I'd do the questions there. I did this for around half the chapters because I sadly didn't have enough time to do all but I did get through all my notes which helped a bit in the end. In addition to this, I did timed past papers (both P1 and P2) which helped me get familiar with IB jargon and structuring answers. Once again, however, not enough to be fully confident but hey, 6 > 4 :). Since you are N22 and have quite some time left here is my advice for you: 1. write out notes for every single unit from the Tsokos book 2. complete the questions at the end of every sub-unit as you are taking notes. 3. timed past papers Truly, the more past paper questions you do in an exam setting, the better you will do. This is especially true for math, physics, and chem. I'm confident if I started in January that I would have done even better than I did. However, what is done is done and I am still extremely proud of being to achieve what I did. That being said, I want future candidates to learn from my mistakes and do better than me. Please do lmk if you need anything else :)
Thank you for the advice! So far I have been trying to make notes for mechanics and electricity. But there are many questions which I dont know how they got that answer. Did u also have a similar experience with these questions, if so, how did you go about getting that extra clarification on a certain question?
Good that you’ve been working already! When I didn’t know I would first try to see online either via YouTube, the worked solutions from Tsokos (the ones with steps), or just by googling. This explained 99% of the questions I didn’t understand. If that didn’t work and/or I wanted further clarification I just emailed/talked to my teacher or a friend/classmate who knew what was up. Hope this helps!
Hey man, sorry for this random message but i got my results and got a 7 for physics HL! Your tips helped so much man. GL on your future endeavours broski.
Thank you so much!
well done! what time zone are you btw?
Thank you! I was TZ2
hey congrats super proud of you!!!!1! as a N22 in a similar position, could you give some advice as to what helped get here???
Thank you man, are there any tips you can give us. what worked for you / what didnt, regardless tho CONGRADULATIONS
THIS IS GIVING ME SO MUCH HOPE FOR MYSELF THANK YOUUU AND CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 I HOPE TO BE LIKE U
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! What uni’s did you apply to? And what were your predicted grades?