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Sleep is King! Do you struggle to focus during long days at school? Do you find yourself bored in biologyor kipping in Chemistry? The IB, GCSE, A-levels and GCSE are hard, it takes a lot of energy to do well. One of the big keys to success is getting plenty of sleep. FACT BOX: In a study…
You want IB points fast – that means you need to take good notes. Here’s how.  Why should I care about notes? There’s tons to remember in the IB Understanding DOES NOT EQUAL remembering. If you remembered everything you ever learned then you’d be a super-genius and could probably get on TV. Normal people need…
Pt. 8 – The Areas of Knowledge: The Arts, Ethics, Religious Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge This is the final blog post in this ToK series. If you’ve followed the series so far then well done! We’ve been through so much in the last few posts. If you haven’t been following along, go check out the previous…
Pt. 6 – The Areas of Knowledge: Knowledge Frameworks What are the Areas of Knowledge The Ways of Knowing, which we explored in the last two blog posts, are about how we know things. The Areas of Knowledge are a bit different; these are about what we know. You might remember that there were 8…
Pt. 5 – The Ways of Knowing: Imagination, Faith, Intuition and Memory What are the Ways of Knowing All knowledge comes from somewhere. Even if we say it is innate (comes from within us) we still have to say how that knowledge appears. The Ways of Knowing are what they sound like, the methods through which…
Pt. 3 – Knowledge questions and knowledge claims (or how I mastered IB ToK achieving the best grade – and how you can too!!!) Knowledge questions and knowledge claims are super central to ToK, in fact, the subject is based on them! In this section we’re going to learn what they are. Then we’ll think…
Pt. 2 – Types of Knowledge: Shared and Personal Divide and conquer! One good way to understand something difficult is to break it up. In ToK we are asked to look knowledge and try to understand how knowing works. One way the IB suggest we think about this is by breaking up knowledge in to…