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Along with all the other hardships that the Coronavirus is bringing, it is taking away our ability to study in groups. Many of us rely on working with other people as a way to keep us on track, make sure we’re not getting distracted, and to even explain concepts when you don’t understand them. This…
It looks like the IB will carry on as normal despite the crazy changes we are seeing around the world. As students, we know this is going to put an added strain on an already difficult diploma. So how can we work smarter even when we are forced to self-isolate? In this IB coronavirus advice…
We’re in the middle of a global crisis and the IB still insists that we work towards our diploma. When are we gonna catch a break? Many IB students will be off school for a prolonged period of time or will be working from home in the holidays before those final exams. How can we…
Sometimes, you just want a simple solution. That golden rule that guarantees a big improvement or success. I know how it is as an IB Diploma student. You just want someone to tell you exactly how to boost your IB score. Well, today I want to share with you a tried and tested method that…
What are they? As someone who has spent a lot of time in full time education (this is my 5th year of university!) I have noticed a very specific trend. At the start of term, everyone is loving life. You start school after spending some time quality holiday time with your family desperate to hang…
We all know how it feels to be inefficient: spending many hours “studying” without getting much productive work done can be incredibly frustrating, and is a drain on time and energy for IB students everywhere. What if you could spend LESS time studying, but still get MORE done in your day? If this sounds too good…
With your first year of IB coming to an end, over the last few weeks some of you may have found yourself staring longingly out the classroom window. With the sun making a few tentative appearances, turning the outdoors from drizzly grey to beautiful technicolour, this can only mean one thing. The summer holidays are…
We’ve all had that problem. We’re sitting in a lesson. We’re following what the teacher is saying. But there’s something that we just can’t get our head around. The binomial distribution maybe, or Plato’s Theory of Forms. We try to reread what we’ve just written in our notes. We think it through and… blank. It’s…
I feel like the art of note-taking, or at least of taking effective notes, is often underestimated. Yes, almost all of us make them in lessons, but it’s easy to forget how valuable they can be later on. Making awesome notes in the IB is especially important, as there is so much information across the…
Being lazy means not wanting to work hard when you don’t have. It means not wanting to do things the hard way and spend hours on something that you can get away with doing in minutes – or not doing at all. If you’re lazy, I like you, and you can still be awesome at…