[chickyl3aby]

Well IB testing started yesterday with IB English HL Paper 1. Today was Paper 1 of the math... So what are you IBers testing in? And how well prepared do you think you are for it?

I'm testing only in IB English HL and IB Chemistry HL... so I'm just going for the certificates... Right now my English is pretty strong... I did okay on my oral exam before... and paper one was good. I just need to review my books again before the test on Monday. Chemistry on the other hand isn't as great... I need A LOT of reviewing...

[josebiwasabi]

^ haha lucky. only two subjects. i'm a diploma candidate :/

like you, i took the English HL paper 1 yesterday. i think i did fairly well. i chose the poem, which one did you choose?

math SL was today. i think i did well. i felt pretty confident on a lot of my answers.

[chickyl3aby]

haha i choose the passage... i read the poem once and was like what the heck...

and then i went to the passage... i liked it a lot

math SL.. ah... which two other classes r u taking then besides english?

today i took AP calculus AB... erm... that wasn't great.... i did okay. hopefully enough for a 3

[josebiwasabi]

i am actually taking 4 HLs.
English HL
History HL
Biology HL
Chemistry HL

the two SLs i am taking are Math (obviously) and Spanish.

the poem was actually really easy once i read it through a couple more times.

how long was your essay? mine was 3 pages front and back, plus the front of the 4th page... i think that was fairly average from what i've heard from my friends. and, luckily i talked about almost everything that other people talked about too. so... hopefully i scored well on it.

[chickyl3aby]

whoa... 4?? i think only 3 is required.... u're taking two science courses...? did u take ur elective class last year or something?

my essay..? it was the same as urs... i had 3 pages front and back and about half of the 4th page.... what scared me at first was i spent like 40 minutes outlining but when i was looking around everyone was doing the same thing...

i wish i was in class today to talk about the passage... stupid testing!! my teacher got all excited that he was getting the actual passage and peom today... but yeah i heard about the same things on my passage... i just wonder if i got the bigger overview picture of it... i tend to narrow things down a lil too much...

[josebiwasabi]

elective class? you mean my 6th subject? yeah. i opted for double-science... so usually the 6th subject would be an SL class, but since i chose chemistry for my 6th, it's HL.

i'm planning on going to med school (read that as taking lots of science courses in college), so i want to have a good background on what i'll learn in college.

and yes, i spend around 45min outlining my essay, as well. haha.

[krnforsale]

taking

english hl
biohl
history of the americas hl
calc/math sl
spanish sl

i took english paper 1- i chose to pros passage. i only did 3 pages front and back. but w/e

math paper 1- wasy but i missed 2 problems (like the sub questions)

math paper 2- the teacher never taught us vectors..i was scrwed for #5. i also forgot to find the normal to the w.e ..it was like 1.b...i feel stupid as hell

bio hl paper 1- pretty tough...i never really studied for bio so i was scrwed..

bio hl 2- better than paper 1..but still hard...ehhh..hope i get a 4 in bio

[josebiwasabi]

whew.

paper 2 in math was a lot more difficult than paper one. still, i think i scored... 'ok' overall. definitely not a 7 and probably not a 6, though.

for bio papers 1 and 2... paper 1 wasn't that bad. i think i did alright overall. judging from what my friends were saying, it seems like 33ish will be the cutoff for a 7.

and paper two. well, the data analysis was easy. like... really easy.

but the essays? oh geez. my responses were not nearly long/detailed enough to merit high marks on those.

oh well, what can you do....

...bio paper 3 tomorrow morning!

[chickyl3aby]

ah... good luck on bio... next week is history! good thing i'm not testing in that....

they teach HL American history before teaching SL history which i found really weird... i really like this year's teacher over last year's teacher.... i didn't learn anything in HL american history... and would have proabably failed... haha...

next week i think is psychology too... not sure! i would have taken that test except since i'm doing certificates... UW doesn't count SL testing individually...

well gotta do paper 2 in english next week... what works did u guys read? i read huckleberry finn, chronicles of a death foretold, ethan frome, and song of solomon... gotta reread huck though (i'm forgetting a lot of parts)..

[josebiwasabi]

^ we read a streetcar named desire, oedipus rex, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, and the importance of being earnest.

[krnforsale]

we read completly difffernt books..wow.

beloved, god of small things, stroies by flannery o'conner, and as i lay dying

i read rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead last yr

[josebiwasabi]

did you guys think the Paper 3 for Bio was a lot easier than Paper 2? (i mean in terms of essays)

[chickyl3aby]

ooo i read oedipus rex in 10th grade and as i lay dying last year as well... good books both of them...!

but wow we did read completely differen't books, i hope u guys do well on ur test on monday! i need to find some time to study for them !

ah i didn't take bio so i couldn't say... but i hope u did well

[moochelle]

are IB tests really hard?
like...as hard as the AP's?

i heard the IB tests were super easy, but this korean dude yesterday told me that his kid was in IB and they were the hardest tests ever created. -___-

[1SwtDeception]

I can't compare AP and IB since I've only taken one over the other. But IB isn't that bad. You just have to thoroughly explain.

But I'm so happy to get rid of my Computer Science IB test! They were easy, but my hand cramped a lot.

English + Computer Science = NOT GOOD IN ONE DAY!

I still have English Paper 2 and History! Crazy writing x.x.

It's interesting to see the books that are read in English. I read:
Mother to Mother
Native Son
Love Medicine
Their Eyes Were (Are) Watching God

These will be fun to compare.

History is just tiresome (physically). My hand will continue to die out slowly.... But I'm glad next week is my last week of testing ^_________^!

[josebiwasabi]

^ ooh, i read their eyes were watching God soph year. i wasn't a big fan of that one haha.

and yeah, the history essays will be rough in terms of writing. my hand is going to die, too.

as for the difficulty level of the IB tests?

well, i'd say with the IB exams, it's definitely easy to pass as long as you've paid attention in class. however, to achieve a mark of 6 or 7? that's where it gets difficult.

[krnforsale]

paper 3 bio was SO much more easier than paper 2..although i did i can't readty on option H...i should have done something else..

english paper 2 tommorow...

[I AM ON AWAY]

Even though I studied my ass off for it, Biology Paper 2 was HARD. My Biology teacher is a dumbass who didnt prepare us at ALL.

English, on the other hand, was fairly easy. I chose the poem.

[krnforsale]

do u know what the structure of the english peper 2 exam is tommorow? is it just list of pompts or something?

[chickyl3aby]

yeah, there will be different 6 genres:
1. drama
2. poetry
3. prose: the novel and short story
4. prose: other than the novel and short story
5. general questions on literature...

1-4 will have questions A and B that you can choose from, 5 has a,b,c,d that u can choose from...

for me, my english teacher said to only lookat #3 and #5 because those were the things we read/studied about and would apply best to writing the essay. so basically i have 6 questions to choose from..

anyways, i wish everyone luck on the english exam tomorrow!