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I did, yeah. It was the best choice for me bar none. A lot, if not most people in my class said if they could redo it they wouldn't pick the IB a second time. I think that's just a silly revisionist stance, the grass is greener. I definitely would, what's more I miss the organization and the order the IB has at university level. You think because it's an institution of "higher learning" things are gonna make sense and be organized, but it's not. You get graded on things without ever knowing the criteria beforehand, you take exams without knowing the syllabus, it's ridiculous. The IB has its problems, but the way it's organized is pretty unique and impressive. It's what an organized school is.

I graduated in 2001.

Where are you taking it?
Interesting, top post, Martin.
I'm taking:
SL: French, Environemntal Studies, & Math Studies (Maths isn't exactly my forté)
HL: Psychology, Business, & English.

It's quite challenging/difficult, I hear there's a lot more work in the first year then you're graduating year is this true?

IB graduate in 2002.
Neat.. :tup:
 

Martin

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Interesting, top post, Martin.
I'm taking:
SL: French, Environemntal Studies, & Math Studies (Maths isn't exactly my forté)
HL: Psychology, Business, & English.

It's quite challenging/difficult, I hear there's a lot more work in the first year then you're graduating year is this true?


Neat.. :tup:
That's not what they used to say here, but you're not taking a single course in common with what I took (the IB school I went to was tiny and there was basically no choice in courses).

I took Mathematics, Physics, History, Norwegian, English and Polish.
 

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That's not what they used to say here, but you're not taking a single course in common with what I took (the IB school I went to was tiny and there was basically no choice in courses).

I took Mathematics, Physics, History, Norwegian, English and Polish.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. 3 languages? Were you semi-fluent before taking the course though? And Physics + Maths HL the hardest there is.. :beer:
 

Martin

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. 3 languages? Were you semi-fluent before taking the course though?
I did Polish A1 self taught, which was a total joke. There was a coordinator who was telling me what to expect, what the deadlines were, but he wasn't really up to date on it. Norwegian B was dead easy cause I speak it natively and English B was easy too.

Polish and Norwegian are native to me, and English pretty much has become so it's they're not foreign languages. I could have taken Chemistry instead, which would have been a ton of work.

And Physics + Maths HL the hardest there is.. :beer:
Physics is doable, but Math was a bitch. I got a 4 on the exam so. The year before that I took the Math Methods exam and it was a lot easier.
 

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I did Polish A1 self taught, which was a total joke. There was a coordinator who was telling me what to expect, what the deadlines were, but he wasn't really up to date on it. Norwegian B was dead easy cause I speak it natively and English B was easy too.

Polish and Norwegian are native to me, and English pretty much has become so it's they're not foreign languages. I could have taken Chemistry instead, which would have been a ton of work.



Physics is doable, but Math was a bitch. I got a 4 on the exam so. The year before that I took the Math Methods exam and it was a lot easier.
I see, its a lot harder to start from the beginning hence I refrained from picking Abinitio Spanish, you're lucky you could pick something you speak nativly. Ah ok, you took the method a year earlier I see..
 

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