Anybody here do IB?

[Shalmanese]

Just wondering.
If you are what are you doing for your Extended Essay?

 

[Impact55]

^ Bump, I'm taking it next year .

 

[axelfox]

My brother did it (he's a freshman at UCI now), and he said it was the most waste of time ever. Now my sister, a sophomore, isn't going to do. A lot of his friends complained of how useless it was and how much crap you have to do.

 

[Isla]

My daughter is on the track, but I think we are just going to stay with good old AP. I'm sure it is worth it to some, but I don't want to be tearing my hair out over her homework!

I want her to have a life.

 

[Wangel]

I will be doing it soon.

 

[prodigy]

what is IB?

 

[ltk007]

yeah, what is it???

 

[SuperGroove]

International Bacceleaurate(sp?)

I hear the kids have no life...not even time to take showers

Paul

 

[Shalmanese]

hmmm, IB does sorta have a "machoistic" image to it, but really, its not that bad and the conversion scores are damn attractive

(I can fail IB and still get into a computer science course at a half-decent uni)


BTW: its spelt International Baccalaureate

 

[Shalmanese]

hmmm, IB does sorta have a "machoistic" image to it, but really, its not that bad and the conversion scores are damn attractive

(I can fail IB and still get into a computer science course at a half-decent uni)


BTW: its spelt International Baccalaureate

 

[Shalmanese]

hmmm, IB does sorta have a "machoistic" image to it, but really, its not that bad and the conversion scores are damn attractive

(I can fail IB and still get into a computer science course at a half-decent uni)

Fairly easy course (cept TOK which is just bullshit). People who lose thier life over IB havent got their prioritys straight.

Most of what you hear bout IB is really just myth and former students trrying to sound tough. I highly recomment it to anybody that is offered it if you want to get into a good uni whithout having to sweat away for it.

BTW: its spelt International Baccalaureate

 

[Imported]

Is it any different than AP and Honors classes?

 

[axelfox]

International Bullcrap

 

[Impact55]

Axelfox Contruction Worker.

 

[Handle]

I completed the full-diploma programme of the International Baccalaureate program just last year.

Although it is supposed to be a standardized programme, your experience in it will be based on a large number of factors. What subjects are offered at your school? What is the attitude of people in that school to that programme? Is it considered elitist and exclusive? Is it a strictly IB school? How experienced are the teachers at teaching the IB curriculum?

Now it's very difficult to know the answers to those questions before you experience it. For people who didn't enjoy the program, it may be because the students were hyper-competitive, the teachers were inexperienced, and they had very few or no choices. People who enjoyed it may have had great, experienced teachers, supportive and friendly classmates, etc. One advantage is that you are more likely to be placed in the company of people who are like-minded (theoretically, at least, if you're doing the IB program you are quite good academically, and will have less to worry about with respect to group projects, bookworm persecution (not that all IB students are bookworms), etc.)

In my opinion, your skills at writing essays will vastly improve due to the IB program, because you will do a lot of essay writing.

I don't have a tonne of time to explain everything in detail now, but if anyone has any questions about my experience and opinion on this program, just ask and I'll do my best to answer it, although I will reiterate that everyone's experience will be different based on personal disposition, school, peers, etc.