r/IBO • • Sep 06 '20

Welcome Post New to /r/IBO? Read this!

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Welcome to /r/IBO: a place to find useful IB resources and discuss the IB Diploma with fellow students and alumni.

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r/IBO • • 10h ago

others hi n26ers yes finally ibdocs are shut down 💀

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hi fellow n26ers. literally just finished bio hl fucking p1 tried to grind ib docs to prep for paper 2, only to see this crap (check screenshot).

nice freaking job ibo. absolutely flawless timing.

p1a and b already went pretty BADLY for me and now this? istg im so done.

lets survive guys.

p.s. according to ImpressThink1270, now we can visit and see its back uppppp!!!!!!

we can do this guys!!!


r/IBO • • 6h ago

Nov 2025 Exams My gift to everyone sitting the N26 IB Exam

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Everyone who is sitting in the November exams can have free access to my exam bank until their exams.

I've been teaching IB Physics 10 years now and I've never been satisfied with the exam banks.
It's great to have access to exams questions, but I dont want to spend ages scrolling through PDFs trying to find the write question.
If my student comes to me after an exam and asks me how to answers a question they struggled on, I want to be able to find a similar question for them to practise, in under 5 seconds.
With my exam bank, you can snap a picture of the question you're struggling on and use that to search for similar questions.
You can search by text picture or screenshot.
You can filter by topic, question type and difficulty.
I'm giving it away for free
This is because I've got everything ready with my website. I'll be launching next week but I still haven't set up the payment. I won't have it set up in time for the November exams but I still wanna help people so the only thing I can do really is to give it away for free.
Now, this will cost me, so I do have to put limits on the account, but if it didn't put limits on the accounts, then I wouldn't be able to offer it to everyone.

If you want access, I have to approve them manually go to examsearcher.com and join the waitlist.

Good luck to everybody in your exams


r/IBO • • 10h ago

Group 4 N26 BIO SL/HL what do we think is going to be on P2 tmrw...

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Do you think we can make guesses on what to cram last minute???


r/IBO • • 22h ago

Advice Graduated with 41. Now in med school. IB still worse

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I’m in med school and the load is as you would expect. But every day im so glad im not in the IB. Worst day of med school doesn’t even compare to that of the IB. Just thug it out and if uni sucks you can always fall back on not experiencing IB misery


r/IBO • • 11h ago

Group 4 Bio SL N26

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How did everyone go for bio? Students in my cohort found it difficult compared to the average past papers. Any opinions on grade boundaries?


r/IBO • • 9h ago

Nov 2026 exams For N26: Thoughts on your exam timeline?

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I think mine is pretty ok

Bio first = time to study bio and get that out of the way

--> nothing after that for like 5 days

LangB paper 1 next = time to memorise because of the large gap + a bunch of tests that need less memorisation after

--> weekend

Econs and maths = hopefully enough time to study econs


r/IBO • • 16h ago

Group 4 ib bio hl exam tmrw!!!!!!!

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i feel prepared tbh but how everyone else going? do u think ur hitting high marks?


r/IBO • • 10h ago

Group 3 History Paper 2 Topics PLS HELP

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Hi Im sitting the Nov 2026 exams, I do history HL and I was wondering for Paper 2 since im doing Topic 10 and 12 which is cold war and authoritarian states, exam questions mainly fall into 3 broad sub topics eg emergence, consolidation and maintenance, economic for Topic 10. I was wondering if i should only study 2 subtopics per topic? As it would be likely be the two essay questions would be from the different subtopics so the probability is like almost 100%. So like i do emergence and policies for Topic 10 and then do Cold War Crises and Leaders and Nation for Topic 12. I just think it'll be impossible to memorise essay plans for everything. PLEASE HELP!!


r/IBO • • 12h ago

Other Pre-exam rituals?

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Good luck to fellow N26!! I’m interested to hear all the little things people do before an exam, either the night before or the morning of
Also not sure if I should eat breakfast or not for a morning exam if I don’t usually


r/IBO • • 7h ago

Group 3 How to structure my BM 10 marker when questions like this come up?

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same as the title. For the second image, shld i like state 1 pro and 1 con for each option... is that the way to go for the bm 10 marker?..


r/IBO • • 5h ago

Advice ¿Cuáles fueron los temas en la P1 Bio NM?

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NO QUIERO LAS RESPUESTAS


r/IBO • • 5h ago

Group 5 2026 May IB AAHL Pastpaper walkthrough

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Dear all IBDP Students,

I am Lucas (a Math tutor based in Hong Kong), I know a lot of you are undergoing the upcoming mocks for IB Maths. I recorded a new video about IB Math AAHL Paper one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eak0ELgKwI

Hope this can help you guys, be sure to comment your contact or email so I can send the link of the questions to you.

Goodluck to all of you


r/IBO • • 20h ago

Other Interesting facts y'all actually learned from your IA's/EE's

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I'm bored and procrastinating my bio IA that's due tomorrow by being on here. I wanted to know if y'all have any cool facts you learned from any of your IA's and EE's or if they were just boring school assignments

I'd go first but all of my topics are lowk boring. Uhhh ig like, the depth charge lowk didn't do anything during WW1. That's about it. Thanks gng


r/IBO • • 8h ago

ToK/EE EE citation help

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For english EE if I use a e book without page numbers in MLA citation I can just use the authors name only right?
Example: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen).


r/IBO • • 8h ago

Group 4 Ib biology SL Nov 26 paper 1

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How did everyone find Biology SL today? I’m curious how everyone felt about the multiple choice questions because I genuinely can’t remember half of them 😭 Were there any particularly tricky ones, and what answers did you guys end up putting?


r/IBO • • 9h ago

Advice 39/45 pred early app which unis can apply to?

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realistic advice needed,
i have got
math aa hl 7
phy hl 7
bm hl 6
eng sl 5
spanish AB 6
chem sl 7

this is only my early app grade so its not good enough but im hoping to shoot it up by my dec predicteds.

i have got a few ecs - got an internship related to stem, won quite a few competitions and money along with that and a lot more.

so realistically can i apply to the top us unis such as columbia/duke/cmu/nyu etc or any other non sat us unis that i could apply to with a 39 predicted or should i wait until my dec ones and apply for RD??

also dyt i cld apply to uk unis aswell by dec w hopes of having a 40+ pred by then? for uk i was thinking ucl, edinburgh, warwick etc.
thank you!


r/IBO • • 9h ago

M29 Am I okay, cooked, or fried (pls don't hate)

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So I am a current sophomore.

I have my next 3 years all planned out, but hearing from seniors abt how the IB is soooo challenging, and that you only get <4 hours of sleep per day, is starting to really stress me out.

I will be taking IB (full diploma).

AP—

Grade 9: APCSP (Already got a 5)

Grade 10: APCSA, AP Compt Gov, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Calc BC

I already finished the curriculum for APCSA, am taking Calc, Compt Gov, and Bio in school, and am almost done with AP Chem.

Grade 11: AP Physics C: EM, AP Stats, AP Physics C: Mechanics

IB—
SL: English A Language&Literature, Econ, Language A (native speaker)

HL: Mathematics (AA), Biology, Chemistry

Am I on the road to no me-time?


r/IBO • • 9h ago

Other Does anybody have a guide on how IB students should fill out CommonApp?

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I'm new to this and I'm pretty confused


r/IBO • • 1d ago

Other All the very best to all N26 students!!!

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Do your best!!!


r/IBO • • 1d ago

ToK/EE dont do interdisciplinary ee. DONT DO INTERDISCIPLINARY EE. DONT DO

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you will want to die. the ib? no help. no guidance. no explanation. there are no good examplars for the subjects you are doing. you only get one teacher teaching one of the subjects and the other teacher is busy and has their own students so you never know if ur work is correct!!!!!!!!!! DONT DO IT PLEASE GUYS IM BEGGING YOU

psychology x lang and lit. hm. they sound complimentary, right? i thought so! FUCKING NOPE! "do you something youre interested in!!" "choose a topic you think will be fun to write about!" "write about something unis will be surprised by <3333" NO. NO. DONT. choose an easy boring topic with easy boring sources with easy boring analysis and PASS PLEASE

"should i seperate psych and LL by section" "no thats stupid"

"okay should i alternate" "hm maybe

"but i talk about different things in each subject so if i alternate itll be choppy?" "then integrate it"

"okay i integrated it" "thats not integrated you just use psych terminology that doesnt mean its integrated and also you analysed all of it wrong and i dont know how to do it either"

WHAT WHAT WHAT

dont fucking do it

and DONT CHOOSE HARRY POTTER AS UR LIT TEXT BC ROWLING IS A SHIT WRITER WITH NO LITERARY TECHNIQUES

final submission due in two weeks can you tell im stressing out.

seriously tho dont do it the ib has no explanation no guidance esp if ur subjects are different to each other. just choose one pls. no hate to my teacher btw she a sweetheart but ib fuck u fuck u fuck u


r/IBO • • 18h ago

Resource Request Revisiondojo pro needed for 2 weeks

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Im a nov26 student and i need a revisiondojo pro account for 2 weeks so if anyone is having an account can they please share it with me :?


r/IBO • • 22h ago

Advice Past papers

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So I have my mocks soon, and I know for sure it’ll be on ib questionbank past papers, I take BIO & CHEM HL.

Is it a good idea to just memorise the mark schemes and then use AI and make it give me similar questions based on the syllabus and questions?

Bio is sooo much content, I genuinely don’t think I’ll master every piece of content by my mocks.

What do you guys think? Just memorise the answers or?


r/IBO • • 1d ago

Advice how to get 7s in some of the "hard" subjects

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So I got 7s in English A L&L HL, Math AA HL, Biology HL, Physics HL, and ESS SL. Here's some practical advice for English, Math, and Physics:

*btw my IAs were likely horrible so I feel like I probably did tremendously well on the exams.

English A L&L HL: my mother tongue is not English, but judging by my TOEFL/ACT scores, I would say it's close to my first language. BUT, language skills aside, I feel like L&L was largely about fitting your work and thoughts into the criteria.

  1. Choose your works early on. Ask your teacher what 6 works they are planning to teach and decide on the optimal combo for p2, then choose IO and HLE works. Having a good p2 combo is essential for writing a good p2 (I got two 5s for my first p2s because we were using Persepolis and A Doll's House, and I was terrible with Persepolis; once we finished Raisin in the Sun, my grades skyrocketed).

  2. Really familiarize yourself with your p2 works + make outlines. I'm one of those lucky persons with super-memory, and I practically memorized Doll and Raisin. I also made by-theme outlines for each work that were like blocks to be assembled into a p2. It was wonderful because it saved A LOT of planning time.

  3. Develop your own p1 structure. I used what I call IEA-CEW (inform, educate, call to action; claim, evidence, warrant), which helped a lot with criteria A, B, and C.

Physics HL: I would say half of the exam is about applying formulas and calculating, while the other half was about explaining. So when you revise make sure to understand the theories and experiments. Doing past papers is VERY helpful for physics, as you would gradually understand how to address each command term.

Math HL: we had a year of problem set sessions (5 classes per week where we did psets and nothing else). I also did 5 years of past papers by myself. So practice is the key :) Also I feel like p1 and p2 questions are routine year to year so do study the markschemes.


r/IBO • • 21h ago

Group 2 hows everyone feeling and what are we you guys doings for physics hl n26?

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what the title says!