HOW I GOT 45 IN THE IB II 4 Tips for IB Students

two whole years of content the marking criteria is harsher what should i be aiming for i don't know if i'm doing enough work i took the complete opposite approach perfect score 45 out of 45. hi everyone i'm ashley and i'm a first year medical student at the university of sydney and i've started this channel to share with you my journey of medicine studying productivity all those good things so i thought a good place to start would be to share my journey with the international baccalaureate or ib that i completed in high school as you can see from the title of this video then i ended up receiving a perfect score so 45 out of 45 and i'm guessing if you clicked on this video then that's probably because you're a student currently either thinking of doing the iv or even better currently doing the iv which is very exciting so if that's the case this video is for you so i'm not going to be discussing particular subjects or internal assessments today those videos are coming later but for today's video i'm just going to be discussing the general approach and philosophy i used with some really practical tips that you can implement which i really think are the cornerstone of what allowed me to achieve the marks that i did i'm going to be presenting these tips chronologically in terms of when they're going to affect you during your ib diploma and i've put timestamps in the description uh so that you can just jump to whatever tip sounds the most interesting to you if you're not here to stick around for the whole video so first up before you've even started the ib my first big tip is to be strategic about choosing your subjects so i feel like we're always hearing from parents teachers even friends to just pick the subjects you love pick the subjects you like and it'll all work out because you'll enjoy what you're studying and you'll be motivated to study and i think that that's great advice in terms of picking the six subjects so you know what language you're going to choose what science you're going to choose but i think in the ib we really have this opportunity to be more strategic when it comes to picking our higher level and standard level subjects the reason why i say this is because the way in which the higher level course will distinguish itself from the standard level course is going to vary across the different subjects so for example you do have subjects like english which can vary slightly in their assessments and in the content that you study but for the large part the biggest difference between sl and hl is that the marking criteria is harsher in contrast you in the sciences for example then usually the big difference between sl and hl is that you'll learn additional content which is more challenging so given this once you've chosen your subjects based on the ones that you enjoy then i would do a deep dive into your syllabus talk to your teachers and really try to understand the difference between the sl and the hl courses so that you can understand and make that decision of do i want to choose a subject which is harder in terms of marking or that's going to give me lots more content historically have people at my school done well in the higher level subject or does the teacher recommend it getting that kind of advice from the beginning can be really useful in terms of knowing what you're in for and i would especially consider trying to balance the types of hls that you're selecting so if all of your hl's are hl's in the sense that they're adding additional content which is more complex then that can place a lot of time strain on you in terms of learning all of that content so it can be nice to sort of balance it out by having maybe one hl which is a more content heavy hl with other hl's which are harder in terms of their marking criteria so a kind of sub tip under this is to make sure you know the cutoffs of when you can change your hl and sl subjects and when you have to sort of stay put because you've already completed assessments so the good part about ib is that really until you've completed your internal assessments and even sometimes after that depending on your school's policy then you may be able to change your hl and sl subjects from personal experience i was changing my hl and sl subjects even up to three quarters of the way through my first year of the ib diploma so now you've actually started the ib and the question that i get from my tutoring students all the time is how much should i be studying each day what should i be aiming for i don't know if i'm doing enough work that kind of thing now obviously there's no hard and fast rule to this but i think the most practical way i can present it is just to share my experience and hopefully that acts as some sort of guide as to what someone who received a 45 was doing each day so i actually tracked my study hours during the second year of the ib so i have the exact numbers to share with you so these are all the averages of the periods which i'll be talking about so in the holidays before year two then i was studying six hours per day in the first term i was studying 4.2 hours per day in the april holidays i was studying 4.3 hours per day in term 2 then i was studying 3.5 hours per day in the july holidays i was studying 5.7 hours per day in term three i was studying 5.8 hours per day and in the lead up to the final exams between september and beginning of the exams in november i was studying 7.9 hours per day so overall during the holidays i studied for an average of 6.85 hours per day and during the school terms i studied for an average of 4.5 hours per day but since i used study tracking as a productivity tool my tracking would be slightly more consistent when there was a lot to do so these are still only approximations and the true number is probably about 30 to 45 minutes lower than the numbers shown here so that may feel overwhelming but i think it's important to have a realistic picture of how much you can be expecting to study if you're wanting to achieve those highest marks but next week's video is actually going to be about how you can enjoy your time studying and make it a fun experience so if you're overwhelmed by those numbers come back for next week's video and i'll show you how to make those long hours sitting at the desk actually enjoyable so my third big tip once you're actually a little way into your ib is to save up marks using your internal assessments now sometimes you'll get the advice from teachers or other students that because the internal assessments are only worth 20 to 30 percent of your overall grade to obviously put time into them but spend more time studying for the final exam and making sure that you're learning that content but at least personally i took the complete opposite approach and i'll tell you why now as much as you can prepare for the final exams then you never know what you're going to be faced with on the day and the reality of the ib exams is that such a large portion of your grade depends on how you perform on a single day or over the course of a couple of weeks after you've been studying for two whole years so your internal assessments are really a way for you to start saving up those marks in an environment where there are no uncontrolled variables you know you're not you know exactly how you're going to be feeling you can understand the task fully you can talk it through with your teacher you can guarantee that you'll complete that internal assessment to the best of your ability versus an exam at the end which you can't necessarily predict how you're going to perform on the day and i would say this this is particularly important for the subjects that you feel like you're going to be struggling in for example for me maths was my weakest subject and so i put that little bit of extra effort into my maths ia to really make sure it was perfect and that i was getting all of those marks together because i was always teetering between two grade boundaries um in terms of maths and so i wanted to make sure that my internal assessment would be able to push me up into that higher grade boundary and for my fourth and final tip regarding how to approach final exams is to not study learn the content now you might think what do you mean you just told me about how much you studied but my philosophy behind this is to me studying is with the goal in mind of a test you have an upcoming assessment and you're trying to stuff that knowledge into your brain so that you can perform on that specific individual test and that kind of studying can have worked really well in previous years of school because it's successful in getting things into your short-term memory but if you want to succeed in the ib exams they're testing you on two whole years of content and that's amazing because it means that you're not being tested on something that you learned one week ago and don't really understand but it's also challenging because that means that there is a large volume of content to learn so the mindset switch that i kind of had at the beginning of the ip was that it's going to be impossible for me to memorize this amount of content so i have to make sure that i'm learning it as i go so that when it comes to the final exam i'm actually only memorizing the most complex facts or tiny bits of information but all of the other knowledge is just something that i know intuitively it's kind of like if you think back to kindergarten you didn't know how to read you would look at a letter and be like oh i don't i don't know what sound that makes or you'd have to think through it and you know memorize it practice it but now that you're older and taking the ib it's completely intuitive for you to read you don't even have to think about the sounds that the letters make so that's the kind of mindset i think you should be going into the ib thinking is that okay at the beginning of biology i learned the difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote and the composition of a cell membrane by the end of that topic and as you continue to revise it towards the final exams then that should just become intuitive knowledge in the same way that you know the sky is blue or the grass is green you know that will just become part of your personal knowledge so you might be thinking how do i actually do this i've only ever studied four tests before and the big thing that i would say is to not leave it until the test to start memorizing the information i know that often we'll get the advice to make study notes as you go so some people are in the practice of making study notes at the end of each week but i think the mistake that you can fall into there is think that once you've made your study notes then it's fine you're done you can put those away and not look at them until you actually have the exam but the issue with this and i know that i've done it is that i'll type the notes and not actually think about or internalize that information and so it's even though i have a record of it that's easier to study from later then i haven't actually taken that time in that moment to memorize that information so i would say that as you're going along and as you're creating your study notes then you're not done with them until you've studied them through active recall i'll make another video on active recall someday because that's my favorite way to study super effective but again that's a shift in your mindset that you shouldn't be finished with a topic just because you have written notes on it that you kind of understand the concepts of not really instead you want to finish each topic having memorized the content and being sure of your understanding and the second aspect of this is to address issues as they're coming up so i know again i know that i've done this where i've created my revision notes i feel like i'm done with a topic but there is one learning outcome or dot point which i'm not really sure about i'm like oh yeah i could probably answer a question and exam on that maybe um but then i just want to move on because i want the feeling of being done with the topic so the self-control you have to have in those circumstances is to actually take the initiative to ask your teacher look up online really address that gap in your learning and again i'm going to make a future video about all of my tips about how to embody this learning mindset but that's all we have time for today so if you're interested in those tips then make sure you subscribe so that you can come back and we can continue learning together [Music] you

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Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021