When to start studying for ib exams
Top 5 tips for IB Exams!
hey guys my name is Cole and I graduated
from the IP last year and basically this
time last year I just remember you know
wanting to curl I was just I felt like
crying every day because was one month
from the exams and no matter how much
you studied you just don't feel prepared
I always thought I was prepared but just
as an exam gets closer all of your
confidence yourself slowly shatters down
and you just start you know going crazy
and I don't know what happened to me so
I remember just you know going on
YouTube searching International
Baccalaureate IB you're going on IV
survival all the ibc on forums on Reddit
just finding any sort of advice that I
could get and basically I figured out
well now that I've actually graduated
the IB and I graduated with the 40 so
obviously I will have a little bit of
credibility in the subject a little
older a little wiser my mom doesn't
think so but I I think I am maybe I can
give them the wisdom that I wish I had
known
and the IB and basically what what I
should have known one month prior to the
exams to kind of just maximize my mark
so if you guys wanna listen to me I'm
sure would like to tell you my top five
tips to do well the IB one month to four
so my first tip is very simple and it
goes against the beliefs of a lot of
people don't make notes so I find that a
lot of people for some reason they
believe that they have this magical
ability that if you if you write notes
on the textbook by yourself and you you
write a summary of everything that you
need to know and if you read this one
week prior to the exam it suddenly just
you know by diffusion or something
magically enters on your head because
you've written it for yourself and I and
I'm bought into this I'm like oh my
better right now so I took out my
syllabus statements I took out my
textbook and I remember just writing the
syllabus statement and what I need to
write and what I need for the syllabus
statement and I made notes for chapters
like this and then I realized what am i
doing and the thing that acted as the
catalyst for that realization is I
talked to a person and that person later
on graduated the
my class I think she got a 4340 for
something like that she told me you know
what everybody is doing is stupid and
you're just writing notes and you would
if that takes so much time and not
necessarily while your writing is
entering your head and it's much better
to just read the material ones slowly
properly and let it and once you really
really understand that material you get
the fundamentals down and that's all you
need you don't need to go and write
notes and notes and notes and just one
week to fix it before the exam you
realize oh no I can't do this and you
just break down more so don't you make
notes especially one month before the
exam I remember sitting in my science
lab and the girl next to me decide do we
need to know this I'm like yeah yeah
that's what we need to the syllabus what
do you think I'm just making notes I'm
like it's two and a half weeks before
the exam I'm making notes now yeah I
study better this way I mean there's
nothing wrong with that's your studying
stuff but if you're one month before the
exam don't waste time making notes and
reading it one day before and on the way
to the exam you know in your car reading
the notes is not going to help so don't
make notes in fact the best type of
notes is my second point the best type
of notes are the revision guides so
these are basically a godsend right
because they're the best kind of notes
because they're basically made most of
the time by the same people who work
your textbook and they're just
everything you need to know from the
textbook in 200 pages or less so there
are the good revision guys and the bad
revision guide system the bad revision
guides are basically the ones that take
all the necessary and unnecessary
information of your textbook and they
just ride them in shorter statement
these are the bad ones these are the
ones you want to stay away from the good
ones are the ones that only include the
core information the core information
and they're just elaborate on this and
nothing more
so everything that the syllabus requires
so if you can get this type of revision
guide you don't need your notes you
already need are these your vision guide
that especially if you've learned
everything
class beforehand John read your textbook
I remember biology essentially I just
studied everything from the revision
guide it's just it's really helpful
I think the revision guide for biology
was by Andrew something and drew
something yeah Andrew a lot of fun or
mistaken he had an amazing a vision
guide but a bad revision guy would be
the one by constant times I Oh gasps I'm
not hitting him he did a really good
revision for the paper to you for
economics a child but I remember his
revision guide was basically this it was
just a bunch of information in a small
pond and in small boxes it would show it
was just terrible so find the good
revision guides and make these your best
friends that I'm sure you will not waste
time obviously if you haven't been doing
past papers are really stupid especially
one month before the exams at the time
of this video but basically these are
this is your king past papers all you
need is basically to do the past papers
and whatever you get wrong look into the
marketing scheme and try to understand
as much as you can from marketing don't
let your textbook look into your
marketing scheme and this is the trick
all right so what you do is as opposing
business economics all right and it's a
it's a question let's say on theory of
the firm theory of the firm or you know
on physics it could be entropy or and
can it could be animals or something but
basically when you get something wrong
find all the questions and all the past
papers that have to do with that so if
it's something about you know clear the
firm and something to do with
monopolistic competition something like
that find every single past paper that
has a novelistic competition and just
try to not memorize the points but try
to see the pattern in the point don't
just keep on relearning relearning
relearning and regurgitating information
River textbook try to find the patterns
in the marketing scheme and that's how
you'll basically learn and that's you
know if you can do every single pass
paper
May and November and just learn as you
go
I'm showing sure you at least graduate
with the six no matter whether an HR and
SL so pass paper arcane like that
so doodle I made this is the post we
crown obviously not a very good crown I
have a crown in my feet soon I'm going
to have that keep birds a lot three
times so number four exploit online IP
teachers so basically YouTube where
you're watching this video right now has
amazing IV teachers okay
they are amazing a lot of them were
better than my IB teachers at school so
like fire biology there's this guy
called Alex Lee and he just did a
phenomenal job for economics there was
this guy called Jason Welker and I just
basically learned a ton of my syllabus
from this guy he was amazing for Ken I
remember when I was learning him as a
person called mrs. Jade Ken and she did
a really really good job there was this
one more person for physics I'm not so
sure who it was but you get the idea you
look on YouTube type Ib
whatever your subject is and whatever
question you want and you know a bunch
of videos will pop up I remember from
math SL there was this guy from Pei
Canada that did a whole review on the
subject which was really really helpful
to exploit your online IB teachers they
try to do things in a fun way
it kind of sticks into your head I know
and I find a lot of them also have a
past paper drills so if you can do that
yeah be really helpful and one of the
more important things I feel is that you
shouldn't compare the amount you study
with your friends and it's very simple
you just a lot what I would do is I
would message my friends on whatsapp and
I would say oh how much we study and
they'd say you know I've saved this
amount and I've only saved this amount
and all of this wouldn't need me to
stress and you know the opposite would
be a nicety this amount of my friends
tell me they've only stayed this amount
and then this would just be relaxation
I'm like okay this gives me a false
sense of calmness and both these
scenarios are
because oftentimes if they tell if
they've told you that they've studied
less than you they're either lying
because some of them are ultra
competitive or they're just dumb because
if you're one month into the exam and a
person like you is watching this video
stressed you know you shouldn't be you
know comparing yourself to people are
sitting less than you it's just stupid
and if they say that they're studying
they've studied more than you
just remember it's about quality not
quantity I remember a person she studied
the whole textbook in life she took
everything like 3-4 weeks and I was just
I chipped my jaw dropped but then I
realized I mean she should terrible on
exams but it basically goes to show that
it doesn't matter if you can study
everything quick you have to retain all
this information in your head you have
to understand it so like my first point
don't make notes read and studied
carefully and let it sink in only when
it sinks in that's when you move on to
the next topic yeah so don't ask your
friends in fact to shut off your phone
shut up what's up shut off Facebook
they're all just going to be
distractions and they're just going to
make you more stress especially don't go
on Twitter and switch hashtag ID you
don't go an IB survival and asking all
these questions you know unless it's you
you really need to just don't compare
with anyone and don't go on something
like IV survival and say if I've only
studied this much do I still have a
chance in getting seven that's just
stupid the chances of you getting a
seven is based on how much you study and
how smart you are
that's it and the last one that I wanted
to point out which is really just to
potato a bunch of IB students because
everyone's going to panic but don't
panic this is my secret number tip
number six or if it's a secret
when everybody does it I never did when
I was in IB but basically I realize
afterwards that if I don't panic okay
I'm not going to be you know going crazy
and information is going to be able to
stay in my brain much more longer
because when you panic what happens you
what what you tend to do is memorize
write or you memorize or you try to
speed read because if you don't
understand something and you feel like
you're taking too long okay I'll just
memorize it and I'll figure it out in
the test hope it doesn't come on or
you'll speed read everything and nothing
will
staying or bringing both of these things
are stupid you need to read so and you
need to get these things in your brain
and the more you panic the more messes
up your brain and the more you're going
to get yeah it's not going to work out
don't panic I know you're you are going
to panic but try to panic or less these
are my five tips plus my one bonus tip
that's very and applicable for a lot of
people so hopefully your exams go well
yeah remember IB is in the end worst
thing that can happen is you need to
take a gap here and reset your exams or
renegotiate your offer for your
university so again these are just mine
yeah these are just my thoughts if you
need any help
unit you can just message me on youtube
for comment below so yeah hopefully this
video has some gems yeah don't message
your friends don't panic don't go and IB
survival all right have fun
