Comment absolutely anything (experiences/opinions/best subject choices) on the International Baccalaureate programme

Comment absolutely anything (experiences/opinions/best subject choices) on the International Baccalaureate programme.

A Levels are better.

totally useless

bump

Idk I took a bunch of APs like a normal smart person

Nobody actually explained why IB is better, other than it "looks good" for college

I dont know it works in Europe but in america

SAT scores > everything

also AP reduced the amount of bullshit I need to take in college (2 years worth). I heard IB does the same thing but I don't know how much, also don't know if they have a similar thing in Europe

also OP are you 14 years old?

Globalist nonsense tbqhflmnopH

>ID: BJ c0k

I did it.

It's useless lmao

It's literally nothing. You cover more material in less detail in the same time, material that all gets covered again in University anyway

Was an infinitely better option than the only other thing my school had to offer (QCS, which is recognised approximately nowhere outside my home state)

Not actually nearly as bad as everyone else in this thread is making it out be either.

nice meme

It got me through highschool without having to be around niggers and white trash. Plus made some pretty chill lifelong friends through it. Overall 8/10

I mean IB is fine, I'm assuming they're building it up to be some monumental task that it isn't

But like I said I don't know how europoor schools work so I couldn't tell you about the alternatives

best of luck

I got 39. Fuck HL maths.

>being this much of a tryhard
kek
I got a 33

Here in Spain it's not worth it imo. You'll learn a bit more than other guys but if thay force you into a double program (IB/Your country's version of high school) then you will be fucked.
Also they will bury you in homework. CAS can be cool as it usually means you get out of the house and do fun shit but it ends up being boring chores and a lot of paperwork.
ToK sounds great on paper but the curriculum tends to suck. You'd be better off just browsing lesswrong.
I guess it is pretty cool to choose which subjects to take at high or med level if your country doesn't grant you that choice
You have to buy that shitty overpriced calculator you'll never use again except for cheating on exams and playing Bang and Metroid

All in all not worth it anons. I did it and would not recommend. In my class 60% quit after their first year and only one guy ended up using it to study abroad.

In all seriousness though, it depends on your school and teachers. Talk to seniors and get their opinion.

In my school, IB teachers often gave their entire classes ridiculous boosts on the report card (by like 6-10%) so getting scholarships for university was a lot easier.

The actual diploma is useless and worth no more than a normal highschool degree. You can use it to skip SOME (english only in my experience) first year uni classes. Not even skip, but just straight up get the 3 credits for english, 3 for bio and that's it.

Overall it's not worth the hassle and the extra (useless) work.

It's also really easy to cheat the system by downloading the ib questionbanks and hoping your teacher reuses the questions on tests/exams.

The actual ib exams at the end aren't even hard, you can honestly wing them and get a 4/5 out of 7. CAS is also useless and I faked all 150 hours pretty much.

I hope you're not talking shit on based graphing calculators

Cuz you'll use the fuck outta that thing if you go into a field with a lot of math

>In my school, IB teachers often gave their entire classes ridiculous boosts on the report card (by like 6-10%)

lel, I must have gotten at least 6 semesters bumped a full grade due to acing the AP exam.

no kidding, in our hl math class everyone would score 50s and 60s on the tests, these would get bumped to 90s on the report cards

>that totally useless "Theory of Knowledge" jerkoff class
The grade inflation is mostly meaningless because good universities will look at your unweighted GPA