How should I study for my IB chemistry test?
The first thing you should do is to go through the IB syllabus; the IBO (International Baccalaureate Organisation) can only ask questions from the syllabus, so you can never know more than you need, but never leave something out of the untaught syllabus at the same time.
Sometimes IB may ask the most trivial questions, and it is catching these details that get you a 7.
The next thing you want to do is to assimilate the Topics by chunks. What I did before my IB Exam is that I learned one topic each day, and after I went through the entire syllabus (3 weeks), I continued the process, but at the rate of 2 topics a day.
In the end, I’ve gone through the syllabus three times before I took my IBO chem exam.
The teacher did not really teach much in my school I used to study and she confuses everything quite a lot, I studied everything with the guidance of my IB coaching online.
Take the exercises the teacher offers you, as well as the mock, seriously, do not treat them lightly because it doesn't go to the final grade, they 're good opportunities for you to find out what your weaknesses and strengths are, and by practising bits by bits over the 18 months, it reduces your workload and stress before your final exam.
The way I self-learned is by watching recorded lectures of my IB coaching Online using the study guide by them. I don’t really like to use textbooks because most of the time they like to put in the extra material that isn't even related to the syllabus.
So I just watched recorded videos, took notes as I went, and reviewed the notes with my study guide.
Testprepkart IB faculties are really good in terms of explaining and simplifying difficult concepts, whereas Mr. Naveen is really good at covering just the things you need for your exam according to the syllabus - go through one of their Ib courses at least once and you are pretty much guaranteed a 6!
Then the next thing you’d want to do is do many last years papers, for me, I’d covered pretty much all past papers from 2012 May–2016 Nov before I took my exam in 2017 May. Don’t be discouraged when you find you don’t understand the questions,
it is better you get it wrong now than getting it wrong during the real exams. Moreover, do the specimen paper! You’d find the nature of the exam papers really changed after the release of the 2016 syllabus.
Previously they used to combine topics into one question, they now tend to classify questions by subject, which also helped to restrict the kind of questions they might ask. I do not recommend this method, but because they’ve just changed the syllabus,
I found that they tended to ask the new questions that were different from the old syllabus, and you could guess the question they were going to ask pretty much. I tried to predict the topics they would give us in May 2017 and this seriously worked.
Lastly, within an Ib exam, you’d find that Within all the questions, there is always that 5% that no one gets right, or the “challenge questions” I’d like to say; The remaining 95 percent are questions as soon as you know and practice that you'd be right.
That said, forget about that 5 percent and focus on scoring the remaining 95 percent-a low 7, or is still a 7.
All the very best for your IB prep
Sometimes IB may ask the most trivial questions, and it is catching these details that get you a 7.
The next thing you want to do is to assimilate the Topics by chunks. What I did before my IB Exam is that I learned one topic each day, and after I went through the entire syllabus (3 weeks), I continued the process, but at the rate of 2 topics a day.
In the end, I’ve gone through the syllabus three times before I took my IBO chem exam.
The teacher did not really teach much in my school I used to study and she confuses everything quite a lot, I studied everything with the guidance of my IB coaching online.
Take the exercises the teacher offers you, as well as the mock, seriously, do not treat them lightly because it doesn't go to the final grade, they 're good opportunities for you to find out what your weaknesses and strengths are, and by practising bits by bits over the 18 months, it reduces your workload and stress before your final exam.
The way I self-learned is by watching recorded lectures of my IB coaching Online using the study guide by them. I don’t really like to use textbooks because most of the time they like to put in the extra material that isn't even related to the syllabus.
So I just watched recorded videos, took notes as I went, and reviewed the notes with my study guide.
Testprepkart IB faculties are really good in terms of explaining and simplifying difficult concepts, whereas Mr. Naveen is really good at covering just the things you need for your exam according to the syllabus - go through one of their Ib courses at least once and you are pretty much guaranteed a 6!
Then the next thing you’d want to do is do many last years papers, for me, I’d covered pretty much all past papers from 2012 May–2016 Nov before I took my exam in 2017 May. Don’t be discouraged when you find you don’t understand the questions,
it is better you get it wrong now than getting it wrong during the real exams. Moreover, do the specimen paper! You’d find the nature of the exam papers really changed after the release of the 2016 syllabus.
Previously they used to combine topics into one question, they now tend to classify questions by subject, which also helped to restrict the kind of questions they might ask. I do not recommend this method, but because they’ve just changed the syllabus,
I found that they tended to ask the new questions that were different from the old syllabus, and you could guess the question they were going to ask pretty much. I tried to predict the topics they would give us in May 2017 and this seriously worked.
Lastly, within an Ib exam, you’d find that Within all the questions, there is always that 5% that no one gets right, or the “challenge questions” I’d like to say; The remaining 95 percent are questions as soon as you know and practice that you'd be right.
That said, forget about that 5 percent and focus on scoring the remaining 95 percent-a low 7, or is still a 7.
All the very best for your IB prep
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