Category: IB Diploma
Unlike Medicine or Engineering, the best IB subjects for law aren’t dictated by strict prerequisite requirements — most law schools, particularly in the UK and US, don’t require specific subjects at all. What actually matters…
Best IB Subject Combinations for Engineering The best IB subject combination for engineering is built around Mathematics AA HL and Physics HL — the two subjects that virtually every engineering program worldwide treats as a…
The best IB subject combination for medicine almost always centers on Chemistry HL, paired with Biology HL, since these two sciences form the non-negotiable academic foundation that nearly every medical school worldwide expects from IB…
The hardest IB subjects, according to both student surveys and teacher feedback, tend to share three traits: a demanding syllabus workload, a high level of abstract or technical skill, and assessment criteria that leave little…
The easiest IB subjects to get a 7 in aren’t necessarily the ones that require the least studying — they’re usually the subjects where the marking criteria are the most predictable and the syllabus content…
Before you submit any Internal Assessment, run through this checklist. It’s organized in the same order examiners actually read your work — from the research question through to your final reference list — so you…
A 7-scoring Internal Assessment isn’t the result of being naturally gifted at the subject — it’s the result of a small number of specific, repeatable habits applied consistently, regardless of which subject you’re writing for.…
Every IB subject grades its Internal Assessment against a specific set of published criteria, and understanding exactly what each criterion rewards is the single most effective way to raise your score — because it tells…
Every IB subject has a different word count or page limit for its Internal Assessment, and these limits are not suggestions — going significantly over often means examiners simply stop reading (and grading) at the…
Across every subject, the same handful of mistakes appear year after year in Internal Assessments — and they’re rarely about a lack of subject knowledge. Most lost marks come from structural, procedural, or presentational errors…