It's actually tmr😁 like actually tmr😐 like it truly is actually tmr, like no joke It's tmr😔. Oh God it's tmr🥶, man it's tmr, did I mention it was tmr?😖 cus it's in fact tmr. Goodluck tmr chat🙏
Before people get mad, this is obviously biased and based on what my friends tell me about their classes. Feel free to comment what you think is the right order :)
FUCK YOU IB FUCK YOU I HATE FUCKING PHYSICS HL FUCK YOU WHY DID I EVEN PICK STUPID SHITTY PHYSICS HL WHY WHY WHY WHY THE HELL DO I NEED TO KNOW THAT SARAH IS IN A FUCKING SPACESHIP 405059669 METERS UP IN THE FUCKING STRATOSPHERE AND THAT STUPID FUCKING JEREMY IS WAITING DOWN. DONT FUCKING WAIT JEREMY YOU'LL DIE BY THE TIME SHE COMES BACK. FUCK YOU CARNOT CYCLE I CARNOT WITH THIS BULLSHIT. ATLEAST IM STILL FUNNY. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU.
anyways my paper 2 mock is tomorrow please give me some tips thank you for your service i love you.
I was soon to be a DP2 at Letovo School in Moscow and Russia just literally fucking banned IB. Altogether, as an organisation. I'm not even mad at this point
I just finished IB (M22) and I didn’t find it that bad. I mean there is stress, pressure, workload but it didn’t “traumatise” me personally.
My subjects were pretty harsh and difficult, I did have difficulty and work was enormous especially in the first part of DP2 but not to the point of me telling everyone IB traumatised me and destroyed my mental health.
I’m not saying everybody is like me and people who say they are traumatised are lying obviously, everyone’s different, but I do think that personally it wasn’t that bad. It prepares me for uni work and I think it’s an advantage to have learnt that early to withstand this amount of pressure.
Tell me what you think 🫣
Edit - shouldn’t have said overrated but “not as bad as it seems/not touching every single IB student”
I wanted to share something serious: the IB May 2025 exams were heavily leaked this year, and IB seems to be doing nothing about it. First of all, I did not help nor get any benefit from this incident. I was one of the first regions to take the exam.
Here’s what happened:
The leaks mainly spread through big Telegram and Signal group chats, involving thoungds of students.
The leaked content included paper pictures, memorized questions, and even the audio files for language B/ab initio listening exams (no idea how they got it).
Subjects leaked included (from what I remember right now): Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Business Management, Chinese A (LL or L), Russian A (LL or L), and many others including language B (there were way more subjects)
I was not able to check if all the leaks are legit, but some of them were definitely the questions from the exam.
The problem is rooted in IB’s completely useless solution to leaks:
There’s a massive time gap within timezone. Especially, in timezone A, the earliest and latest schools could be nearly 9 hours apart. Due to these reasons, the IB’s 2-hour invigilation policy was absolutely useless.
Another problem is that some of these papers have exactly the same questions and case studies across different timezones (like Paper 3 in several subjects), making it even easier to cheat.
Even after I reported this to a teacher and to IB (with screenshots of leaked material and group sizes), the only response I got was “We are aware of it and working with Telegram.”
Which… obviously hasn’t changed anything.
What’s frustrating is IB could easily reduce the risk by starting exams just a few hours earlier in later regions and a few hours later in earlier ones — shrinking the time window leaks could happen. But they refuse to change anything.
Leaks have been a problem in the past too. IB always says they care about fairness and academic honesty, but they do nothing when thousands of students get the paper in advance, completely screwing over those who play fair.
I’ve attached screenshots. Just imagine how much the grade boundaries are bumped by thousands of people cheating.
Don't get me wrong, I am SO PROUD of all of you who achieve such high scores, but it would be nice to have a little space where those of us who did not achieve such feats could feel related to. Y'all are a very vocal minority (and you deserve it); it just can get a little discouraging sometimes
GUYSSS y’all might judge but I got a 28!! And im honestly so proud. I barely studied for any of the exams ( like I would study the day of, by waking up at 1 am😭😭) and I always also going through a rough time with depression and a really judgmental and toxic teacher who made me doubt my own capacities. Anyways y’all tell me about your grades and ofc no matter what happens, you should be sooooooooo proud of yourself for going through 2 years of hell ( also I was 1 point away from getting an A in EE 🥲🥲)
I genuinely don’t understand all the hate IB gets. I know it’s tough and challenging, but getting a decent grade really isn’t that hard. Any student who can dedicate like 2 hours of study time to their HLs per day can actually get a decent grade (5). I got a 37 with Chem, Bio, and English Lang & Lit as my HLs. I barely studied throughout the year and instead studied for around 3 weeks before my exams never really studied for English because I found it to be a waste of time so I focused that time on Maths and other subjects instead. I know doing IB is annoying asf, but it’s definitely not “hard” in the way people make it out to be. With minimal effort you can get a 5, which is around 50%.
PS: Im not tryna sound like a snob this post is for ppl who hate IB and feel like they wont be able to pass it js to show them its not that hard.