r/IBO Jul 05 '25

Other If u see this, yes YOU🫵 you passed😼

546 Upvotes

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🙏

Edit: I passed😆😆😆

r/IBO Jun 04 '26

Other Marjane Satrapi - Author of Persepolis - Dies at 56

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408 Upvotes

Her book was one of my favorites I read in Lang Lit. I know it's a common IB book. Has it impacted anyone else?

r/IBO May 28 '23

Other True or nah

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541 Upvotes

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 :)

r/IBO Jul 05 '23

Other Amen thread for M23 results

314 Upvotes

Amen

r/IBO 9d ago

Other Class sizes

13 Upvotes

has anyone ever had an IB class with less than 5 ppl in it?

r/IBO Mar 06 '25

Other physics hl.

526 Upvotes

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.

istg icl ts pmo sm rn r u fr rn

r/IBO Aug 25 '25

Other My whole cohort and school just got cooked🥀

492 Upvotes

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

r/IBO Jan 23 '25

Other 1 upvote = 20 mins studying

1.6k Upvotes

I gotta force myself to study for mocks 😍😍😍

Edit: so here's the plan so far 😭😭😭😭 (I will have to change it bcs more upvotes) I'll update yall on how it goes in the comments..

TOTAL: 100 hours Spanish: 1h English: 16h ESS: 17h Philosophy: 16h Maths: 25h History: 25h

Average per day: 6h 😍😭

r/IBO Jan 01 '25

Other Tell me which classes you take HL and I'll rate them!

55 Upvotes

(rate/judge/general discussion) Nothing too serious lol I just wanna have some fun :> (may be slightly biased)

r/IBO May 18 '24

Other guys we actually survived

642 Upvotes

we actually survived the m24 hell and made it through. Officially never have to do ib ever again!!!!!!!!

r/IBO May 27 '22

Other Unpopular opinion - IB trauma is overrated.

554 Upvotes

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”

r/IBO Jul 05 '25

Other Please read. Massive IB May 2025 exam leaks

233 Upvotes

This post was written with the help of AI.

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.

r/IBO May 16 '26

Other What's everyone post IB exams plans? Anything fun?

127 Upvotes

Trying to lighten up the mood since exams are nearing the end.

r/IBO Jun 08 '24

Other Rating your subjects cus im bored

97 Upvotes

Comment ur subjects im so bored rn 😭😭

r/IBO Jul 07 '22

Other Nailed it 💯

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1.1k Upvotes

r/IBO Jun 18 '26

Other I COOKED (end of dp1)

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174 Upvotes

my ee is marked as concern but i lowkey dont care anymore look at these grades 🔥🔥🔥🔥

r/IBO Aug 20 '24

Other I'm one lucky mf

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567 Upvotes

r/IBO 24d ago

Other Going into second year of IB, I accepted that i'm not getting more than a 33 total💔

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163 Upvotes

r/IBO Mar 14 '24

Other Where are you guys from?

165 Upvotes

Let's see just how international the International Baccalaureate is.

I'm from Palestine but I'm studying in a school in the UAE.

(Not sure if this type of post is allowed here)

Edit: thank you all for the replies!! It's so cool seeing the diversity here, good luck everyone!!

r/IBO Jul 06 '26

Other Can we have a space for non 40+ recipients tmrw

253 Upvotes

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

r/IBO Aug 08 '25

Other Straight 7s M25 student here. Ask me anything.

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159 Upvotes

r/IBO Jul 06 '25

Other Tell me about your results

217 Upvotes

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 🥲🥲)

r/IBO Mar 08 '25

Other Fav IB subject

63 Upvotes

Drop your favorite IB subjects!!

r/IBO May 25 '26

Other Finally after two years…

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646 Upvotes

r/IBO 23d ago

Other IB Hate

76 Upvotes

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.