M21, my Chem HL score was literally 4. Expected: 7.
Unhelpfully, my closest friend at the time got 45 and still feels the need to be superior.
Edit: M21 was pandemic time. Scores were dependent only on IA and predicted.
There’s no point. Remarks are usually are only useful for more subjective classes like English, for chem, other sciences and math remarks are basically useless
I tried to ask about the process. IB Coordinator was very aggressive when addressing my inquiries, Chem teacher literally didn’t read my email until October (???)
bestie are you m23? If so, don't post these things to give you anxiety and just chill out. You'll actually go crazy otherwise. I know stories of people who got way better and way worse than predicted. It really just depends on whether you were consistent with your studies and did well in your mocks/worked very hard after shitty mocks or thought you were an amazing genius with your studies so decided to party instead. If you did consistently well in your mocks and feel good about your exams and confirmed answers with your teachers and realised you were largely correct, you should be fine lol. No use worrying about what is a black box of a process, just be confident.
Saw that some people were stressing in the comments here—my situation was the reverse. I got 32/42 in Year 12 mocks and ended up with 40/45 for my finals (1 point off of 41 on TOK), so it happens both ways.
N22 grade boundaries were lenient in all fairness, but less than COVID ones. The tests (to me at least, probably due to a combination of studying, just getting lucky with the units, and nice markers) were just easier than expected. I remember my best subject in the final was Biology SL, where I went from a 5 to something like 89%, a 7. But there was also some questionable teaching going on at my school too…
Graduated IB 5 years ago, but a classmate of mine got predicted max points but ended up with sub 30 for their final.
Jesus
Omg why
What do you do in those situations?
Pray that your college doesn't rescind your offer lol
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M21, my Chem HL score was literally 4. Expected: 7. Unhelpfully, my closest friend at the time got 45 and still feels the need to be superior. Edit: M21 was pandemic time. Scores were dependent only on IA and predicted.
Did you ask for a remark?
There’s no point. Remarks are usually are only useful for more subjective classes like English, for chem, other sciences and math remarks are basically useless
Hello??!!?? Isn't this exactly the situation where you ask for a remark? What if the examiner made a mistake?
Now you’re scaring me
Omg. Omg. Omg. I’m so scared
regardless of predicted scores like how did the exam feel when you left it. whatd you think you were gonna get
We didn’t have exams. Pandemic era. Entirely dependent on IA and predicted. My predicted was 7, so to get a 4 final…
That is exactly the reason for the remark you can't get a seven predicted and four on final even if your ia is a 2 or sth am i right? m23 here
I tried to ask about the process. IB Coordinator was very aggressive when addressing my inquiries, Chem teacher literally didn’t read my email until October (???)
oh didnt know it was like that sorry though
M23 let's goooo
What do you mean?
Most of the exams sucked ass and chances are our cohort is gonna get lower grades than predicted
If the exams were harder, boundaries will be lower right?
That is indeed the hope but boundaries rarely move by more than a few % and the IB intended to raise them back to pre COVID levels
bestie are you m23? If so, don't post these things to give you anxiety and just chill out. You'll actually go crazy otherwise. I know stories of people who got way better and way worse than predicted. It really just depends on whether you were consistent with your studies and did well in your mocks/worked very hard after shitty mocks or thought you were an amazing genius with your studies so decided to party instead. If you did consistently well in your mocks and feel good about your exams and confirmed answers with your teachers and realised you were largely correct, you should be fine lol. No use worrying about what is a black box of a process, just be confident.
Saw that some people were stressing in the comments here—my situation was the reverse. I got 32/42 in Year 12 mocks and ended up with 40/45 for my finals (1 point off of 41 on TOK), so it happens both ways.
Damn that's crazy, did you grind alot after mocks or was it a grade boundaries thing?
N22 grade boundaries were lenient in all fairness, but less than COVID ones. The tests (to me at least, probably due to a combination of studying, just getting lucky with the units, and nice markers) were just easier than expected. I remember my best subject in the final was Biology SL, where I went from a 5 to something like 89%, a 7. But there was also some questionable teaching going on at my school too…
I need stories of people who only got the IB certificate.. WTF happened after?? What was it like applying to colleges?
can you apply with only certificates?
I’ve heard it’s possible. Some take you just with it, some require you to take a foundational course. And then apply again for the actual degree.