🧠✅ DP1 to DP2 Toolkit: Your Personal GUIDE to Finishing those IAs, Mastering Revision, Acing CAS 🌟
Monday, 4th August, 2025
Happy first week of August!
🚀 Can you believe it’s already August? Make the best of your summer by relaxing or being productive, before the next school year begins. Hopefully, this summer break has given you time to prepare yourself for either starting or finishing the IB. Today’s newsletter focuses specifically on your transition from DP1 to DP2.
🎨 As a DP2 student your focus has shifted to slowly finishing up your IB obligations such as CAS and your IAs. Today’s newsletter features various blogs to help you align your CAS with your future plans and tips on finalizing your IAs.
🎯 Additionally, with the pressure to do well in class and for mock/final exams, today’s newsletter also highlights various motivation tips and revision techniques to help you reach the end!
🤔 Lastly, interested in how a typical day in the life of IB Students globally looks like? Check out our IBlieve Youtube Channel, including the Youtube Video below, as past IBlieve members created shorts vlogs, capturing their days!
Keep it up, you’ve got this!
💌 In this newsletter…
📚 Blog Posts: IAs, CAS, Motivation, Revision Techniques
📲 Instagram Sneak Peek: Favorite IB Study Resources!
🎥 Youtube Sneak Peek: A Week In the Life of an IB Student (The Philippines, EP.1)
Cheering you on,
Sara Grmek 🇸🇮
Communications Lead at IBlieve
📚 Blog Posts!
Whenever you have a question about IB, check out our Blog! With over 300 posts, you’re sure to find super helpful advice from our amazing IB graduates and students. Here are all our most recent articles related to all things DP2-related !
🧪 Internal Assessments (IA)
✨ HIGHLIGHT - IB Math AI SL Explained: Internal Assessment (IA)
From choosing your topic to structuring your IA, read Sophia’s blog to uncover all the tips for writing your AI Math internal assessment.
🔥 Boost Your CAS Portfolio for Uni Applications
✨ HIGHLIGHT - How to Align Your CAS Projects with Your Future Career Plans
CAS can be very useful when gathering various experiences to mention in your university applications. Check out Sofi’s blog as she discusses how to align CAS with your future plans.
💪 Pushing Through Until the End
✨ HIGHLIGHT - 5 Tips to Help You Stay Motivated in the IB
With the rigor of the IB DP Programme, students often face burnout and the lack of motivation. Saanvi’s insightful blog highlights various strategies to boost motivation!
⏰ Revision Techniques
✨ HIGHLIGHT - Revision Technique: Getting Straight into Practice
As you study for your in-class assessments, mock exams, or final exams, there are many to approaches to how you can revise. Check out our blogs to figure out which revision technique works best for you!
📲 Instagram Sneak Peek: Favorite IB Study Resources!
Looking for general study resources IB students like to use? Check out this reel from our Instagram page
🎥 Youtube Sneak Peek: A Week In the Life of an IB Student (The Philippines, EP.1)
Meet Daphne, a Year 1 IB student from the Philippines, as she takes you with her through a week in her life as an IB student! Want to see similar day-in-the-life videos? Check out out IBlieve Youtube Channel for Episodes 2 and 3!
👋 See you next week!
Thanks so much for reading this week! We believe in you!
Cheers,
IBlieve Team
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