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Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Happy Tuesday!
August is the time when many students are just about to start their two year IB Diploma Programme journey. We are so excited for you! It can be super intimidating, but don’t worry: you have a long time to get your head round it, and so many people to ask for help. Try to just enjoy learning for a while 🤩
A great place to start if you’re feeling lost is IBlieve’s blog. Today, we’ve highlighted some overview articles to get you started, but feel free to have a browse. Or, if your attention span is not quite up to articles, check out our bitesize Instagram infographics!
Here’s what you’ll find in today’s newsletter:
NEW Blog posts!
IG Sneak Peak: Luisa’s experience with IB Course Selection
Subject Breakdown: Physics, from IB grad Joseph
Student Spotlight: Daphne!
Cheers,
Imogen and Katie❤️
📚 Blog Posts!
Whenever you have a question about IB, check out our Blog! With over 200 posts, you are sure to find super helpful advice from our amazing IB graduates and High School Ambassadors. Here are all our most recent articles!
🏃 About the IB
4 Myths About the IB Diploma Program - Albert
The IB Subject Dilemma: HL or SL? - Monica
4 Tips on How to Select your IB Subjects - Micaela
Overview: M22 Changes - Vaishnavi
✏️ Math
📲IG Sneak Peak:
Find beautiful illustrations of our best advice on our Instagram and Facebook. Here’s Luisa’s experience with IB Course Selection!
📝Subject Breakdown: Physics
In a brand-new section, we’re highlighting articles which breakdown the best tips for a specific IB subject. This week, we’re summarising IB grad Joseph’s wisdom on how to ace your Physics Papers 1 and 2!
Paper 1: Pay attention to the time crunch, make sure to answer all the easy questions, use process of elimination to narrow down choices, and, if it gets to it, guess! For more detail, check out his article here.
Paper 2: Maximise reading time, start with topics that give you confidence, use equations to get definitions of concepts, and make sure you pay attention to mark distribution. And much more… read here in Part 2!
🌟 Student Spotlight
We’re inviting new High School Ambassadors or IB graduates to write messages every week, so we can hear more student voices and IB experiences around the world. Today, we’ll hear from Daphne, an M22 student on IBlieve’s Video and Social Media Teams!
Hey there! My name is Daphne, an M22 student based in the Philippines, and I am here to give you that extra Monday push!
If you made it this far into the newsletter, I just wanted to say a big thank you! Back to school is just around the corner, in fact mine starts the day you receive this email! Some of you may be entering your first year of the IB program, while some may be going into your second and final year. No matter where you are in your IB journey, the IBlieve Team is proud of everything you have achieved so far. We are always here to support you in anyway, shape or form. From our daily articles, to our weekly newsletter and Youtube videos, we hope to make your time in the IB program smoother, easier and much more fun!
I hope you had a restful and productive summer!
All the best,
Daphne from IBlieve’s Video and Social Media Team
👋 See you next week!
Thanks so much for reading this week! We believe in you!
Sending virtual hugs,
Anoushka
M21 Grad from Hong Kong 🇭🇰
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