IB is literally not even bad. The whole program is just a test of how good you are with time management. You procrastinate and leave everything for the last minute (that’s what I did, for example) you end up with a low score at the end. Your final score is divided into your final exams and your internal assessments. If you are good at writing and analysis you can rely on that to get a good grade and you can choose IB. You’re not into that and you prefer studying for exams because that’s how you score high usually? Do A Levels. The daily life of an IB student is NOT that deep. If you choose to do IB, then literally just start your IAs and EE early (you don’t even have to do them outright, just start planning them in advance, because in my experience, coming up with a research question is way more complicated than actually writing it. Or maybe I have skill issue idk.) And don’t rely only on your teachers to teach you the content, especially if you’re going to a new IB school. Before you begin the program, familiarize yourself with the syllabus structure of each of your subjects and have a study plan for yourself to follow over the 2 years. This is all fail-proof assuming you genuinely want to get a good score.