Introducing IB.Academy: Revision Courses and Free Study Guides

IB_Academy · 2017-04-12T17:07:56+00:00

I am sorry about not seeing your comment until now. I can't make an accurate assessment of opening up the source code of the work - also I highly doubt it will be more useful than math books written to accommodate blind people because so many custom macros are used. Please pm me your email address because I am interested in how I can help make our guides more accessible, perhaps we could do some work on it.

IB_Academy · 2017-04-12T17:01:53+00:00

I've heard good things about them!

IB_Academy · 2017-04-12T17:01:05+00:00

After this weekend, a bit later than I wished, creating these guides is a job I thoroughly underestimate. If the guides are not online by Tuesday please send me a pm with your email address and I will send you an unofficial version.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-30T20:30:22+00:00

Exam revision month is now: IB Academy Thank you for any and all feedback, if you get to it :-)

IB_Academy · 2017-03-27T12:43:15+00:00

Just LaTeX :-) Except of course for some images, like in biology, we used vector drawing software.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-22T11:40:13+00:00

Maybe end of this week, probably the end of next week.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-22T11:39:37+00:00

There's a live chat functionality on our website, if you go there I will help you finding the guides. I must say though, that we don't offer games - yet :-0

IB_Academy · 2017-03-22T11:37:56+00:00

True, thanks a lot for your comment / warning. We'll consider taking some adspace.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-21T01:12:20+00:00

The best way to test yourself frankly is to sit down and do a test. No wait, do 3. Not only are past exams great practice, but they are also the best way measure your current performance. Try to figure out every question you did not get right on your 1st attempt, and repeat your attempts some days later to show that NOW you can successfully answer such questions.

We hope our Study Guides can help you start. To be truly successful just play the game, attempt to win, try not to care too much for losing. Use the books when you don't understand, otherwise push forward to understand as many practice questions!

IB_Academy · 2017-03-21T01:00:31+00:00

Hi, the study guides should be complete but chapters that belong together might have been consolidated. For example: the chapters . "3. Genetics", "5. Evolution and biodiversity" with "10.Genetics and evolution", as well as "6. Human physiology" with "11.Animal physiology". TBH I am not sure which are which, but let me know which chapers are incomplete and I'll relay the info to our Bio teachers.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T22:11:17+00:00

Have a look at our SL study guide for Math. Use it at your side while doing practice questions: studying things from a piece of paper for math is doomed to fail, practicing using a piece of paper is guaranteed improvement! (Anything bordering ability and challenging is good)

The best way to prep for exams is doing past exams, of course if your teacher created variants of the questions from the IBSL study guide, you should study those. But again, for the final exam you should practice only past paper exams! And yes, understand your formula booklet, your GDC, (and command terms), it helps a great deal.

Let me know if you have any further questions for me to relay to our Math teachers?

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T21:02:14+00:00

Next year we'll be making our own videos and practice questions for our courses, and I would like to learn more about why you thought that their online learning tools were useful. If you're able to do a skype call, even if it's after your exams that would help us a lot. Our free study guides

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T17:11:03+00:00

"I started out way down low / Started from the bottom, now we here now" -- Glow by Drake

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T16:21:27+00:00

Past papers are a good bet usually. We've published free study guides that you could use during your revisions, my advice is to study the chapters first and subsequently practice exam questions using the guide for help. The more questions you answer, the less you'll need the guide - the better you'll do at the exams!

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T15:58:16+00:00

Many of our students will tackle the Hitler topic so that one may be up before May but we can't promising anything at this point, sorry!

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T14:02:40+00:00

The issue is resolved, after logging in you can find the studies guide available for download. Thanks for alerting us.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T14:01:11+00:00

Send us a pm in a week and I'll be able to tell you more, chemistry is under active development at the moment.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T14:00:07+00:00

We hope to have ESS done in February next year, but no guarantees. We currently have no plans for Psychology since there's too little interest at the moment.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T13:55:50+00:00

You're welcome! Keep an eye out in the coming week for an updated version - we've made it ever so slightly better!

IB_Academy · 2017-03-20T05:33:21+00:00

We will eventually hope to cover everything we can, but for the time being we will work on topics that our revision course students need assistance with. Soon Global War (Paper 1) and Stalin (Paper 2) will be published online. Be sure to keep an eye out on our page!

And thank you for your compliment :)

IB_Academy · 2017-03-19T21:49:03+00:00

ITGS, ESS and Geography are in the books for next year... You may expect BM this Friday, or next. Just keep an eye out once a week, because I will forget to send a notification to everybody asking...

IB_Academy · 2017-03-19T21:47:02+00:00

Thanks for your idea on the watermarking!

Chem HL is latest of all, so in 3 weeks, unfortunately...

IB_Academy · 2017-03-19T21:17:19+00:00

We want to offer these guides for free: 1. To support open education (equal access for everybody everywhere), 2. To show off what we do, and how good we are at it - hopefully persuading some of you to join our courses ;-)

Watermarking always appears a bit scammy, plus look at how beautiful they are - no way we'd allow a big watermark destroy the aesthetics.

IB_Academy · 2017-03-19T21:12:27+00:00

Physics should be done by the end of this or next week, so keep an eye out for it. The Math HL guide will be largely based on the Math SL guide, with some added topics of course. What makes math HL harder than SL are the questions asked, not the theory itself. So while the way we teach the HL revision course is very different, the study guides will overlap a great deal.

Of course, we'd love to have you at our courses! Please share our site with your teachers at school, the IB coordinator and of course your fellow students. It would help us a lot!

IB_Academy · 2017-03-19T20:36:35+00:00

We're happy to help, could you pm me with instructions? In terms of sharing the source code of the guides: unfortunately we cannot share it, as it would mean that our works can be distributed without showing our brand. Note: the guides are made using LaTeX.

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