htmlSchool is the season for school opening. Entering IBDP from pre-IB or IGCSE means that the entire learning rhythm, method and task volume have undergone earth-shaking changes. Many students will feel busy and difficult to deal with after school starts. In October and November, various subject competitions have begun one after another, the tasks are heavier and the pressure is getting greater and greater.
For students who have just entered the 11th grade, it is very important to adjust their status as soon as possible during the start of school. At the same time, laying a solid foundation for the competition and accumulating experience and awards is also very important. So, when the "school season" meets the "preparation season", how should we steadily overcome the "high pressure" period?
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[Progress bar] Students vs. Teachers' eyes 10/11 grade
⚠️ Three major misunderstandings for IB students
Homogeneity? Differentiation?
Many students will feel that entering a new stage is a brand new starting line. They can level the progress with other students and set off together. However, in daily contact with classmates from various schools, we found that the progress of IB schools is very different .
Take the mathematics subject that all students are compulsory as an example. The outline stipulates that needs to complete 5 modules in two years. The more well-known IB schools in Shanghai have included schools and education. has already learned the content of the fourth chapter two weeks before the start of the school year. On the other hand, some schools with slow progress and relatively loose overseas schools may still be learning the content of the first chapter.
The top schools are getting more and more “ intra-volume ” learning progress, bringing students more review time, and also providing students with knowledge reserves in advance for writing IA. More importantly, in advance learning of knowledge points in class allows students to be more "silky" when preparing for competitions.
For example, AMC competes in November, and many students have already finished IB mathematics in November. Most of the contents of the two-year syllabus are . What remains are advanced statistics and advanced calculus, and these two parts happen to be not involved in AMC. Therefore, for these students, they only need to make up for the content of the competition and make more flexible in their questions, and they can deal with it.
loose first and then tighten? Tighten first and then loose?
I believe everyone has heard rumors in the world - "IB students don't have time to sleep" . Indeed, the IB system learning tasks are relatively more cumbersome and time-consuming, but in fact, the direct reason for the extremely stressful situation of many students is that the task arrangement is unreasonable.
Many students will be accustomed to touching fish and paddling at the beginning of the school stage, and then adjusting their state and sprinting until the exam is about to start. However, in fact, the pace of IB should be the opposite - 11 grade should be the period when the task is the heaviest and the foundation is laid, so that subsequent learning and activities can be more organized.
It can be seen that in fact, by the second semester, everyone has no time to focus on studying in class. In the summer vacation, it is even more "dark before dawn", and it is the steepest slope before climbing to the top. If you can learn the knowledge in class solidly when the tasks in the first semester are not so intensive, it will leave more room for subsequent learning.
DDL lost?
The third misunderstanding that follows is actually everyone's confusion about ddl. As mentioned just now, many of the time nodes faced by IB students are not the final "big test", but may be spread to every month of the two years of DP.
For students, Anxiety for unclear task division and unclear future planning will lead to greater stress, and will also reduce learning efficiency, causing tasks to delay , which will lead to greater anxiety, repeating and vicious cycle.
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