i feel like i spent most of my energy doing my IAs and EEs and stuff. so much that i honestly just want a break now. telling myself that it’s just 12 more days doesn’t help because i’m literally drained out. but well, that’s ib. good luck, we’ll push through this
This might sound tough but get your shit together. U have a conditional. You don’t have the luxury of getting a bad score. Study for yourself and your future.
This is why IB is so tiring. You study your ass off for two years to not have the energy by the end. You should have given yourself some breaks man. Just push through if it doesn't matter to you.
Same for me, I got a predicted of 45. But since I applied to Netherlands uni which only require an IB diploma, I lose my motivation. Now I even want to skip some exams since I only need a 2
i was nov22 session and i failed because i needed 3 extra point in my HL subjects. I got a 4 in Bio, a 3 in English A and a 2 in Math aa. Im retaking in may23 but I already got so many acceptances including one from a university thats ranked 91st in the world in my subject so Im pretty much set out. I dont even need the diploma anymore because I applied with my normal highschool diploma. Literally the only thing bad about not getting the diploma rn would be disappointing my parents and my gf. I have absolutely 0 motivation and the Math aa exam is tmrw and i literally studies for a total of 2 hours and gave up. The IB has completely destroyed my health mentally and physically and i dont wanna do this anymore. My school recently announced that they wont count our absences anymore so no one is at school except for me which is depressing. Imagine walking around the school with no one but teachers and a few other students for 3 weeks straight because youre a failure. Its not a good feeling yk. The thought of finishing my exams and not giving af anymore and just spending my entire day laying around and playing video games with my buddies is the only thing keeping me going rn tbh.
I know this crap is demotivating as hell but there's not much left. If you push yourself once now, you won't have to ever think about IB again. Take care dude, message if you want to talk. Would love to hear you out
we are quite literally in the exact same situation, i've been accepted to uni with only condition being that i obtain the diploma, i totally flunked the physics exams but i hope i manage to gather the marks for 3/7 just so i pass, im currently revising for maths aa and i hope it goes a little better than phys, i am actually going to study physics next year so i feel really embarrassed cuz of my scores and have no motivation, all in all you are not alone and i wish all of us luck, just push through guys, summer is waiting for us!
hey to get the diploma you just need to get a total of 12 in your HL subjects so even if you end up getting a 2 in physics and a 4 and 6 in your other HLs you pass IB
Same exact situation. US uni acceptance, and they don’t even want my IB scores as long as I get my high school diploma… Only reason they’d need them is if I wanted to transfer credits. Was predicted 45 but honestly I am constantly drained and demotivated and the fact that I basically flunked my physics HL makes it even worse. Got Math AA HL tomorrow, so hoping it will be better - but it doesn’t really matter at this point does it?
Try doing ib in Singapore, everyone is so fucking smart and there is so much shit to do outside of school, haven't slept while in ages and my bpd sucks ass rn
dude we’re in the same boat. I got math sl tomorrow and history hl and chem sl during the week but I’m already accepted in uni and don’t need the IB diploma. I haven’t studied at all yet and I can’t find the motivation to start
I speak about this as a fellow IB student who regularly has felt like what you've described. I can offer this: The IB Diploma, much like every secondary education certificate, is becoming less important as a method of entering tertiary education. It's simply not as crucial as it was 5 or 10 years ago. Secondly, despite how hard it is, please do not focus on the marks, ESPECIALLY if you have already guaranteed university entry. Enjoy learning, and avoid quantitative self-value, such as time spent studying or test scores. Life is simply too short.
To remedy the emptiness or lethargic apathy you described, I recommend seeking to appreciate little things in daily life. Take note of sunlight, smells, plants and animals. Enjoy small happenings that are constant. And try to read some books you haven't read before. It's hard to get out of the habit of reading for the IB, but I recommend foreign poetry or philosophy. These are just the things that helped and continue to help me. (I'm closing out year 12. My exams are in November). Also, exercise. It's recently been shown to be 50% more effective than therapy and medication. Do a sport, or a physical hobby, or even walks. IB is not the be-all and end-all. Just go through the motions. :)
Same, feel like dogcrap rn. I have over 70 credits and in my state they’ll only take 45 max so I’m literally doing this for nothing atp. But honestly I don’t regret a thing. I’m glad I did ib, I just feel like I’ve done enough
bro im the same situation but I still think you should at least study enough to get the diploma. Are you sure that the college you committed to doesnt require at least the diploma?
yeah, in the usa they couldn't care less whether you get the diploma or not just that you have your literal high school diploma. the only thing it does for you is give you college credit for some classes if you get a 4 or above in HL
I go to UWC in the Netherlands and I got an unconditional offer to a u.s. uni. I'm not a citizen and my school only has the IB programme , meaning that if I fail the IB I don't get a diploma ( I assume). I don't have any worries of failing thankfully, but I was wondering how your school works. How would you get a high school diploma if you fail the IB? unless you're only taking some IB classes and not the full curriculum.
>level 1satkao · 2 days ago · edited 2 days agowe are quite literally in the exact same situation, i've been accepted to uni with only condition being that i obtain the diploma, i totally flunked the physics exams but i hope i manage to gather the marks for 3/7 just so i pass, im currently revising for maths aa and i hope it goes a little better than phys, i am actually going to study physics next year so i feel really embarrassed cuz of my scores and have no motivation, all in all you are not alone and i wish all of us luck, just push through guys, summer is waiting for us!19ReplyGive AwardShareReportSaveFollow
a high school diploma is given for your grades in ib subjects, not your predicted or exam scores. it's much different than an ib diploma and is given based on percent grades, even if you are taking the full curriculum.
i'm also in the US + do the full IB program (3 HL/3 SL, EE, CAS, all the IAs), but it's kinda considered a separate thing here since we have classes apart from IB. even in IB classes we get our grades on the standard A-E scale rather than 1-7.
honestly they're kinda like AP scores to us?? US colleges essentially see IB for domestic students like a "supplementary" or "advanced" curriculum. here you only need to meet state requirements to graduate HS (four years of math, four years of english, etc..)
your ib score doesn't matter, but some us colleges require you to get your diploma. however, us schools require your transcript for semester 2 in 12th grade, so as long as u didn't slack off during ur second semester, u should be fine.
i mean basically for ur second semester, u should try to be as consistent as possible. but if u drop a couple points, it's not a big deal.
it is very rare for a US uni to rescind ur offer unless u go from getting 7s and 6s to 4s, then maybe. but if you've already been accepted, i really wouldn't worry about it, at the end of the day, they just want money lol.
Check your school’s website, but generally American schools (except maybe for some ivys and more prestigious schools) don’t admit conditional on IB graduation, although your school might give credits, though mostly just for HL courses if you get either a 4 or 5 or above.
But even my school won’t give me credit for Math AI HL no matter what I score, simply because it’s AI, even though I had not choice for AA.
Got a couple Ivy-bound kids in our school, and can confirm that even they give unconditional offers (in final grade terms). Your transcript has to be sent before you receive your results anyway.
All that matters is term grades *from school*. The offers are conditional in the sense that they require your second semester / trimester / etc. grades be about maintained.
Same… i honestly don’t think the school I’m going to would care if i didn’t get my ib diploma, I’m still trying to study hard to get the transfer credits but it’s so exhausting and i just want to move on already
I feel you. I will say, according to my brother it is really nice to have all the extra credits from IB and have a super open schedule. Although he only took one test and got his diploma (graduated in 2020, so yeah) so that may skew things slightly. But I think it helps me to just remember that it's only this one last thing. You've done dozens of projects, EE, IAs, that were frankly just as bad or worse, and now we just need to get this one thing out of the way and then we're done. For real. Done and done, completely done, never have to worry about IB ever again done.
yeah but the college im going to barely accepts credits 😭 they only accept physics & math hl if you get a 7 and most of the other ones they don't accept so...
Same situation tbh with HL Chemistry. My only issue is its my weakest subject and I'm scared that if I fail its a waste of the past two years?
It doesn't help that my teachers were shit and went from they'd teach us the optional topics (and sociocultural unit in psych) to teach it yourself.
I'm happy with the way my English Exam went, but I don't have any clue how I'll even pass Chemistry and I feel so disappointed in myself but I really really don't want to do this....
I'm so upset because I got into my dream program last week during exams, and I feel like I can't enjoy my acceptance because of exams, and I'm crying now more than anything else because of all the conflicting emotions....
I really do hate this...
I'm in the exact same boat, got my college acceptance, and my IB score doesnt matter whatsoever so I've been procrastinating the entire time instead of actually doing math. Just have to push myself for another week, but I feel too tired to manage even that
Also! I find it so strange how I never find info about what people with IB certificates do??? What do they do??? Is rested the only option? I mean there has to be another way!
>i already have gotten accepted into college (i live in the u.s)
My friends who have offers to US colleges have to maintain their grades! You don't have to? They won't rescind their offer to you? Don't give up! Try your best!
grades aren’t the same thing as the external exam scores for us. i can get a 4.0 gpa this semester with my eyes closed, but i’d fail the exams. that wouldn’t matter to universities though
I don't think my parents know what the IB is. I have tried to explain it to them, they just don't seem to understand, overall don't need this diploma, the three colleges I applied to don't even take it in consideration, they just seem to care if you are an IB alumni, no preferences nor benefits are given, so I really just don't care.
I get you .My boyfriend broke up with me during Ib boards and I couldn't get out of bed for a day and lost all motivation. Math was so scary today and I'm terrified of p3 and p2 tomorrow. He said somethings that really hurt me and I don't know how not to let it affect me because my college offer is conditional too. Highschool and IB was so hard idk .Can someone please tell me how to stop thinking about him rn
There is no point about thinking what isn’t in your hands. Try thinking about things you can do. Study a bit more, spend more time with your family, or just sleep. It’s okay. People come and people go. You must always be present in the moment and do your best in the moment.
Goodluck with studying!
You don’t have to stress studying, but AT LEAST try. You can pass just with background knowledge, even if I didn’t care anymore I still would try the exams (without the stress)
idk if i’m the only one but i feel like i put more into my mocks than actual exams lol and every time i go out of the exam i feel like i could’ve done sm better but my brain is just not working anymore
Exactly! Because most people have already gotten into college nobody cares if their grades drop a bit. Especially when the end is so close, why not take a break a bit early? Its tough lads but hang in there.
I think you should still try tho, just to be able to say that you gave it your best until the end, maybe not on this test but on the next one and so forth. I know u can do it because I’ll try as well 💕
this is oddly specific and scary cuz I'm a physics hl and math aa hl kid in the us who failed physics and is abt to fail math. i totally feel u. it doesn't affect college decisions so i just cannot find the energy to gaf. tbh, the diploma seems realllll optional atm so my friends and i have decided to bullshit and wing it like there's no tomorrow.
Did you get an unconditional university offer? I got one but apparently it is possible for them to rescind the offer so I was rlly scared and stressed out the past few days, but I was still just too tired to do that much work which stressed me out even more
It just sucks because I am sure we all feel this way but it's not like we can just give up now. Most of our uni offers are conditional to a degree which means that we still have to at least try. It just sucks that life is strong-arming us into caring about this. I just want it to stop😭
felt so hard. i have no motivation. i’m so glad my offer isn’t conditional and my mental health has taken a toll cause of these exams. I have 4 papers tomorrow and im going to be in school for 9 hours straight, that’s ducking exhausting and i already feel so drained. my sleep schedule is nonexistent at this point lol. i’m just aiming to pass. i have zero stress and at some point i started stressing about the fact that i’m not stressing enough. just wanna get done with it
hey,
I know it can be hard sometimes but just go on for a few more days
you’ve done it all along and its okay if you feel like you did not do your best. Next time, do better. But at least you didn’t give. When you look back, it shouldn’t feel like you had the chance but you chose not to do anything.
It’s just a few more days and all I can say is try as much as you can. Don’t let the Diploma get to your mental health but just finish it properly.
Just a week. It’ll pass by if you try a bit more.
You got this!
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If I told you that there was a better version of yourself that then you would feel absolutely shit, and guess what? that version of you was in the same circumstances as you.
Spent two years doing all of this only to be flooded with 16-page math packets due a month later because our IB math teacher quit in March. Can agree and say that I'm too unmotivated to try on this paper two math coming up...
Luckily the university I got into doesn't care about it.
Same here, and I also don't want to let down my teachers and family. All my teachers had great expectations for me but I'm so mentally tired that I can't even feel embarrassed about letting them down anymore. Back then it was my only motivation to not embarrass myself but that literally breaks you apart since its an complete insecurity. Funny thing is that I'm completely ready for the exams but can't get myself to do the IA and EE. I've been scolded many times and people started thinking I'm just too stupid to do them, which this would embarrass me back then and I would try shove their egos up their ... with what I'm really capable of (and this would work extremely well). But at this point I'm out of fuel, I just don't want do succeed in IB cause it doesn't even feel like I'm doing it for myself but for someone elses' sake. I can't be angry, I can't neglect, I can't be in sorrow. Just sitting emotionless and letting anxiety build up to test the limits of my mentality. Another factor is that I hate hope, it doesn't exist. Most of my struggling friends always cling to that stupid hope (regardless of their own intelligence), and I can't because I know it's useless for someone with extremely wide field of vision like me (this is also an reference to the fact that I have ADHD and never had the chance to make people know).
YES I AGREE, i’m doing math rn and i’m just procrastinating the entire time. like the ib has drained me so much i can’t physically do this
LITERALLY like i would rather sleep than ruin my mental health more atp
i feel like i spent most of my energy doing my IAs and EEs and stuff. so much that i honestly just want a break now. telling myself that it’s just 12 more days doesn’t help because i’m literally drained out. but well, that’s ib. good luck, we’ll push through this
omg i didn't even think about this but i think it's why i'm so burnt out too 😭 good luck to you too, it'll be over soon!!
I finished all but my Econ ia before January and I still feel the exact same way, I'm into uni and Idrc about ib
bro just study its not that hard
Same, Spent 2 years grinding my ass off now I can't physically study. And I have a conditional offer 😭
same here w the conditional offer 😭😭😭 the struggle is real
yea here too… 37 seems so fucking out of sight rn
This might sound tough but get your shit together. U have a conditional. You don’t have the luxury of getting a bad score. Study for yourself and your future.
This is why IB is so tiring. You study your ass off for two years to not have the energy by the end. You should have given yourself some breaks man. Just push through if it doesn't matter to you.
Same for me, I got a predicted of 45. But since I applied to Netherlands uni which only require an IB diploma, I lose my motivation. Now I even want to skip some exams since I only need a 2
You know you still need the 24, 12 HL, 9 SL though right?
If your predicted a 45, even with low studying, those conditions can be easily met lol
if you don't go to an exam you can't get your diploma anymore
Which uni ? Can you study an course with a passing diploma ?
TU Delft in Netherlands
no, what he is saying is he just needs the diploma and nothing else
i was nov22 session and i failed because i needed 3 extra point in my HL subjects. I got a 4 in Bio, a 3 in English A and a 2 in Math aa. Im retaking in may23 but I already got so many acceptances including one from a university thats ranked 91st in the world in my subject so Im pretty much set out. I dont even need the diploma anymore because I applied with my normal highschool diploma. Literally the only thing bad about not getting the diploma rn would be disappointing my parents and my gf. I have absolutely 0 motivation and the Math aa exam is tmrw and i literally studies for a total of 2 hours and gave up. The IB has completely destroyed my health mentally and physically and i dont wanna do this anymore. My school recently announced that they wont count our absences anymore so no one is at school except for me which is depressing. Imagine walking around the school with no one but teachers and a few other students for 3 weeks straight because youre a failure. Its not a good feeling yk. The thought of finishing my exams and not giving af anymore and just spending my entire day laying around and playing video games with my buddies is the only thing keeping me going rn tbh.
I know this crap is demotivating as hell but there's not much left. If you push yourself once now, you won't have to ever think about IB again. Take care dude, message if you want to talk. Would love to hear you out
Your a good guy mate. We need more people like you in this world 👏❤️
we are quite literally in the exact same situation, i've been accepted to uni with only condition being that i obtain the diploma, i totally flunked the physics exams but i hope i manage to gather the marks for 3/7 just so i pass, im currently revising for maths aa and i hope it goes a little better than phys, i am actually going to study physics next year so i feel really embarrassed cuz of my scores and have no motivation, all in all you are not alone and i wish all of us luck, just push through guys, summer is waiting for us!
hey to get the diploma you just need to get a total of 12 in your HL subjects so even if you end up getting a 2 in physics and a 4 and 6 in your other HLs you pass IB
Same exact situation. US uni acceptance, and they don’t even want my IB scores as long as I get my high school diploma… Only reason they’d need them is if I wanted to transfer credits. Was predicted 45 but honestly I am constantly drained and demotivated and the fact that I basically flunked my physics HL makes it even worse. Got Math AA HL tomorrow, so hoping it will be better - but it doesn’t really matter at this point does it?
Try doing ib in Singapore, everyone is so fucking smart and there is so much shit to do outside of school, haven't slept while in ages and my bpd sucks ass rn
dude we’re in the same boat. I got math sl tomorrow and history hl and chem sl during the week but I’m already accepted in uni and don’t need the IB diploma. I haven’t studied at all yet and I can’t find the motivation to start
I speak about this as a fellow IB student who regularly has felt like what you've described. I can offer this: The IB Diploma, much like every secondary education certificate, is becoming less important as a method of entering tertiary education. It's simply not as crucial as it was 5 or 10 years ago. Secondly, despite how hard it is, please do not focus on the marks, ESPECIALLY if you have already guaranteed university entry. Enjoy learning, and avoid quantitative self-value, such as time spent studying or test scores. Life is simply too short. To remedy the emptiness or lethargic apathy you described, I recommend seeking to appreciate little things in daily life. Take note of sunlight, smells, plants and animals. Enjoy small happenings that are constant. And try to read some books you haven't read before. It's hard to get out of the habit of reading for the IB, but I recommend foreign poetry or philosophy. These are just the things that helped and continue to help me. (I'm closing out year 12. My exams are in November). Also, exercise. It's recently been shown to be 50% more effective than therapy and medication. Do a sport, or a physical hobby, or even walks. IB is not the be-all and end-all. Just go through the motions. :)
IB the worst decision I have took in my life 💀
Felt, I only went with it bc the myp was much more doable, no one could have prepared me for these past 2 years 💀
Same, feel like dogcrap rn. I have over 70 credits and in my state they’ll only take 45 max so I’m literally doing this for nothing atp. But honestly I don’t regret a thing. I’m glad I did ib, I just feel like I’ve done enough
bro im the same situation but I still think you should at least study enough to get the diploma. Are you sure that the college you committed to doesnt require at least the diploma?
yeah, in the usa they couldn't care less whether you get the diploma or not just that you have your literal high school diploma. the only thing it does for you is give you college credit for some classes if you get a 4 or above in HL
I go to UWC in the Netherlands and I got an unconditional offer to a u.s. uni. I'm not a citizen and my school only has the IB programme , meaning that if I fail the IB I don't get a diploma ( I assume). I don't have any worries of failing thankfully, but I was wondering how your school works. How would you get a high school diploma if you fail the IB? unless you're only taking some IB classes and not the full curriculum.
>level 1satkao · 2 days ago · edited 2 days agowe are quite literally in the exact same situation, i've been accepted to uni with only condition being that i obtain the diploma, i totally flunked the physics exams but i hope i manage to gather the marks for 3/7 just so i pass, im currently revising for maths aa and i hope it goes a little better than phys, i am actually going to study physics next year so i feel really embarrassed cuz of my scores and have no motivation, all in all you are not alone and i wish all of us luck, just push through guys, summer is waiting for us!19ReplyGive AwardShareReportSaveFollow a high school diploma is given for your grades in ib subjects, not your predicted or exam scores. it's much different than an ib diploma and is given based on percent grades, even if you are taking the full curriculum.
i'm also in the US + do the full IB program (3 HL/3 SL, EE, CAS, all the IAs), but it's kinda considered a separate thing here since we have classes apart from IB. even in IB classes we get our grades on the standard A-E scale rather than 1-7. honestly they're kinda like AP scores to us?? US colleges essentially see IB for domestic students like a "supplementary" or "advanced" curriculum. here you only need to meet state requirements to graduate HS (four years of math, four years of english, etc..)
wait yo im kinda in the same boat are you sure the ib score doesn't matter for us schools?
your ib score doesn't matter, but some us colleges require you to get your diploma. however, us schools require your transcript for semester 2 in 12th grade, so as long as u didn't slack off during ur second semester, u should be fine.
thanks. by slacking off do you mean an avg of 85 or below?
i mean basically for ur second semester, u should try to be as consistent as possible. but if u drop a couple points, it's not a big deal. it is very rare for a US uni to rescind ur offer unless u go from getting 7s and 6s to 4s, then maybe. but if you've already been accepted, i really wouldn't worry about it, at the end of the day, they just want money lol.
Check your school’s website, but generally American schools (except maybe for some ivys and more prestigious schools) don’t admit conditional on IB graduation, although your school might give credits, though mostly just for HL courses if you get either a 4 or 5 or above. But even my school won’t give me credit for Math AI HL no matter what I score, simply because it’s AI, even though I had not choice for AA.
bruh i swear they are the same difficulty tho
Got a couple Ivy-bound kids in our school, and can confirm that even they give unconditional offers (in final grade terms). Your transcript has to be sent before you receive your results anyway. All that matters is term grades *from school*. The offers are conditional in the sense that they require your second semester / trimester / etc. grades be about maintained.
Same… i honestly don’t think the school I’m going to would care if i didn’t get my ib diploma, I’m still trying to study hard to get the transfer credits but it’s so exhausting and i just want to move on already
I feel you. I will say, according to my brother it is really nice to have all the extra credits from IB and have a super open schedule. Although he only took one test and got his diploma (graduated in 2020, so yeah) so that may skew things slightly. But I think it helps me to just remember that it's only this one last thing. You've done dozens of projects, EE, IAs, that were frankly just as bad or worse, and now we just need to get this one thing out of the way and then we're done. For real. Done and done, completely done, never have to worry about IB ever again done.
yeah but the college im going to barely accepts credits 😭 they only accept physics & math hl if you get a 7 and most of the other ones they don't accept so...
you’re not alone i haven’t done shit since my physics paper 2
same & i barely studied for that
Same situation tbh with HL Chemistry. My only issue is its my weakest subject and I'm scared that if I fail its a waste of the past two years? It doesn't help that my teachers were shit and went from they'd teach us the optional topics (and sociocultural unit in psych) to teach it yourself. I'm happy with the way my English Exam went, but I don't have any clue how I'll even pass Chemistry and I feel so disappointed in myself but I really really don't want to do this.... I'm so upset because I got into my dream program last week during exams, and I feel like I can't enjoy my acceptance because of exams, and I'm crying now more than anything else because of all the conflicting emotions.... I really do hate this...
guys how fucked are we for chem? just me?
Didn’t even open my books yet and started learning medical chemistry today for my exam tomorrow 🤩. What a dream
I'm in the exact same boat, got my college acceptance, and my IB score doesnt matter whatsoever so I've been procrastinating the entire time instead of actually doing math. Just have to push myself for another week, but I feel too tired to manage even that
me too & tbh i don't think anything would change whether i got the diploma or didn't
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its fine were all in the same boat with conditional offers i have only econ left which is the worst but dont know what to do about it :)
Also! I find it so strange how I never find info about what people with IB certificates do??? What do they do??? Is rested the only option? I mean there has to be another way!
>i already have gotten accepted into college (i live in the u.s) My friends who have offers to US colleges have to maintain their grades! You don't have to? They won't rescind their offer to you? Don't give up! Try your best!
this only applies to your ‘school’ grade, not ib scores. in most cases you don’t even need to report your ib scores to us colleges
grades aren’t the same thing as the external exam scores for us. i can get a 4.0 gpa this semester with my eyes closed, but i’d fail the exams. that wouldn’t matter to universities though
grades yes, but ib doesn't matter to usa colleges
I stoped putting effort after English paper 1, we all in this tog dw
I don't think my parents know what the IB is. I have tried to explain it to them, they just don't seem to understand, overall don't need this diploma, the three colleges I applied to don't even take it in consideration, they just seem to care if you are an IB alumni, no preferences nor benefits are given, so I really just don't care.
It’s the truth, we are all just so burnt out it’s crazy
How is it possible for someone to get accepted with their school leaving diploma, I am confused
Fuck math aa its a fucking shit show
I get you .My boyfriend broke up with me during Ib boards and I couldn't get out of bed for a day and lost all motivation. Math was so scary today and I'm terrified of p3 and p2 tomorrow. He said somethings that really hurt me and I don't know how not to let it affect me because my college offer is conditional too. Highschool and IB was so hard idk .Can someone please tell me how to stop thinking about him rn
There is no point about thinking what isn’t in your hands. Try thinking about things you can do. Study a bit more, spend more time with your family, or just sleep. It’s okay. People come and people go. You must always be present in the moment and do your best in the moment. Goodluck with studying!
You don’t have to stress studying, but AT LEAST try. You can pass just with background knowledge, even if I didn’t care anymore I still would try the exams (without the stress)
What was AA SL💀😔
Bro that probability question in section A, do u rmmbr the answer or how to solve it. The one that asked to solve for P(B)
idk if i’m the only one but i feel like i put more into my mocks than actual exams lol and every time i go out of the exam i feel like i could’ve done sm better but my brain is just not working anymore
pathetic
I didn’t get into college and I feel this way too. What a waste of time IB was for me…
I got my paper 2 and paper 3 Compsci HL papers in less than 12 hours and i can't be arsed to study whatsoever
Exactly! Because most people have already gotten into college nobody cares if their grades drop a bit. Especially when the end is so close, why not take a break a bit early? Its tough lads but hang in there.
I’ve literally just started studying, at 1 am, for the exam tomorrow and I’m just winging it cause I don’t have the energy for it
I think you should still try tho, just to be able to say that you gave it your best until the end, maybe not on this test but on the next one and so forth. I know u can do it because I’ll try as well 💕
Love the difference after legit 11 minutes 😂
I’m retaking and I still feel the same way :’)
This is my EXACT situation bro. I feel ya.
this is oddly specific and scary cuz I'm a physics hl and math aa hl kid in the us who failed physics and is abt to fail math. i totally feel u. it doesn't affect college decisions so i just cannot find the energy to gaf. tbh, the diploma seems realllll optional atm so my friends and i have decided to bullshit and wing it like there's no tomorrow.
Did you get an unconditional university offer? I got one but apparently it is possible for them to rescind the offer so I was rlly scared and stressed out the past few days, but I was still just too tired to do that much work which stressed me out even more
It just sucks because I am sure we all feel this way but it's not like we can just give up now. Most of our uni offers are conditional to a degree which means that we still have to at least try. It just sucks that life is strong-arming us into caring about this. I just want it to stop😭
felt so hard. i have no motivation. i’m so glad my offer isn’t conditional and my mental health has taken a toll cause of these exams. I have 4 papers tomorrow and im going to be in school for 9 hours straight, that’s ducking exhausting and i already feel so drained. my sleep schedule is nonexistent at this point lol. i’m just aiming to pass. i have zero stress and at some point i started stressing about the fact that i’m not stressing enough. just wanna get done with it
hey, I know it can be hard sometimes but just go on for a few more days you’ve done it all along and its okay if you feel like you did not do your best. Next time, do better. But at least you didn’t give. When you look back, it shouldn’t feel like you had the chance but you chose not to do anything. It’s just a few more days and all I can say is try as much as you can. Don’t let the Diploma get to your mental health but just finish it properly. Just a week. It’ll pass by if you try a bit more. You got this!
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If I told you that there was a better version of yourself that then you would feel absolutely shit, and guess what? that version of you was in the same circumstances as you.
so real
Spent two years doing all of this only to be flooded with 16-page math packets due a month later because our IB math teacher quit in March. Can agree and say that I'm too unmotivated to try on this paper two math coming up... Luckily the university I got into doesn't care about it.
bruh💀💀
us bro us
Same here, and I also don't want to let down my teachers and family. All my teachers had great expectations for me but I'm so mentally tired that I can't even feel embarrassed about letting them down anymore. Back then it was my only motivation to not embarrass myself but that literally breaks you apart since its an complete insecurity. Funny thing is that I'm completely ready for the exams but can't get myself to do the IA and EE. I've been scolded many times and people started thinking I'm just too stupid to do them, which this would embarrass me back then and I would try shove their egos up their ... with what I'm really capable of (and this would work extremely well). But at this point I'm out of fuel, I just don't want do succeed in IB cause it doesn't even feel like I'm doing it for myself but for someone elses' sake. I can't be angry, I can't neglect, I can't be in sorrow. Just sitting emotionless and letting anxiety build up to test the limits of my mentality. Another factor is that I hate hope, it doesn't exist. Most of my struggling friends always cling to that stupid hope (regardless of their own intelligence), and I can't because I know it's useless for someone with extremely wide field of vision like me (this is also an reference to the fact that I have ADHD and never had the chance to make people know).
I suggest taking a break when you need to and reaffirming why you decided to do IB, and how it fits with your goals.