Sell your soul for an IB diploma.

Oh gosh, I’ll try my best here.
Make sure you use all of the review materials your teachers give you. They’re all worth it. Don’t stay up until the crack of dawn studying; get your sleep, get your breakfast, and stay sane. When you get to the test, just take a few deep breaths and don’t think about anyone else in the room. If you start to feel freaked out, set your pencil down, close your eyes, and just breathe. You have plenty of time for most of the tests. Just try to relax and stay on task. You’ll do great!

Also, study groups help a lot. If you or any of your friends have the actual IB guide book for studying that you can buy on your own, get together and review everything in that book. It saved my life for my IB Biology test!  :)

I think this depends on the quality of your teacher. My teacher junior year knew so much, but he taught so little and my senior year teacher was a dink. If your teacher is good, then you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. I would recommend looking into getting the IB Biology guide. I used it to study for my IB Biology test this past year and without it, I am positive I would have failed.

Well, I’m sure it differs a little according to which school you go to. AT my school, as long as you actually did your reading assignments, it really wasn’t that bad. You do get sleep, as a matter of a fact, I recommend you get at least six hours of sleep a night, no matter what you have left to do. That way, you’ll retain what you already learned instead of trying to cram it all. Now, homework, you have a TON of reading every night. But that’s usually all there is. Occasionally I got a worksheet, but I had longer to fill it out than I had to complete the reading, so that wasn’t a big deal. Social life is a hard one. If you’re in sports or theatre or basically any after school activity, say goodbye to having a social life outside of the weekends. Even some weekends you’ll be busy because of huge projects that you procrastinated against. Your social life will become IB. When I graduated, I watched every student get up and get their diploma and honestly, I forgot the majority of them existed because they weren’t in IB. I know I’m probably making it sound awful, but it isn’t terrible. Some nights, you will get extremely stressed out and depending on your current mental state, you might have a breakdown but that doesn’t happen often at all. You’ll be fine, I promise. When you’re done, you’ll feel like you’re on top of the world. 

P.S. One last tip, DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT procrastinate on your Extended Essay. If you do, your last two weeks of summer will be Hell.

AP is advanced placement!