A few questions and answers about studying or revising online.
Q. Okay, let’s start with the BIG question, why should I study or revise for the IB diploma online?
A. First of all, let’s start by saying that every opportunity you take to study or revise is likely to improve your knowledge and learning about your subject. If you want to do well in the exam, then you need to take every opportunity offered to you to study or revise. By offering ...
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At Oxford Study Courses, we have a long tradition of offering quality revision courses to IB diploma students. We make a point of using fully qualified and experienced teachers of the International Baccalaureate to deliver our revision classes to students. We feel this is vitally important for it means that as a student of OSC, you can be assured of receiving the best in revision support.
Increasingly, education is taking advantage of the online world and is using technology to help ...
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There can be few people who like exams, especially when so much depends upon the outcome of them. It cannot be denied that the IB Diploma is such an examination. So much depends on it; not only your university place but also probably your career and future life. With so much depending upon it, it’s not difficult to see why success in the exam is important.
OSC has been providing support for IB diploma students for many years now and we’ve ...
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In a previous post, I had suggested that few people like exams. Reflecting upon that statement has led me to think why might someone actually really like exams.
At first, it may seem a difficult concept to grasp; that some people actually like exams. After all, exams are stressful, time consuming (both in preparing for and sitting the exam) and often tedious (you often have to sit in a room for ‘ages’). So what is it that leads ...
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Learners forget over their summer break. That’s not new, you will hear teachers say that wherever you go. It seems the break between academic years is almost designed to allow students to forget much of what they learned at the end of the previous year.
The effect of this is that teachers and students often have to spend the first few weeks going over what had been previously covered before the ...
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A few questions and answers about studying or revising online.
Q. Okay, let’s start with the BIG question, why should I study or revise for the IB diploma online?
A. First of all, let’sstart by saying that every opportunity you take to study or revise is likely to improve your knowledge and learning about your subject. If you want to do well in the exam, then you need to take every opportunity offered to you to study or revise. By offering students ...
Learn more ... ShareAre you new to the International Baccalaureate (IB) ? Have you started your IB studies or maybe you are about to start next year? Would you like to give yourself a headstart on others? Would you like to find out more about what’s expected of you in your chosen subjects?
Oxford Study Courses can now offer you online pre-IB sessions to help you find out more about what’s expected of you and what you can expect to do in your IB ...
Learn more ... ShareThere are 2 questions to choose from. Each question is worth 30 marks. Each question will have some stimulus material; usually there is one pictorial source and one text source. The question now always comes in the same format of the three bullet points (see past exams papers from 2009 0nwards for an example). Your answer should be about 750 – 1000 words long. You have about 50 minutes to write your answer.
Make sure your answer is well structured and ...
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Virtually every important issue in the world today, from climate change to poverty in Africa, can only be fully understood with some knowledge of Economics. It is one of the most relevant subjects for today’s global student. Although challenging, it is deeply rewarding, combines well with all other subjects and is a highly respected group 3 subject choice for entry into the most competitive and prestigious British Universities.
The Language A Literature and the Language A 
Language and Literature course provides candidates with the opportunity to study texts, both literary and non literary. Thereby, it provides a focus for developing an understanding and appreciation of how language works to create meanings in a culture, as well as in particular texts. Another important aspect of the course is the way the use of language sustains or challenges ways ...