Don’t let the IB exams scare you!! With revision and hard work, you’ll do great!

It’s time to make sure all your coursework is close to being done, and that you start revising! 118 days sounds like a huge amount of time, but it will fly! And every little bit of revision WILL HELP!

Do a little bit each night, don’t go crazy, but don’t be too relaxed about it, a bit of work in the evenings and you’ll help secure the best grade possible. Get a few revision guides if you think that will help, they are listed on this site here, many with reviews.

And most importantly, Good Luck! (I’ll be sure to wish you this as the time draws closer!)

You can download the latest timetable by clicking here

My Review

I don’t take Business & Management as one of my subjects, but a friend does, and the following review is provided by them:

“The book is helpful for revision and trying to revise for exams, it was good for my mocks! All the information is clearly placed on the page and easy to understand (as long as you’ve got some background!!). This book is good to go along with the Business Course Companion, which I also quite like. Overall, I like the book and think it will be very useful for revision for the exams.”

The book is available for £15.32 and $49.05 in the USA.

My Review

This is the book I’ve been waiting for since I discovered Biology for the IB Diploma by C.J Clegg last year. As per my review for the Biology book from the same publisher, I expect this book to be equally amazing. I’ve pre-ordered it and am counting down the days to its release!

The Biology book is everything one could want or need for their studies, and I expect this book to be exactly the same, if not better. I’ll provide a full review when I receive the book and have used it for a couple of weeks to get a good feel for it.

The book is available for a 25% discounted price of £24.38 in the UK, and for those of you not living in the UK, you can order for the same price.

My Review

I am also waiting for this book to be delivered! I will write up my review it when it gets here. Take a look at the Sample Chapters and you’ll see why I’ve ordered it! I really like the Heinemann IB Books! Feel free to submit a review yourself if you have the book!

I’ve had this book for a few months now and feel it’s time to submit a review for it! It’s a very good book, everything is very clearly laid out and easy to take in. There are diagrams, tables and also little boxes throughout the book that prompt thought in the areas of Theory of Knowledge (Very useful for the ToK essay and ToK presentation).

Overall, I think that Heinemann / Pearson have done it again, producing a very high quality book that will be sure to help you through your IB Chemistry studies!

You can download these two sample chapters from the book, provided by Heinemann.
Chaper One
Chaper Four

Unfortunately, Heinemann / Pearson have taken the sample chapters down off of their website, I will update the above links should they re publish the sample chapters.

Contents of Book
Introduction
1. Quantitative chemistry
2. Atomic structure
3. Periodicity
4. Bonding
5. Energetics
6. Kinetics
7. Equilibrium
8. Acids and bases
9. Oxidation and reduction
10. Organic chemistry
11. Measurement and data processing
12. (Option A) Modern analytical chemistry
13. (Option B) Human bio-chemistry
14. (Option C) Chemistry in industry and technology
15. (Option D) Medicines and drugs
16. (Option E) Environmental chemistry
17. (Option F) Food chemistry
18. (Option G) Further organic chemistry
Theory of Knowledge
Advice on Internal Assessment
Advice on the Extended Essay
Answers
Index

This book is available from around £22.50 or $40.

The series of ‘Heinemann Baccalaureate’ books has changed names to ‘Pearsons Baccalaureate’. This post has been updated accordingly.

It’s 2am and I’ve just finished changing the template of IB Damned and adding some new features that will be working behind the scenes to improving loading times and make things smoother.

The new template is up and running (finally). I hope you prefer it to our old template and that it will make your time on this site more enjoyable.

If you have any comments on the new layout or some ideas for further site updates, please leave a comment!

Watch this space for some more Textbooks coming soon, and also look out for some Textbooks that aren’t specifically for the IB Diploma, but instead Textbooks that you may be interested in.

Keep studying hard!

My Review

For the Mathematical aspect of the International Baccalaureate it is required for you to have a Graphical Display Calculator (GDC).

The calculator that has been recommended to me by many people, both teachers and past students, is the Texas Instruments TI84 calculator. The calculator does look incredibly confusing to use, but don’t worry too much as it isn’t too difficult with a little practice! The good thing about this calculator is that many of the Mathematics textbooks I have seen use the TI-84 as an example, so you may find that your textbook recommends this calculator and also shows you how to use it! But fear not, there are books available to teach you the exact functions of your TI-84 calculator, and it may be likely that this is the choice of calculator within your school, so your teacher will show you all the cool things it does! It can do almost everything you could ever want it to (for the exam) plot parabola graphs of quadratic equations and solve arithmetic sequences, to name a few.

The calculator is available at a discounted price of £74 within the UK and $120 in the USA. The calculator usually retails for around £80-£90, with the best price being around the £75 mark.

My Review

I am not in possesion of this book. If you do own this book (or buy this book in the future) please submit a review! 100% of reviews will be accepted, both positive, negative and neutral. Reviews with bad language and spelling errors will be edited accordingly.

The Extended Essay and ToK components are at the core of the International Baccalaureate, along with CAS. The Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essay components of the course can count towards up to three ‘bonus points’ towards your final IB Diploma grade!

The book is available at £16 in the UK and $31 in the USA and elsewhere in the world.

My Review

This book is due to be released within the next couple of weeks.

This book has been a long time coming! I own the standard level version on this book and it is fantastic! If this higher level book is anything like the standard level book (I’m very sure of this) then it’s going to be a very useful book with lots of great diagrams and a fantastic breakdown of content!

This book is available for £37.99 and is currently available to preorder until the release in the first week of September 2009 when it will be available for immediate dispatch. This maybe be a little more expensive than the other books, but it is sure to be a good investment into securing a very good grade for IB Chemistry, Higher.

My Review

This book is due to be released soon.

This book is available for £18.99 and is currently available to preorder until November 2009 when it will be available for immediate dispatch.

Just want to give everybody a quick update.

More books will be added to the site over the next few weeks, I am aiming to have almost every IB textbooks on the site for the end of July and the start of August, so that students starting the IB from August and September will have a resource to help them find textbooks.

Hope everybody is enjoying their summer holidays if you’re having them (sorry UK IB1 students!) and hope you’re getting ready for another year of study