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The IB Diploma is six subjects at Higher or Standard Level plus the core (Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay and CAS), and the parts students most often need help with are the ones schools support least: the Extended Essay, the Internal Assessments and TOK.
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A 4,000-word Extended Essay, a TOK essay and exhibition, and an Internal Assessment in most subjects, all with their own deadlines and all running alongside six courses. Students rarely fail the IB on subject content; they lose points to the core running late.
Up to three points come from the EE and TOK together, which is often the difference between an offer and a near miss.
Higher Level covers extra content and is examined more demandingly, so "the same subject at SL" is not a lighter version of the same syllabus. A tutor needs to know which one a student is sitting before planning anything.
Maths in particular splits into Analysis & Approaches and Applications & Interpretation, each at both levels, which makes four genuinely different courses under one name.
Most IAs are marked against criteria the student can read in advance, and most lost marks are for structure and methodology rather than for the work itself. An hour spent on the criteria before starting is worth more than a weekend of writing afterwards.
Yes, mostly the research question, the structure and the criteria, which is where most of the marks are decided. The writing has to be the student’s own.
Both Analysis & Approaches and Applications & Interpretation, at Higher and Standard Level. They are different courses, so tutors specify which they teach.
Yes, for both the essay and the exhibition. TOK rewards a specific kind of argument that most students meet nowhere else in their schooling.
UK universities make IB offers directly, usually as a total with specified HL grades, for example 38 points with 776 at HL. There is no single conversion table.
Yes, on the same footing, with the same admissions tests and interviews. Offers are expressed in IB points.
From £30 an hour, set by each tutor. The first 15 minutes is free.
We are selective about who teaches here: we look for tutors at top universities, everybody is interviewed by us, and nobody is listed without a criminal record check on file. Lessons run in the browser with live video and a shared whiteboard.Rates start at £30 an hour, the first 15 minutes with any tutor is free, and every student gets cookie's study software at no extra cost.