Author Topic: What Does IB Mean? (High School Question) (Read 5297 times)

international baccalaureate

BTW: do NOT take these classes with intentions of getting the medallion. I knew some guys that worked SUPER hard, and lost their social lives.. for what? It's essentially nothing.

brickybob · July 31, 2012, 07:19:14 PM

Quote from: Ben Grapevine on July 31, 2012, 07:17:04 PM

international baccalaureate

BTW: do NOT take these classes with intentions of getting the medallion. I knew some guys that worked SUPER hard, and lost their social lives.. for what? It's essentially nothing.

I've heard countless stories of people getting a programming job (or IT in general) without even going to college.

Not saying that college doesn't mean anything.

Ipquarx · July 31, 2012, 07:19:48 PM

Quote from: SpreadsPlague on July 31, 2012, 07:15:44 PM

they're the same concept.

Except IB is much harder than AP.

brickybob · July 31, 2012, 07:22:33 PM

Thank you for answering my last question, but now I have another one.

The school has a summer reading project.

My choices are;

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The Truth about Forever (Dessen)
When Cricket’s Cry (Martin)
All Creatures Great and Small ( Herriot )
Breathing Underwater (Flinn)
Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
The Alchemist (Coelho)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury)
Nineteen Minutes (Picoult)
Seabiscuit (Hillenbrand)
A Child Called It (Pelzer)
Emma (Austin)
Great Expectations (richardens)
Catching Fire (Collins)
As Simple as Snow (Galloway)

But Wikipedia has no article on 90% of them. I'm would prefer the one with the least pages because I'm not exactly sure when school starts but I know it's soon.

SpreadsPlague · July 31, 2012, 07:29:57 PM

Quote from: brickybob on July 31, 2012, 07:22:33 PM

Thank you for answering my last question, but now I have another one.

The school has a summer reading project.

My choices are;But Wikipedia has no article on 90% of them. I'm would prefer the one with the least pages because I'm not exactly sure when school starts but I know it's soon.

ok well catching fire is part of the hunger games trilogy and apparently the books are pretty good so maybe go with that one

Sami2ss · July 31, 2012, 07:32:17 PM

maybe bradbury.
he wrote fahrenheit 451.

Quote from: SpreadsPlague on July 31, 2012, 07:29:57 PM

ok well catching fire is part of the hunger games trilogy and apparently the books are pretty good so maybe go with that one

i wouldn't recommend any books in a series, as that will be pretty stupid to start reading a book that's in the middle of some series.

Jake White · July 31, 2012, 07:33:18 PM

Quote from: Ipquarx on July 31, 2012, 07:19:48 PM

Except IB is much harder than AP.

Depends on the course, Some IB courses are more intensive than some AP courses and vice versa. It's a credit thing, though. IB course credits are valid internationally, get it? AP courses I'm pretty sure are only valid in America and some international schools with lots of American students