In one week the IB history exams begin

May 4, 2016

To steal from Lenin, ‘What is to be done?’  The burning questions of IB history may include how to get the elusive 7 or how to pass if you haven’t opened your textbook in the past year.  Although these are very different scenarios they both involve...

What is a predicted grade?

March 11, 2016

At this time of year you may hear your teachers mention predicted grades.  This may make you nervous and you may worry about what this is, but it shouldn’t worry you at all. The IB asks your teacher to give a best guess of what your final IB result will be. ...

Why revise History with OSC?

February 29, 2016

If you’re an IB student currently working towards final IB exams you’re probably asking yourself: Why do I need to revise History with OSC? An IB History expert, who has taught on OSC’s Exam Revision Courses for two decades, explains why: The IB...

For students: The HL option and Paper 3

January 20, 2016

Happy New Year to all of you!  The weather has definitely changed course for most of you, and while most of my posts have been written with a blue sky and warm temperatures, the mountains of New Mexico have had near-record amounts of snow and the temperatures have...

What is new and different with the World History Topics and Paper 2?

October 28, 2015

The main content change is the merger of Routes 1 and 2.  The HL option will still need to be declared, but the new syllabus has 12 topics – 4 that come from the previous 20th century world history topics, 4 from the previous Medieval History topics and 4 from...

New Prescribed Subjects in IB History

September 21, 2015

When you are talking to students in second year IB they may tell you about certain content areas that you have not heard of.  Shortened to Medieval, Peacemaking or Communism in Crisis, these are three examples of the material that is on their syllabus, and you may...