| People think IB takes up a lot more time because of all the extra "thing" you have to do as part of the program. This includes many things such as internal assessments, external assessments, orals, CAS hours, extended essay, group 4 projects, presentations, and some other junk I'm probably missing.
Internal assessments are pretty much going on consistently. If you don't have one in Chem, you'll have one in Bio or history. They are pretty easy (IB therefore I B.S.) but time consuming (~2000 words). Even tho you only send one out to the IB for each subject, you do many of them and pick your best.
External assessments are pretty much the same thing but get assessed in some other random country. There are 2 of these for English.
There are 2 orals in English. Another in TOK where you ask unanswerable questions, talk for 15 mins, and repeat the questions.
Extended essay is such a larger external assessment that you are suppose to spend more time on. Group 4 projects are science experiments that you present all dressed up.
So basically IB requires all these extra things. At first I thought it didn't seem like too much but it all adds up. These thing follow each other, one after another. So you are always working on one of these (currently history internal ...ugh). |