Compared to freshman-level college life?

saif235
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 21:14:40 +0000

I’ve found that junior and senior years of IB DP are comparable in workload to freshman year in college - that was my experience anyways. However the classes themselves are very different. College classes move at essentially double the pace of an IB course and is generally more in depth. For example (and this is a bad example) the two year IB Physics HL class is covered in one year in college. But instead of spending time on the “fun” options. college physics goes more in depth into the fundamentals. (Note: I say this is a bad example because IB Physics is algebra based whereas college physics is calcuus based, but since that was the example you gave I went with it).
Additionally every semester in college you will have finals which are just as stressful as (if not more stressful than) your IB exams.