<p>I just wanted to throw this out there… I was an IB Diploma student and I took a couple classes first semester of college that were review. I went to class, but I never opened the text books and didn’t do any problems or any of the homework (because it was “for our benefit” aka not graded). Then I got a C, in both of them. Guess I learned my lesson, but I was bummed that I didn’t get the credits for the IB classes I deserved (as I could still help people with their first few weeks of organic chem homework 2nd semester), and I didn’t put any effort into taking them the “second” time, and the results were less than desirable. I still feel that I was extremely well prepared, as do other IB kids. The idea of huge papers due soon doesn’t worry us, because we wrote so many essays in high school. We feel college is easier because we have fine tuned the skills that are needed, like writing essays, and all the trivial work is gone, and in addition we are only in class half the time in college that we were in high school. So we have much more time.</p>
<p>In fact, I think it might work against me in that regard, because I cannot motivate myself to start papers until right before they are do, because I know that I can write it fairly quickly and do well on it.</p>