IB History or Econ HL?

pink997
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:39:07 +0000

Economics IMO is much more interesting than history and IB economics is a WAYY easier 7 than history. History by far is the hardest group 3 subject to get a 7 in (only 2% of students got a 7 in May 2014), so do seriously take that into consideration! With that being said, I recommend going with the subject you’re more interested in as it’ll be easier for you to do all the work, IAs etc for that class. Finding the motivation to do the work for a class you’re not interested in is very difficult, been there, done that!

I also recommend you take into consideration the teacher that is teaching each course - is one teacher known to be much better than the other? Is one known to have a good track record with final scores? If one teacher is significantly better than the other and if his/her class(es) get higher average scores than the other teacher’s class(es) then I recommend you take that class. Don’t underestimate the importance of a good teacher to do well in an IB class.

BTW I only take HL economics and am basing my opinions on HL history on what I’ve heard from friends and others.