1. In order to be ahead of your school, we cover the topics early in advance. This leaves us with adequate time to prepare and revise for the upcoming IB biology examination. Your tutor aims to finish the whole IB curriculum by the beginning of the second year.
2. Analyzing past exam papers. With early completion of the curriculum, we can start working on past papers at a much earlier stage. An interesting fact about IB biology is that it’s very common to see the same question repeatedly appear in exam papers.
Hence, the earlier we start practicing, the more papers we’re able to go through and in turn, the more familiarized we’ll become with the papers and the closer we’ll get to securing a “7” for your IB biology exam.
Before we start preparation for you IB biology exam, we strive to use this class to first gain an in-depth understanding of your current performance level. Depending on the student’s form, the tutor may conduct an assessment. This initial tutorial is designed to ensure that we first cover the concepts that you’re struggling with, or perhaps feel the most uncomfortable about. Following this, we’ll then plan a tailored timeline suited to your progress before moving onto the upcoming topics in the following session.
Each IB biology tutorial lasts around 2 hours, whereby all of our students will be individually followed up. We’ll first cover each topic with an explanation of core concepts and principles. Following this, your tutor will then select a few tricky questions from past IB exam papers to go through, in order to ensure our students are able to both understand and familiarize themselves with the right approach and format of each chapter.
The amount of content in IB biology is indeed, quite a lot. This is why you need to start revising early! Studying the marking scheme proves more valuable than studying the textbook.
We aim to complete the whole IB biology curriculum by the end of the Y12 summer. This leaves both the tutor and the student with adequate time for paper drilling and question analysis in order to become a straight “7” student.
Having taught IB biology for more than 8 years, we know the common misconceptions among students, the tricky concepts across specific chapters, the best approach to illustrate and explain it, the topics that are always asked in the exam, the usual approach and format, and the required skillset and techniques needed to score full marks from the paper; whether that means using the right keyword or formula - we know what’s needed to achieve both top grades and an unparalleled performance in public examinations.
I had meeting with John’s school Bio teacher, he was pleased with John’s progress. Thanks for your teaching! Hope John can get keep it up!
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