IB vs AP Classes

[nosirrah123]

Hello! Recently my moms been pressuring me to get into IB classes (tempting me with a 1.5k computer), otherwise next year I'll probably be in all AB classes. I'm no perfect student by any means, I'm very unorganized and I procrastinate a lot, and I'm always trying to improve, but I don't think that throwing myself at something I don't think I can handle will instantly cure me of these things. I find CP very easy, (less than an hour of homework usually, some days even none) and my honors class I took last year in middle school wasn't that much harder, but I'm worried that I'll be locked down all day with hours and hours of homework if I join IB. Am I overestimating how hard IB classes are? because I'm thinking 6 hours of homework minimum every night, and no time for anything else. No matter what the reward is, I don't want my life to devolve to sleep 3 hours, go to school, come home, then do homework until 2 AM. If I do go IB, I'd do 1 for the first semester, and 2 for the second (I'm on block schedule). Will IB absolutely destroy my free time? Or am I just being paranoid?

 

Edit: I'm not worried about AP, because thats something I know I can handle if I put my mind to it, I'm wondering if IB is difficult. 

 

Edit #2: I'm going into 10th grade, not colledge

[KingLuvely]

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[wilsoneku]

I guess it depends where you're from and where you want to go to college. I don't know much about IB since my school didn't offer it, but there shouldn't be that much of a difference in terms of difficulty and workload. I pretty much depends on the teacher. 
IB is more accepted internationally? (not completely sure about that) and AP's are more of a thing within the states (again, take that with a grain of salt) 

 

[KingLuvely]

I'm going to assume you mean AP. I'm in AP (because my school doesn't have IB classes). Some of them are easier than others. If you focus and don't overload yourself with too many ten it's manageable. I'm taking 3 this year and English is pretty easy, History is mostly memorization, and Computer Science is very fun if you keep up on studying. The homework for English is mostly just essays, history is time consuming (like start at 19:00 and finish at midnight sometimes, on normal days), and CompSci is just you know it or you don't. I'd recommend taking 1-3 in a year, no more unless you fully want to be rid of your social life. 

[helping]

it's not really that hard, you're either overdramatizing it have been hearing stories from slacker regular plebs. 

The only ones that might actually give you trouble are AP chem, physics, and calc. Everything else is pretty easy.

 

I was taking all AP (except math) and Latin homework probably took more time than all of them combined after level 3. One or two classes at a time is cake. It begins getting challenging when you go into higher foreign languages (which take A LOT of time) and 4+ AP/IB courses. 

 

I took AP because IB wasn't offered at our school, but AP is recognized in any US college, so that's good enough for me?

 

I still kept a social life taking up more than 4, when you take enough AP/IB classes you end up taking them with the same people, and it's not uncommon for you to basically travel in packs since the class overlaps are pretty large. Your social life (mine, anyway) went to being work-centric and isolated to a certain group of people. 

[Victorious Secret]

I took the full IB program, its worth it if you give a damn.

 

I get 2 courses worth of credit in my regular degree and in Med applications and grad programs all that fun stuff because I did very well on 2 of my IB exams. 

 

IB doesn't destroy your free time. It teaches you how to maximize it. 

 

Believe me, once you get to college/university forget about the concept of free time. Post-secondary is a full time + overtime job. IB, IMHO, gave me some better work ethic to manage all of that. 

[nosirrah123]

I'm going to assume you mean AP. I'm in AP (because my school doesn't have IB classes). Some of them are easier than others. If you focus and don't overload yourself with too many ten it's manageable. I'm taking 3 this year and English is pretty easy, History is mostly memorization, and Computer Science is very fun if you keep up on studying. The homework for English is mostly just essays, history is time consuming (like start at 19:00 and finish at midnight sometimes, on normal days), and CompSci is just you know it or you don't. I'd recommend taking 1-3 in a year, no more unless you fully want to be rid of your social life. 

Well my problem isn't that AP is too hard, because I've had it before and it isn't too hard I'm talking about IB, which is yet another step above AP.

[steffen_anywhere]

Hello! Recently my moms been pressuring me to get into IB classes (tempting me with a 1.5k computer), otherwise next year I'll probably be in all AB classes. I'm no perfect student by any means, I'm very unorganized and I procrastinate a lot, and I'm always trying to improve, but I don't think that throwing myself at something I don't think I can handle will instantly cure me of these things. I find CP very easy, (less than an hour of homework usually, some days even none) and my honors class I took last year in middle school wasn't that much harder, but I'm worried that I'll be locked down all day with hours and hours of homework if I join IB. Am I overestimating how hard IB classes are? because I'm thinking 6 hours of homework minimum every night, and no time for anything else. No matter what the reward is, I don't want my life to devolve to sleep 3 hours, go to school, come home, then do homework until 2 AM. If I do go IB, I'd do 1 for the first semester, and 2 for the second (I'm on block schedule). Will IB absolutely destroy my free time? Or am I just being paranoid?

Edit: I'm not worried about AP, because thats something I know I can handle if I put my mind to it, I'm wondering if IB is difficult.

Edit #2: I'm going into 10th grade, not colledge

I'm doing the IB Diploma (I'm in 11th grade right now). I don't quite understand, would you only take some IB classes or all like me?

Anyhow, I do not, by any means, have 6 hours of homework per night. Whoever said that wanted to scare you. I currently have a GPA of 3.7 or so out of 4. This is with subjects like Chem and Physics HL. So you can achieve high grades, without doing this kind of commitment.

By the way, I procrastinate too, it is normal.

EDIT: It is true, tho that sometimes, you have a lot to do. I have spent several evenings/nights coming home from school around 5PM and then staying up until 2AM doing homework.