A common question that students often ask: "The IB Physics syllabus recently changed and there are only a handful of past papers based on the new content. Should I use questions from earlier exams to study?" The answer is YES, but you need to know which ones are still...

"What should I study if I only have a few days until finals and feel like I still need to revise everything?"  While there is no single, correct answer to this question, a great way to get the most out of your time close to exams is to focus your efforts on Paper 1B,...

Continuing my thoughts from the previous blog post, I put together a list of twelve definition-style questions that have come up on IB Physics exams over the past years.  This idea came out from a chat with a student whom I tutor, because while he loves calculations,...

State.  Describe.  Discuss.  Explain.  Show.  Suggest. It is not always easy to earn full marks on questions that start with one of these command terms, so I'd like to share with you a step-by-step process that helped many of my students quickly improve on such...