Between the teachers and students, there is a love hate relationship for IB tests. As the first IB starts Friday, the 24th, so do student’s study days. Students are allowed one study day for three or less IB classes, and two study days for four or more IB classes. This is different from previous years where students were allowed one study day per IB class.

Any students who want to have the option to come in either early or late the day of their IB tests, depending on whether it is in the morning or afternoon. Students can take these study days anytime they want, and everyone does it different days. This makes teachers angry because in a 20 student class, some days will be 5 students and others 15, they never know what to expect while they are trying to wrap up new content during the last quarter of school. This also stacks up makeup work for the students who took study days to catch up on what they missed. It stacks up fast especially with actual test days counting as an entire day missed if the student takes a late or early day with it.

According to a recent poll conducted on Twitter, in which over 80 students voted on. It brought to light then less than 20% of students actually use their study days to study while over 50% take study days to have another day off. The other 30% say that they do a little bit of both.

After 3 quarters teaching the same students, teachers know the students who are and aren’t going to study on the study days they take. Students such as Tim Grey argue that being a 4th quarter senior, classes don’t do anything anyways. He says that all 4th quarter is about is studying for all the different SOL’s, IB tests, and finals. Teachers, on the other hand, want their students to succeed in 4th quarter tests and therefore want their students to come to class so that they can succeed.