During the lead up to the May 1998 IB exams, several things came to my attention. The first, and perhaps most important was that I actually knew very little of the actual subject matter on which the actual 'affect the rest of my life' exams were based. The second thing was more mundane, being that if I didn't actually get on and learn some of it, bad marks would follow, and with them, the inevitable pain of lectures from parents. The third thing, probably the most interesting to you, was the realisation that the incentive of avoiding lectures from parents was not nearly sufficient to force me into studying. The result, however, of all of these combined, was that, instead of actually studying, I decided to sit around a make web pages about all the stuff I would have been studying if I could have been bothered. (Matthew Sheppard)

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That was my original introduction, and it still seems to hold up quite well. The notes have brought me acclaim from some, insults from others and hopefully some good karma. I'd also like to thank the other contributors who have helped, and still are helping to improve the quality of the notes, especially those I haven't got around to adding to the page. (Matt Sheppard)

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Update news (16/12/2005) This site has now all more or less moved to a new IB Notes wiki site. For the time being everything will be staying here, but I will eventually put some banners up on each page redirecting people to the new site, and then just make the redirect automatic. For now, please update any links or bookmarks you might have and check out the new site. (15/01/2005) Added in a textbooks section. Currently it has mostly my recommendations, and some of those are without ever having seen the books in question. Please jump on the mailing list and suggest any textbooks which you have found useful. Also did a quick check through all the links to other sites and removed the broken ones. (14/01/2005) A long time between updates (although I have quietly added a few notes since the last update). I have been throwing a little bit of time at this site behind the scenes lately, and hopefully there will be some significant improvements in the not too distant future. In the meantime, all there is to show for it are google adds and some amazon associate links, the profits from which will be going towards getting this site it's own domain and a web host supporting some sort of scripting at the back-end. (10/08/2003) Added a bunch of new chem notes by Matthew Smith. I'll be turning them from word docs to PDFs in the near future. The News Archives

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