Get the irony?Lolz...
1. IB = 2 years of consistent work, A levels = play for 1 year, study for 1 year.
2. Higher Level Science subjects in IB (equivalent of H2): lab reports on practicals due every week, on average a GOOD lab report will consist of about 25+ pages.
3. Higher Level English students not only read 15 books but should ideally be well-versed in various literary conventions (freud, post-colonial, post-modernist, dystopian etc). Every IB student has to do English Lit in the form of English A1.
4. The actually amount of content to 'mug' at the end of 2 years might be less as compared to A levels, but the amount of essays, lab reports, math papers, CAS reflections, required on a weekly if not daily basis is astronomical.
5. Yes, it isn't impossible, its all about time management, a quintessential skill for university level study.
6. They recently reduced the UCAS tariff points for the IB diploma; previously the UCAS points an IB diploma student would get with 43 out of 45 points was UNATTAINABLE for A level students. (722 tariff points from an IB score of 43 was equivalent to more than 6 As at A levels but they recently scaled it down to 720, achieving parity with the 720 points 6 As would give).


Got this from STOMP. Take note of the reading material please. I think I better start reading up. I'm so Kiasu....
Another STOMPER's pov of IB...
IB strives to provide students with a holistic education, focusing a lot of critical thinking and independent learning. Students are required to think out of the box, think quickly and spontaneously, it also develops the presentation and public speaking skills of students.The rigorous course of IB trains students to work consistently, as opposed to the A level course where the final examinations take a huge percentage in determining the overall grade. in IB, there are such forms of assessments called Internal Assessments (IAs). this could come in the forms such as a science laboratory practical report, or an oral commentary of a literary text, or an in depth analytical essay on an article regarding economics. IAs are evenly spread out throughout the 2 year course of IB and this demands a high level of consistency from students. such skills prepare IB students for the real working world, because as it trains students to produce good quality work over a long period of time. also, two key components of IB are the Theory Of Knowledge (TOK) and the Extended Essay (EE). the TOK component is a 1200-1600 word essay where students answer to a given question which requires students to think critically and site examples to support their argument. the questions posed to students demand a great deal of cohesiveness in order for the essay to address certain issues pertaining to the given question. an example of a TOK question would be "how can the different ways of knowing help us to distinguish between something that is true and something that is believed to be true?"the EE component, is by far one of the most demanding components of the IB curriculum. this requires students to come up with a research question with regards to an subject that they are offering. with that, students are then required to research, collect raw data, process the raw data and evaluate their findings. this is then presented in a report of about 4000 words. this is similar to the kind of reports that are to be done when studying in the universities. the IB course is about all these, and more. it would be difficult to list it all just by typing but i hope this changes your view that IB is a lot easier that A levels. to a certain extent, that is true. IB does not study as much content as the A level does, however IB does emphasize a lot on independency as a student and the ability to think, analyse and troubleshoot the problems posed to them.many universities abroad receive the IB diploma well is because students that emerge from the course are trained to speak eloquently, work consistently, think on their own feet and they have adequate exposure to project based problems.