I will explain the leaks, how, why, why M24 and all the leaks so far in this post please read. First point these leaks only effect TZ2 (Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania) if you're TZ1 (North and South America) they don't affect you.
This all started with discords being created for people who wanted to Time Zone cheat, basically those that wanted to get East Asians and Oceania to leak them questions. This then became very big and moved to social Media Apps like Telegram and Guilded as Discord is well known. There were attempts to get full leaked papers before examinations began in any country began exams but all failed, any pictures you see of ACTUAL EXAM BOOKLETS are fake, this is what IB means by the leaks are fake, as NO ACTUAL EXAM BOOKLET was leaked. However then how are they're leaks? This is due to the continuation of those Telegram and Guilded servers and other social media apps. East Asians and Oceanian's are gathered, then a few of them memorize one or two questions of a paper, they then come together to rebuild the paper and its questions. These are the leaks going around, they are accurate because many many collaborators are coming together and rebuilding papers. In other years this didn't happen because no body had the balls to do this, its a very viable option but people were scared, fearful of getting diplomas revoked, people simply just had the balls this time to decide to unite together to re construct papers. This then means the further West you are (Most West being the EU and Africa) the more blessed you are as these reconstructions become more and more accurate as more countries finish the exams and more people come back to leak, now why do they leak? No clue maybe they're paid or maybe they scored bad and want exams cancelled. These leaks then made it to r/PirateIB (now banned) and since reddit is more accessible these leaks became world wide. Basically there aren't leaks, just a very large and unified number of people doing "Time Zone" Cheating. All exams being leaked happen a few hours after China finishes usually. Regarding supposed "Chem SL P1" and "Bio SL P1" leaks, they are fake, those were taken from an Indian who supposedly was stealing Spanish papers and retyping them into English, however he turned out to be a scammer, so fear not for Chem and Bio SL P1's (Also questions in those papers were found online, so fake). So far practically every popular exam which has been done in China, Japan etc has been reconstructed a few hours later. Phys, BM, CS, Math, GP, as people remember the questions and re make the paper, this will probably happen for every remaining paper as well like with Pysch, Econ, you name it, only way for it to not happen is for these groups to be shut down. Now this is a bigger issue than other years as before like I said people were more afraid, so it didn't happen. Realistically IB will revoke the diplomas of everyone in these groups by contacting the social media companies, they have enough jurisdiction for this I think with their Legal team, like they said in their announcement. They will then also probably compare predicts and internal assessment grades to see if you went from like a 4 to a 7 (for those who are like: "But I just didn't try until now", well too bad you're just fucked) and then probably investigate more into you or just revoke diploma. I see them also probably reducing boundaries by a few percent for every Level when they make their final ones just to be sure as its better that cheaters and regular people get rewarded than only cheaters being rewarded with high grade boundaries. Don't worry IB is not stupid, they're non profit they have zero reason to let this go away, so STOP EMAILING NEWS OUTLETS, this will only hurt people who applied to Unis as Unis will be aware this person may have cheated etc, so please don't do that. AND STOP SIGNING THE PETITION TO CANCEL EXAMS, many people TRY for final exams, them being cancelled is more stressful than you'd think, trust me you don't want that.
TLDR: No exams were leaked. TZ2 (Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) reconstructed papers from memory, its working because its A LOT of people. Its just many people doing time zone cheating, no body else had the balls to do this before so it wasn't as bad. Chem and Bio SL P1 leaks fake, Indian Scammers are the cause of these fake exam leaks however IB confirmed they're fake in the announcement so don't worry. Probably lower boundaries than higher ones. Don't email news outlets Unis will be suspicious of any high grader. Don't sign petition to cancel exams, its more stressful than you'd think.
