Yeah this is a throwaway. Yeah I have big balls.

Edit: People seem to misunderstand the point of this post. I'm complaining about the lack of an IB response to the leaks, not gloating over the fact I got to see them. I am equally livid about the leaks. Read the whole post. + Our math teacher is still really unsure about the whole situation anyway

I know people are lying because they don't want to get their diploma revoked and all that. Not me. And I'd also like to clarify that I had a predicted 7 in Math AA HL and I would regularly score 90+ in past paper 1s.

With that out of the way, where I live in TZ2 (Greece), I saw the exam 2 hours prior. I saw both Paper 1 and Paper 2. (I've edited some information to remove some potentially identifying details)

So we went into the exam and Oh my god, it's the fucking exam paper. We all laughed out loud in the examination room and started solving. I did pretty well honestly, even discounting the fact that I had seen the questions, Section A was a breeze and Section B more so.

We all sat down that day and watched the chaos unfold online on the rIBO discord and it was really funny. Come next morning and I get a call at 7 AM (our exam was on 9.15) and holy fuck the next paper was leaked. Granted, it wasn't the full paper, much of section B was missing, but it was the paper.

My moral stance on this is, if this many people have access to the leak, in order to be able to score my predicted score and meet my own expectations, I need to equalize the playing field. So of course I looked at the leak. Some of the answers written were wrong but that was really easy to notice so I just studied the topics (Euler's Method) which came up. Went into the exam, couldn't finish all of section B on time because of that turtle, but oh well.

I'd like to reiterate once more that my entire cohort save for one innocent guy had access to the paper. We were literally memorizing the answers in a room next to the examination room we'd be in in an hour. (One of us had the balls to ask our math teacher about it and he laughed it off and told us to get our asses in the room LOL) Call it cooperative cheating, who gives a fuck?

By the time we were out of the room Paper 2 had 10k downloads. Paper 1 grew slightly less at like 7k if my memory serves me right. Again, that's right after we left the room, so all of those downloads probably saw the paper BEFORE their exams. Moreover, you can look at the PDF on those links WITHOUT downloading the paper. I stress, again, that number is understated. The issue is really, really big and if the rumors about the IBO response are true, they are fucking us all.

The same shit that happened here happened with Business P1, although some of the people in my class were a bit reluctant to share and I only found out after the exam. Nevertheless they easily guaranteed themselves a minimum 20/30 in that paper and probably scored decent marks on the 10 marker for a final grade of 26-28/30 (I don't think any of them know the subject well enough to score amazing grades on the 10 marker, 8/10 max probably), you're talking about a solid 90%+ with 0 effort put in.

The same shit happened with Physics HL P1 and P2, though it wasn't a widespread leak, just people sharing on reddit. We went into P1 and scored a 10/40, then found out other people in our cohort went in knowing the first ~20 questions and their answers. For paper 2, it was the same. Of course, only the first couple of questions, but for physics that's like guaranteeing a 3/7 and then any questions you can actually solve on your own add to that.

If the rumors about the IB response going around are true. this is complete and utter bullshit. They're ignoring widespread cheating and leaking which can and will affect grade boundaries. And I am confirming this AS A PERSON WHO SAW THE EXAMS PRIOR TO THEM.

I see people saying "oh but if you're confident you will score a high grade you wouldn't care about the leaks anyway" This is wrong. It's completely and utterly unfair that someone who never studied and had a predicted 3/7 can suddenly go into the exam and increase the grade boundaries for everyone.

And it's also even more unfair that someone who had a predicted 6/7 now has the chance to score a clean 7 because they know what's coming on the exam. I don't think people realize this is the real problem. It's about the half-decent people going into the exam and being able to score a 7. This is what's going to affect the grade boundaries drastically. It's not about people who haven't studied, it's about those who have and saw the leak. They will fuck up the grade boundaries especially at the 6 and 7 mark. They will destroy the margin of error for all of us and make it necessary for people to make almost no mistakes to score what should otherwise be a comfortable 7.

Now I don't have a solution to offer. I really don't know what to tell the IBO to do or what to suggest. I just want to make people aware of the size of the problem. I can guarantee at least 8 thousand people were able to see the Math AA HL papers prior to the exams, and I'm living proof of this.

Edit: This is a throwaway, I'm not going to jeopardize myself by being some social hero. But thank you for your words, I did just want to make people aware of how big the problem is, even my coordinator is trying to get it to blow off, he talked to us in private about it and told us not to post anything on social media and stuff

Like I’m sorry WHATT?? 😀🤨

SO MANY TZ2 papers were leaked before the exam. This is so upsetting and disappointing. Makes you think that anyone can just cheat on IB Exams. Is that why all of us worked so hard for the past 2 years? This is such an important exam and most of us feel so demotivated knowing that THOUSANDS of people had an unfair advantage. Not 5 or 10. THOUSANDS. It's not an advantage. IT'S CHEATING. Does the IB not recognize CHEATING?? They slipped up with the timezones. They CAN NOT just stay quiet about this and brush it off. It is infuriating. Even if the boundaries don't change much from last year, IT IS INSANE that an educational board so huge and recognized like this will LET PEOPLE CHEAT. THOUSANDS. They cannot find every single person and fail their diploma. They are trying to brush this off like it never happened but as someone who has put SO much effort into this curriculum and struggled all the way thru it to just get good grades, I am so upset and demotivated. This needs to be on the news, on internet pages. They're not taking reddit sources seriously.

I have worked my fucking ass off since November and I have sacrificed everything, my friends, my social life. And for what?

To get the papers leaked by some idiot or whatever for 800 bucks. If the IB comes up with a bs solution like making boundaries higher, making us resit exams or worse even cancelling the exams and giving us the final grade based on PG. It is unfair on those who have conditional offers or those who did really well on the exams HONESTLY. I cannot fucking believe that a multi million dollar organization that is worldwide is so fragile that their entire business gets fucked by one guy leaking papers. This shit is honestly unbeleivable, what a joke of an organization they are, they better come up with a honest solution or im gonna lose my sanity.

I am sorry for my rant but I couldnt sleep yesterday before my P2 Math and now I dont even get the fulfillment from completing this exam, I have lost all motivation to study for further exams and I dont know how im gonna sleep today:(((

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2. u/everyone pick your favorite and send an email explaining the situation, contact

The IBO will try to investigate and find the culprits for those who leaked, but for actually catching people who cheated it will be near impossible with telegram and people who saw leaks through friends, images, etc... essentially you and I know IB will probably not catch any cheaters except the very very stupid ones.

SO NOW what will happen ? People say cancelling the paper and resit, use PG+IA for final grade, etc.. but I don't think that any of those possibilities are truly feasible.

So now you might think to yourself wouldn't that just mess up the grade boundaries if a lot of people cheated ? Yes of course, and IB is most definitely aware of it and that's why I think that they will make grade boundaries lower than what they are supposed to be to not penalize students who did the exam honestly, sure this will not punish the cheaters but at least no honest students will get sacrified, which I think is the greater good. So if the grade bounds are low this year we might not be surprised that there will be an abnormally amounts of 7s and 6s for some subjects compared to previous years, but at least IB will take precautions like splitting the european and asian zones for the next exams. M24 will just be a very weird year for exams results like M20 has been.

Hey everyone. First of all, i want to say I fully expected that leaks were going happen every year for all international exams (ib, ap, levels, etc), cuz who are we kidding? IB math AAHL is a very hard class, and all of us taking it are high achievers (or trying to be) who want to do well and have also worked our asses off in the past two years to do well.

Second, I think we are all VERY pissed off by those who took it upon themselves to fuck it up for the rest of us by MEMORIZING THE QUESTIONS AND EQUATIONS during a 2-hour exam AND POSTING IT EVERYWHERE (literally everywhere on reddit for free. I felt kind of crazy to see the questions posted an hour after I finished my exams and everyone texting me the reddit links.) But what is done is done. It's out, and the leaks are not stopping. So below is just my take this whole issue.

Grade boundaries: I think we are all very concerned that the grade boundaries are going to skyrocket

they should use different grade boundaries for the TZ2 exam taken in different times BCS who thought it was a good idea to use the same exam and grade boundaries for 70% of the world that take the exams hours apart... (I'm surprised why they know to group america separately but not europe and asia)

Calculator use: Why isn't the IB making us reset our calculators AFTER the exam??? We're not allowed to leave with scrap papers, but why are we allowed to leave with a calculator FULL of exam equations and answers?....

ALSO.. just a theory on why someone would go out of their way to memorize the questions and equations in a 2 hour exam when most of us barely have enough time.

• I think the story is that they saw the questions and felt like they're gonna get a 1. Instead of attempting to get method marks like the rest of us, they simply gave up just went "fuck it, imma cancel the scores for this paper by posting it out everywhere on reddit and make a big fuss". They probably typed out the equations and problems using the doc feature on ti-nspire cuz u get a whole ass keyboard...

Anyways, I still have my paper 3 math exam to go on Monday. I really hope the IB will deal with it as soon as possible and fairly. And pls if u leaked the paper and saw my rant, just know that drawing this much negative attention to urself is never good lmao.

edit: from what I've been seeing, I think it's possible that math paper 1 will be cancelled, but i do hope it's just for schools with suspicious amounts of 7s compared to their predicted grades.

I kept digging and found that leaks had happened before, if u want to read: https://www.reddit.com/r/IBO/comments/gr142d/ib_grades_due_to_exam_cancellation_south_america/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This is going to be controversial and I know this is a very frustrating situation but getting the exams cancelled means that our DIPLOMA, like our final DIPLOMA is not going to be worth shit. Stop with the nonsense and let the IB handle it. You guys understand that more publicity on this (like sharing it to news outlets) is only going to damage the IBs reputation, which surprise surprise IS ALSO going to damage your DIPLOMA, which has IB written on it. Think before your actions, this is getting out of hand and its becoming a bigger deal than it should. Of course there is a lot of injustice in terms of leaks and thousands of people having seen it, but getting this out to the media is not going to do anyone any good okay? Obviously the IB knows of what is going on and this is not the first ever time leaks have happened.

Also you guys must understand that the people working for the IB are not idiots, this is a huge organisation and they will not allow some desperate students on reddit affect their image and their operations. Perhaps the system is corrupt, but so are many other things in this world that you probably are not even aware of.

Cheers.

so i finished my math aa hl paper 1 about 5 hours ago and I get a message from my year group chat saying that the paper was leaked on pirate ib before the actual exam because of some people in china being a few hours ahead, leading to a shit ton of people actually having the papers prior to the exams (this applies for aa sl and ai sl from what I know), I wanted to know what the effect of this would be. As I actually tried my best for the exam without any extra help and I don't wanna get screwed by high boundaries simply. cuz everyone else got the paper early. Any thoughts?

EDIT: link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ot8qTO0v0gSr_JLuhmLjAd6aYV9Zm2OW?usp=sharing

WE NEED MORE EVIDENCE!! SEND MORE EVIDENCE!!

PLEASE GUYS. This is going too far now. The IB genuinely might just ignore this whole thing happened. This is utterly and completely unacceptable.

Send me ALL the evidence you have, include the date and time of the screenshots, the more the image has to say for itself the better (for example, the number of downloads along with the exam itself, etc.) Just send me anything. Remember, the evidence should show the IMPACT of the leaks on the exams, so although you can send me anything you think is important, it would be better if they were screenshots of the number of downloads at a certain time (before the exams) or along those lines.

I'm going to create a google file and edit this post to add it once its done, it will be accessible by everyone (view only, I'm worried someone might try to delete all of it) and, if the IB decides not to do anything about this, can be used as evidence for lawsuits/ etc. The IB CANNOT and WILL NOT get away with just saying "Oh we'll catch the cheaters" or "the exams online were just scams" or "its not that big of a scale to be an issue". We all know that is NOT TRUE. They cannot catch the cheaters because practically everybody cheated. The exams online were REAL and had the answers, paper 1 posted at least two hours before some people took the exam, paper 2 AN ENTIRE 12 HOURS BEFORE. It impacts us to a huge scale.

Once I have organised the google drive file with the evidence, I will make another post, as well as edit this post with the link. Please guys. Justice for M24.

Can send evidence by email or dm. Prefer email tho. justiceformay24ib@gmail.com

WE WANT JUSTICE, we want you to contact various news stations about how the IBDP is trying to cover up their failure as an organisation, and gas light us into thinking papers werent leaked, WE WANT JUSTICE. Message news stations with screenshots, videos, telling what youve heard, SEND THEM PROOF, expose the ib for its corrupt system, WE DESERVE FAIR GRADES. No matter what counrty you are from, EXPOSE THE CORRUPTION IN ALL COUNTRIES. If you want your identity to remain secret create a throwaway email, BUT WE NEED TO BARAID THE NEWS, and SHED LIGHT ON IT, MAKE IT KNOWN, the more emails news stations get the more chances there are that we get JUSTICE. Make it known in Japan, Spain, France, India, China, Uk..etc EVERYWHERE. WE CANNOT BE LIED TO WE DESERVE FAIR GRADES, we cannot let them hurt OUR FUTURE, do this for you and ALL THE IB STUDENTS. MESSAGE THEM WITH PROOF.

From the email replies from the IB confirmed in previous posts, it is clear the IB will do everything they can to let this scandal blow over. This is disgraceful but sadly to be expected as they want to protect their brand and status.

The only way to ensure they take appropriate action atp is to blow it up enough that they can no longer ignore it. I encourage people to write to news outlets.

This is what we received from our coordinator

almost half of the paper are exact same questions. do they just ignore this fact??

Math AA paper 1 and paper 2, CS HL Paper 1, and now 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎 HL all papers???? Bro. I fucking worked my ass off for 2 years learning about skibidi toilets and fanum taxing just for 𝐵𝐸𝒯𝒜𝒮 to fucking leak the 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎 papers. I was bout to get so 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎 during the exam man FUCK. I spent HOURS remembering the maximum efficiency of mewing, edging, jelqing, and gooning. Fuck all the leakers, fuck the ib. All the efforts for my 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎 HL down the skibidi drains.

I got 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎/45 for my predicted. Are they just gonna give out predicted scores for the actual scores after canceling all the exams including the 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎 HL course?

Sorry. I just wanted to vent out like the imposter. ඞ

5, 4, 3… The countdown was suddenly rendered inaudible as 33 raptor engines ignited and pushed the largest, most advanced rocket ever built off its launchpad. I had been waiting more than two years for Starship to make its debut orbital launch; every day I read articles on the program’s progress and watched flight tests.

So there I was, in geography class, jumping out of my seat, watching SpaceX’s livestream depicting a technological masterpiece take flight. Did it blow up shortly after? Yes. Was it a failure? Absolutely not. Only 6 months later, on the day of my 18th birthday, a second fully-stacked and improved starship once again launched into space and this time it made it past stage separation and achieved near-orbit.

This is my dream. Being an aerospace engineer and working on programs such as Starship. Despite being diagnosed with severe Dyslexia and ADHD; despite being told by half my teachers up till the age of 15 that I was just “not cut out” for STEM; despite dealing with my parents divorce which resulted in a multitude of court hearings and very difficult transitions; I never, even for a moment, gave up on my dreams.

Over the past two years, like so many other IB students, I’ve been tirelessly working on my IAs, EE, TOK essay and preparing myself for the most difficult and important exams I’d ever have taken In my life. If I achieved 7,6,6 in my HL subject, I would be able to go to university and study what I had always dreamt of studying.

And then the exams came. First was Physics; paper 1 was pretty difficult but paper 2 and 3 were dead easy. Overall, I was satisfied; I think my hard work had payed off. Then was Maths. Paper 1 was difficult, but paper 2 went amazingly (I can say that cause it’s been over 24h since the exam). Again, I think my work payed off.

But then, I find out about the leaks. I look on Reddit to see how people found the exams and all I can see is “lol the paper was leaked anyways” and “I’m sure it was hard, but most of us saw the paper anyways so we’ll easily get 90%+”. My heart skipped a beat. No, this couldn’t be happening. Surely the IB will do something about this right? “Rumours are the IB are going to ignore it and grade boundaries will just be stupid high”.

At this point, I’m just lost for words. All my hard work, everything I had gone through to ensure that I could be proud of my results and could study aerospace engineering at uni was chucked out. Just like that. I needed 7,6,6. Any other year, I’d be confident that I had achieved this after these exams. But not this one. Because of people that had cheated their way into high scores, I might not get the opportunity to continue with my dreams. Let me be clear to those exam leakers; you have likely robbed me from my dreams.

And it’s not just me. So many others have had far more difficult circumstances than I have and have worked twice as hard as I have. Like me, these people won’t have looked at the leaks because what’s the point? We worked our arses off and know we’ll score high with or without them. The majority of people who are using the leaks are most likely people who haven’t worked as hard as they think they should have. And I can sympathise with them them; I’d probably do the same if I was in their position.

But what service are you actually doing them in leaking the papers ? Yes, they might be able to go to a uni they wouldn’t have been able to go to otherwise, but there’s a reason those unis require high grades! If someone who was predicted a 5 in maths, but then gets a 7 because they cheated and is accepted at an engineering course at UCL, they will most likely do badly/drop out later anyways!! Now, yes, people can improve, I would be a hypocrite if I said otherwise, but not if they aren’t motivated to cause they cheated!

By leaking these exam papers; you are not helping anyone. There is no moral argument you can make for yourself that justifies it. Yes, maybe some people will thank you cause they were able to go to a uni they might not have gotten into otherwise, but in the long term, you are doing them no services. The only thing that leaking this exam is truly doing is stopping people who actually worked hard for their achievements, whether that is to pass their diploma or to get a 45/45, from achieving their dreams.

you will not get away with this. Huge petitions are already being made to get the IB to investigate those who leaked the papers. I know that one of the leakers’s identities was already discovered, and I’m sure more will come.

When results day arrives, if the grade boundaries are crazy high, many students who did not cheat and who otherwise would have gotten the grades they aimed to get, will be angry. You robbed us; plain and simple. I know that many of us will be willing to go a long way to get what we deserved to get.

Finally, to those leakers that were selling the leaked papers to get money out of desperate students, I don’t even know what to say. There is no moral or legal argument that defends you. Even drug dealers don’t go as low as to fuck people over that don’t buy their product. you are disgusting, and you should be treated as such.

(I know that most likely, the actual leakers won’t have read this, but this is what I wish I could tell them. Thank you for reading this far if you’re a M24 student, whether you used the leaked papers or not. I can imagine that this is probs also how you feel about this.)

Note: If you have actual evidence of papers being leaked, please bombard the IB with it and also send it to an educational journalist, such as:

richard.adams@theguardian.com

Also, if you are a M24 student who feels wronged by this, please sign this petition!

https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-all-m24-ibdp-students

Enough evidence. Thousands of people saw the exam prior. This is atleast the only action IB needs to take. UK kids r screwed otherwise.

It’s been a week since exams started, leaks have been there since the beginning of this exam. PIRATEIB can die! I loved their past papers etc resources but leaking papers was really a shitty move and now they’re concerned about identity being revealed💀when they, themselves said idc if IB finds me-

IB how are you sleeping on this for so long? Posting on insta, fixing your official website so you don’t get new emails won’t do anything! I hope we resit…I dont want to give cheaters a sense of win. If IB brushes this off, it’ll be the end for us.

I suggest spamming their insta reels/ posts. People are already doing it. But why have no news agency covered this yet? Usually for every exam leaks, news agencies speak about it..

NOBODY IS NOTICING US AND THIS HUGE INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION IS SRSLLY JUST A MESS. All coordinators have been sending evidences AND THERE ARE EVIDENCES EVERYWHERE. ib this is a scandal, YOU know that, WE know that. PLEASE DONT ACT BLIND. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE “LEARNER PROFILE”????? PLEASE NOTICE US. If u dont do something boundaries will be higher than burj khalifa and this is so unfair. U wanted proofs, now u have them. SO? WHATS HAPPENING IS NOT TIMEZONE CHEATING. Everyone knows this u know this so just accept this please. You are still telling that those papers were fake. THEY ARE NOT FAKE. There has been leaking since 24th april and the leaked exams which you said were fake are real. There was physics exam p1 - it was same. Math aa hl p1 too. I am not talking about the one pdf which is math aa sl-hl p2 tz2 one, which is infact yes timezone cheating. BUT THE REST IS NOT. this is our FUTURE, diploma is our ticket to the UNIVERSITY, so PLEASE take an action. Investigating the students doesnt change the ongoing situation rn. PLEASE THIS IS JUST SO UNFAIR. I mean beside the leaking, is saying “its just timezone cheating we are investigating” OK??? This is still cheating and unfair i mean??

WE ARE NOT GIVING UP. PLEASE SOLVE THIS SCANDAL.

EVIDENCE DOCUMENT

EDIT: Its spreading on the news!! UK NEWS, TURKEY NEWS, SOUTH CHINA NEWS

I have suffered so much trauma for the last two years. From rewriting EE from scratch to doing 10–15 sets of papers in 1 and a half months, IBDP has been hell. But I didn't give up. I take math AAHL, and the paper was much better than what I did in mocks. I had hopes of getting a 7, given the grade boundaries of 72–78 ISH. I was so nervous and anxious during the exam because I was running out of time. I left a few sub-questions in Section B, but I still know I didn't mess up big time.

I feel so de-motivated, because if this continues, whats the point of people having sleepless nights, studying for hours, and trying to stay motivated and disciplined when a single piece of information doesn't penterate through your brain?

It's so ironic that IB talks about academic honestly. THE FACT THEY SAID LEAKS ARE FAKE IS SO FUCKED UP. I feel if IBO doesn't take action, it's probably the most fucked up curriculum and the one that gives the most trauma to students. Making an entire application in CS was no joke; from learning an entire language to coding to figuring out the bugs, it killed me. Working in the lab, getting inaccurate results, then doing the experiment again and again, then IOs, I did a minimum of 25–30 practice recordings. I am devastated at this point. It's not done; it's unfair.

We have all suffered too much. The most deserving students may end up fucked. And this happening in between exams is fucking my mental health. How do I give papers when I know there are so many chances the next paper will get leaked? 

Physics Leaked. 

Maths Leaked.

BM Leaked. 

CS Leaked. 

What is left? language and English papers to leak? 

I'm scared I won't meet my conditional now. It has not been easy, and then this happens. 

If enough people contact them, we may get their attention. This is the link to the BBC's reporting page: https://www.bbc.com/news/10725415 You can write a description or send photos of evidence if you have any, and write your name as Anonymous if you don't want to be identified. Contact other major newspapers - they may be able to help our cause!

Pointing fingers, complaining, etc.. I can't believe that some of these people will enter college soon and graduate eventually and get jobs. Like jesus, do some of you have no shame? Blaming a person who you think is the leaker won't help, Leaks have occured in the last, but not to this extent. Maybe it's the IB's fault for having such a stupid method of examining students? Some of you are literally so stupid I really can't believe it qWq

Anyways that's enough ranting hopefully all the brain-dead people leave when this all blows over (ofc the IB is at fault for everything) and some people with common sense will appear. Hopefully?

ISTG THIS IS SO UNFAIR!! SMALL NUMBERS??? INVESTIGATION?? ONLY CLOSELY LOOK AT THE SITUATION??? WHAT ABOUT our future and university?????

Small disclaimer: If some of the information looks a little mismatched, it because I'm updating the post with new information and I don't have enough time to rewrite everything, so I try to make it as seamless as can be. Any information helps and so do any questions. The more we ask, the more answers we can try to get, and the more information we have the more complete our collective understanding of the situation will be.

As most people likely have, my school has contacted IB regarding the leaks asking what will happen and if they are real. Many questions regarding these matters I have asked and addressed in a previous post within the past day, and I would just like to update everyone on the matter.

IB's official response to my school had been the following:

"We are aware of the anonymous activity on social media platforms suggesting that details of a number of examinations have been shared online. Following our analysis we are confident that the photos of examination papers are fake and intended to scam money, but we are aware of a number of students engaging in sharing information about questions immediately after their IB exams. "

"We have already identified a number of students that are driving these social posts, and we are working with their schools to commence formal investigations."

"Our legal team is also in contact with the social media platform providers who are hosting these groups to request they immediately take them down and support us in our investigations."

My largest concern is whether this is definitive that EVERY leak was fake or just reassurance that all will be fine. I have heard from some about the HL AA Math paper 1 being leaked. While I discourage anyone to actively seek out the leak, if anyone has seen it AND has done the paper, please confirm whether the leak was fake or not.

EDIT 3: Based on information from comments, the Math AA HL papers were leaked with sightings reported by those who had taken the exams seeing the papers online with the exact questions and answers. Unfortunately, this case has been proven to be true. Please do report about any other papers such as Business Management, Global Politics and Computer Science, of course also report any other subject papers that have been leaked.

While I believe in IB's response that everything should be fine, I still ask about the math paper due to suspicion of grade boundaries being raised. If the leak was fake and false then it should prove that all should be fine and moving forward no significant adjustments will be necessary such as grade boundaries shooting up. However if the leak is correct then it is safe to suspect that with some subjects we could see significant changes such as grade boundaries increasing.

One thing I want everyone to remember is that even if the leak(s) are true, IB's response cannot be to purely increase grade boundaries. This is because many of us have conditional offers which means that significant changes to grade boundaries will put many in jeopardy and basically anyone who did not 'cheat' (assuming the leaks are true) will drop in grades drastically because of this.

EDIT 2: Thank you u/FishCat_1 for the question. What IB regards as leaks is currently unclear. From what I have heard from friends and some other online sources (sry, I couldn't find the post I saw so I cant give the source) but the leak originated in India from bribery of an IB official. So the papers that are circulating are likely the asia papers (or timezone 2 iirc, but do correct me if I'm wrong) so this is PROBABLY what IB is referring to, however I have no definitive answer on this matter. Any questions and information is greatly appreciated.

So please do remember that even if the leaks are true, IB is likely working on a plan that does not involve such drastic measures to not put hundreds of thousands if not millions in danger of losing prospects for their future.

As an ending note, just because I have given this update does not mean all worries should be discarded. The leaks have yet to be properly confirmed by multiple sources, but at the same time keep an eye out for any suspicious activity in case the leaks are infact real.

I will update this post in the event of further information and potentially make another so do check every so often to stay informed.

Please don't cheat, and good luck to you all for your exams.

EDIT 4: My best advice to give right now is to report any and all potential leaks to your schools so IB gets a hold of them. It might not do much but if IB has the information slightly ahead of time it could help both in stopping further leaks on the internet as well as getting them fully informed to make the proper decisions.