How to cite StudyDeck

Using StudyDeck in an essay, project or personal statement? Here is how to reference it properly, plus the sources and credits behind the notes.

Cite the whole site

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Citing one specific note rather than the whole site? Keep the same format, but swap in the note's title and its own web address. For example, the page title shown in your browser tab (such as Surds - Standard Maths) and the link from your address bar.

Sources & credits

StudyDeck is written and maintained by Fayek Jawad Haider, an MYP student. The explanations are original: each note is written from scratch to make a single idea click, rather than copied from any one textbook.

The content is structured around the IB Middle Years Programme framework, specifically the subject-group aims, the topic progression used across international schools, and the four MYP assessment criteria (A to D) that each note points back to. Where facts, formulae and worked methods appear, they follow the standard secondary-level references for each subject: established results in mathematics, the agreed models and values used in physics and chemistry, and the conventional terminology used in biology and in English language and literature analysis.

Because the notes are written and checked by one student, mistakes are possible. If you spot something wrong or want a topic added, please send a correction. That feedback is exactly what keeps the notes accurate.

A note on the IB

StudyDeck is an independent study project. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization. "IB", "MYP" and "Middle Years Programme" are trademarks of the International Baccalaureate Organization, used here only to describe the programme the notes are written for. Individual schools may teach some topics in a different year than shown here.