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"IB students have brought a great energy, determination and diversity to our campuses and they have adapted extremely well to University studies and life, no doubt in part thanks to the nature and academic rigour of the IB." -  Sir Rick Trainor Principal at Kings College London 

IB Diploma

All students must take 3 Higher Level courses of 240 hours tuition - these are the subjects that they show most interest in and are likely to utilise and pursue at university. Students must also take 3 Standard Level course of 150 hours tuition.

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  • Language A (Language and Literature): English SL/HL, English and Performance SL/HL, Self Taught Mother Tongue / First Language SL

  • Language B (Language Acquisition) or another Language A: English B SL/HL, Malay HSL/HL, Mandarin SL, French SL, Spanish Ab Initio and SL

  • Individuals and Societies:  Business Management SL/HL, Economics SL/HL, Geography SL/HL, History SL/HL, Digital Society SL/HL, Psychology SL/HL

  • Experimental Sciences:  Biology SL/HL, Chemistry SL/HL, Physics SL/HL, Environmental Systems and Societies SL, Sports Exercise and Health Science SL/HL, Deisgn Technology SL/HK

  • Mathematics - Applications and Interpretations SL, Analysis and Approaches SL/HL

  • Arts:  Theatre SL/HL, Visual Arts SL/HL, Music SL/HL (or one subject from groups 1-4)

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Students will also take the Theory of Knowledge course, the Extended Essay and the Creativity, Activity Service programme.

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Grades 1-7

Each subject whether Standard Level of Higher Level is graded from 1 to 7. This enables for students to achieve a highest score of 42 points from the subjects.

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Students then achieve what are strangely called Bonus points from the Extended Essay and Theory of Knowledge (ToK) assessments. The Extended Essay and ToK are marked from A to E, and then the matrix to the right is used to calculate the number of Bonus points received. It is important to realise a grade E in either will result in the student failing the full IB Diploma programme.

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Students must also complete to the ethos of the Creativity, Activity and Service programme although this is not assessed beyond a completed or not completed. If not completed again a student will fail the full IB Diploma.

 

Total score is out of 45 points.

Examinations

Internal Assessments

In May of the second year of the IB Diploma Programme, students will undertake IB Diploma examinations based on two years worth of teaching materials. Due to the degree of objectivity and reliability provided by the standard examination environment, externally marked examinations form the greatest share of assessment for each subject. 

Please note however that some subjects have larger percentages than others, and so this may be a reason to think or choose certain subjects over others. 

Visual Arts, Theatre and Music do not have any external examinations for instance. Design Technology has the largest percentage of Internal Assessment within the Science group.

The IB DP curriculum requires that students complete a major “project” in each IB Diploma subject they undertake enabling them to apply the knowledge and skills they are learning in the class to the assessment task. Such projects are formally called Internal Assessments (IA) because they are assessed “internally” by the subject teachers. To ensure consistency, IA projects are also moderated by IB examiners. The moderation process is an important part of maintaining consistency, fairness, high standards, and accountability in the IB Diploma Programme.

Some assessment tasks are conducted and overseen by teachers without the restrictions of examination conditions, but are then marked externally by examiners. Examples include Written tasks for Language A and Language B Acquisition, Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essays.

A failing conditions on points is simply 23 points of below for a student. 

However as can be seen opposite there are a number of other failing conditions for the full IB Diploma. The one that can happen more frequently and be a surprise to students is when students gain 11 points or less in there 3 Higher level subjects. So students must be careful in choosing Higher Level subjects they are going to flourish well in over the two years of the course.

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