How many CAS hours does your school enforce?

[ameatypie]

Wow... 360 hours is pretty intense. Im pretty sure i could manage that over the 1.4 or so years i have to do it in, but it would be starting to be a bit of a stretch... luckily, our school only enforces 150, so i should be more than sweet

[kevinayP]

Hmm, in my school, you have to have a minimum of 40 hours of Creativity, a minimum of 40 hours of Action and a minimum of 40 hours of Service, but everything have to add up into a total of minimum of 150 hours of CAS. Eventually I did around 200 hours, and it wasn't that hard, to be honest. Just document your hobbies as CAS (if it counts). If I document all of my activity I can go well over 1,000 hours - but the amount of paperwork (reflection essays, log sheets, etc) is too much so I didn't document those. Most of my CAS hours are in Creativity because one of my activity is learning a new Language, which I do three times a week, 1.5 hours each. As long as you document what you did in the lessons (at least my school told me to fill in what I studied in every lesson in the CAS Log Sheet), you can get pretty much 468 hours of Creativity in the two years of doing IB just from learning a new language. Just enjoy your CAS activities. =]

[Amber]

150 i thought everyones was 150

[Summer Glau]

My school only makes us do 150 hours, 50 for each category. Why do some schools have a higher minimum requirement for CAS? Just curious...

Edited May 30, 2010 by fire.realm

[Jason08]

my school wants 150 CAS hours along with cultural activities, meaning going on trips around the world or joining multicultural clubs. Also, part of CAS we need to have an extended project that we have to dedicate 6 months of IB to... like wow my project is rehabilitating a torn apart school in the Philippines. So much time put into CAS, rather than studying...

[amwilliams8617]

150!

[Globe]

We do 150, 50 in each at my school.

[kingdomx]

Yea, our school follows IB's set 150hours, but we have no rule about 50 hours for C, A and S. And also, if we don't complete a total of 150hours, but satisfy the fact that we do two major committments for C, A and S, and have a major project, plus make sure they all satisfy each of the 8 learning outcomes twice, update our journals frequently, we can pass. but 150hours is easy to do, when you have to satisfy all those regulations. a major project would swallow like 100hours.

[Phatnat1991]

Our school makes use perform all of the CAS areas together, each idea has to incorporate creativity an activity and a service together! But i think it is 180 for us.

[Jackie]

At our school, it's technically 150hrs with 50 in each but I never really have a problem with the hours themselves. We have to be doing something for every quarter during the year and provide new evidence and reflection, even if we have met the hours and learning outcomes, which I find annoying. I guess it's to prevent people from procrastinating but for the few of us that actually stay on track and are up to date on all of our work, it really is just an unnecessary addition to our workload.

[Tsubaki]

I could have sworn I'd already responded to this, but I will anyway.

At our school, technically only 150 hours of actual CAS are enforced. The catch is, CAS can only be counted for 2 credits (one for Phys. Ed., one for Fine Arts) if only 150 hours are done; the requirements for provincial graduation are 2 Phys. Ed. credits and 2 Fine Arts credits. An additional 50 hours of Action, and an additional 50 hours of Creativity will give you the credits required to graduate. So, how it works is that there is an official requirement of 150 CAS hours, but a de facto requirement of 250 hours for students who don't take music and who want to graduate high school (IE, everyone).

[Chrissytd]

My school requires 150 hours. But, I have a question do the hours be divided evenly into each category or can all the hours go towards one category?

[JustAnotherAsian]

Our school doesnt do hours which is actually worse. We need to keep adding hours. It use to be 250 hours before this stupid no hours thing.

[Drake Glau]

My school no longer enforces hours as much as just meeting the outcomes, however our coordinator for cas begins to question how you met x outcomes if you have so few hours so basically they indirectly enforce around 140+ because anything lower starts to raise suspicion about how you had time to do the outcomes =/

[orangecyclone]

Only 150 here, 50 of which have to be a single project. the other 100 have to be evenly divided

[Abdominal Procrastinator]

Wait are you people talking as in per year, or per the two years? Because we have to do 300 hours in total, 70 C, 80 A, and 150 S.

[Romerojr]

I got it real easty, just 120 hours at min.

[wombat123]

My school has the 150 hours (50 in each category), but the coordinator says that we shouldn't focus on numbers, and just make sure that we have around that much and are balanced.

[timtamboy63]

We dont have hours. As long as we can show that we've completed the learning outcomes, we're good

[Cruzaficks]

150 for us here in Bali 50-50-50 with a 20hour cap unless he makes an exception. So we basically have 3 activities for each. I still need service