French B or Ab Initio?

[Guest TheMagical7]

I've heard of French B SL and French B HL, yet, there is no option to choose between the two for my Yr 11 courses, just French B. (I'm in Yr 10 now.)

The main thing I want to know about however is what grades I could expect to get in French B and Spanish Ab Initio and how much effort I have to put in for them. I'm generally one of the better French students in the class and I get about 90-95% consistently so should I go on with French B SL? I hate Orals though these days.

I've heard a lot about Spanish Ab Initio being far easier but what grades would I expect and how much effort does it require in Yr11/12? Is it at a Yr 9/10 French standard of learning or even faster? Spanish Ab Initio is only available as an after-school class session and not as part of school-hours. This means we only get 2-3 hours or something like that from the Language of Schools. 

If you say you get easy 6-7s in Spanish, please identify your background and previous knowledge of Spanish .__.

Thanks for all the help...

[poweroverwhelming]

I think although French B SL touches upon more advanced concepts, any Ab Initio course moves at a very fast pace and you have to adapt to a different syntax very quickly. I'd go with French B SL if I were you.

[Recycle Bin]

I went with French B SL. Ab Spanish might sound easy but as poweroverwhelming said you won't have much time to adapt to it and it is difficult. You are a topper in French so I advise you to take French B.

[TheTroll73]

Don't do spanish in this case

Just say "me no hablo españo" (I don't speak Spanish)

take French B SL since ab initio sounds too easy for you 

[aTeddy]

I can only speak from experience as an Ab Initio student, though I'd wholly recommend doing French B SL as you seriously won't regret it. 
So far, from my experience with French Ab, I've found the pace to be highly manageable, even slow at times. I presume this would also apply to Spanish.
Though there is certainly a lot of value you'll get from B SL, namely, not having to adapt to a new language and achieving some real fluency with the language. 

Anyway, both choices should be fine.