SteffenCarter Posted October 22, 2018 Report Share Posted October 22, 2018 Can anyone tell me about current course of IB? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomenclature Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 Could you maybe specify about a certain aspect please? IB is taught in many different schools and your experience will be very different depending where you go, what courses you pick, etc. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteffenCarter Posted October 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 6 hours ago, Nomenclature said: Could you maybe specify about a certain aspect please? IB is taught in many different schools and your experience will be very different depending where you go, what courses you pick, etc. Well i want to know about the IB curriculum in Singapore. What is the current syllabus for secondary level and other necessary things which one must know before this programme. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomenclature Posted October 23, 2018 Report Share Posted October 23, 2018 The curriculum (that doesn't necessarily mean the same experience in class) is pretty standard, so I'll try to answer this. In IB you take six courses, three of which are HL and three of which are SL (you can do four and two but this is the standard option). You will have IA's in all your classes (projects graded by your teachers) and externals (exams or work graded by graders whom you do not know). In addition, you'll do CAS and write an Extended Essay. The workload is significant for high school, depending of course on how much you want to focus on academics. If you're shooting for a 40 you'll spend more time than a student aiming for a 24. You can read about specific course curriculum on the IBO's website. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteffenCarter Posted October 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2018 14 hours ago, Nomenclature said: The curriculum (that doesn't necessarily mean the same experience in class) is pretty standard, so I'll try to answer this. In IB you take six courses, three of which are HL and three of which are SL (you can do four and two but this is the standard option). You will have IA's in all your classes (projects graded by your teachers) and externals (exams or work graded by graders whom you do not know). In addition, you'll do CAS and write an Extended Essay. The workload is significant for high school, depending of course on how much you want to focus on academics. If you're shooting for a 40 you'll spend more time than a student aiming for a 24. You can read about specific course curriculum on the IBO's website. Thanks for sharing the information. I am not yet clear with if this is the apart from secondary level curriculum, how a child manage to study this course. Isn't a child feel double pressure of studying normal syllabus as well IB syllabus at the same time? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlaveOfIB Posted November 2, 2018 Report Share Posted November 2, 2018 On 10/24/2018 at 2:57 AM, SteffenCarter said: Thanks for sharing the information. I am not yet clear with if this is the apart from secondary level curriculum, how a child manage to study this course. Isn't a child feel double pressure of studying normal syllabus as well IB syllabus at the same time? I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to ask, but I'll give it my best shot. Depending on the school, your freshman (9th) and sophomore (10th) year you will take non-IB courses, or Pre-IB courses. Actual IB courses will start in your junior year (11th grade), and the "normal syllabus" will be discontinued. From the start of junior year, you will take IB courses, some of which you decide if you want to take HL or SL that year. An example of this is math. Students are required to decide to take SL or HL math their junior year. However, this is not the case for most subjects. For other subjects, you simply just take IB ____ and in your senior year, you decide which 3 subjects you want as your HL and which three you want as SL. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteffenCarter Posted November 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2018 4 hours ago, SlaveOfIB said: I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to ask, but I'll give it my best shot. Depending on the school, your freshman (9th) and sophomore (10th) year you will take non-IB courses, or Pre-IB courses. Actual IB courses will start in your junior year (11th grade), and the "normal syllabus" will be discontinued. From the start of junior year, you will take IB courses, some of which you decide if you want to take HL or SL that year. An example of this is math. Students are required to decide to take SL or HL math their junior year. However, this is not the case for most subjects. For other subjects, you simply just take IB ____ and in your senior year, you decide which 3 subjects you want as your HL and which three you want as SL. Yes exactly i wanted to ask whether the normal syllabus will be discounted or not. Now my doubts are clear. Thank you so much for the help. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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