DIPLOMA PROGRAMME GRADUATES TALK ABOUT “The IB Diploma Programme Helped Me Gain THEIR EXPERIENCES

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IB DIPLOMA PROGRAMME GRADUATES TALK ABOUT “The IB Diploma Programme helped me gain THEIR EXPERIENCES. acceptance into my first-choice university, was invaluable preparation for higher education, and “Since I got my diploma, I can see that the provided some college credits.” skills and knowledge I acquired have helped American School of Paris, France me in many different aspects of my further studies and my life. It has brought me very “In retrospect, I am extremely happy with my choice far and, looking back, all the hard work was to seek the IB diploma, and would make the same worth it.” decision again in a heartbeat.” Brent International School, The Philippines St Petersburg High School, USA “I hope to make a difference in the developing “The IB Diploma Programme played a world. I believe that it has to start at the fundamental role in my education. The capacity community level. Education and empowerment to think critically made me appreciate different are the way forward. I learned this on my IB realities and understand human behaviour. The Diploma Programme course.” IB Diploma Programme is a source of ethics, Waterford Kamhlaba, Swaziland values and knowledge, and teaches the student how to develop in the real world.” “What I found most interesting was the direct Newton College, Peru relationship between the topics we were covering in class and current events. Doing the IB Diploma “The IB Diploma Programme has certainly Programme economics course meant I was able provided good grounding for the rigours of to really understand the meaning of concepts college level academics.” that are often headline material, but that are just Mahindra United World College, India as often ignored or misunderstood.” Atlantic College, UK

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The IB Diploma Programme is a comprehensive THE BENEFITS OF THE IB DIPLOMA They have a strong sense of their own culture and • Creativity, action, service (CAS) – a minimum and challenging pre-university course that PROGRAMME identity, as well as the ability to communicate in of 150 hours of participation over the two years demands the best from both motivated students Universities recognize the outstanding qualities of two or more languages with people who have a in creative, physical and service activities in and teachers. This sophisticated two-year IB Diploma Programme students. Typically, different perspective of the world. the local community. The CAS requirement curriculum covers a wide range of academic diploma holders are ready to debate real-world allows students to gain real-life experience subjects and has stood the test of time for over issues from an international perspective and to BROAD SPECTRUM OF SUBJECTS beyond the classroom. half a million students in 119 countries since provide leadership and support in the local and 1968. IB Diploma Programme graduates are global community. They demonstrate a capacity IB Diploma Programme INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STANDARDS welcomed by the world's leading universities. for in-depth study while maintaining a broad students choose to study six The IB Diploma Programme is widely recognized perspective of the different subject areas. They are for its high academic standards. Assessment is able to ask challenging questions but also know subjects – one from each of varied and takes place over two years, with final how to research a topic and express their opinion. examinations in each subject. Students' work is the subject areas highlighted assessed by an international board of examiners, in the opposite diagram. who are themselves rigorously trained and monitored by the International Baccalaureate group 1 Organization (IBO). language A1 UNIQUE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES The IB Diploma Programme is about more than Subjects are scored on a 1-7 scale with a further the six subjects that students study. At its heart three points available for theory of knowledge and are three core requirements that are integral to the extended essay. Students who display good literature the curriculum and make the IB Diploma levels of performance across all six subjects and achieve a minimum of 24 points (out of a possible group 2 group 3 Programme unique. 45) are awarded the diploma. All others receive a second includes individuals language history and and societies • Theory of knowledge (TOK) – an internally certificate for each of the subjects completed. economics and externally assessed interdisciplinary extended essay component that explores the different concepts theory of knowledge found in the subject areas. of knowledge Because IB Diploma Programme students creativity, action, study six subjects simultaneously, TOK teachers can, for example, ask their students includes service biology and to compare a historian's approach to problem group 4 physics group 5 solving with that of a scientist or an artist. experimental mathematics and sciences computer science includes • Extended essay – an externally assessed, visual arts independent research assignment of 4,000 and music words in one of the six subject areas. This is one of the ways in which IB Diploma Programme students can specialize in a certain group 6 subject area and prepare for university studies. the arts