| uphillbattle, that's what i was wondering too. normally taking a full 2-yr ib program is time consuming. you're given quizzes, mock tests from time to time to check progress and for instructers to predict your grades before you have the final comprehensive tests in may. that's why students are only given predicted grades unofficially and school sends predicted grades direct to colleges together with other stuffs.
some american system schools overseas have gpa/ap/honors program but also give students an ib individual courses as an option, but not the full program, which means students get individual grade (5-6-7 or whatever) for each course taken but no tok, cas, comprehensive paper/research project and so on. that is usually the case but it could be different elsewhere that i'm not aware of. |