<p>AP kids whine
but IB kids don’t even have time to have senioritis, because what makes IB different is that each and every IB course is designed to challenge every student in every way. for example, English A1 Higher is thought as one of the hardest courses; it is. 25% of the final grade is from a commentary of a never-before-seen extract in the exam. 25% comes from an exam essay on two of the texts out of the four exam texts you study. The question, and which texts are relevant, are unknown. 10% comes from your World Literature essay 1, and 10% comes from World Literature essay 2, both of which require absolute and total focus and thinking while reading translated texts. Explaining the feeling you get in English from translated texts, and making it relevant despite the losses in translations requires absolute skill. 15% comes from an oral commentary where you are given a random extract, from one of the four oral commentary texts you study, and you are given 20 minutes to prepare for a 15-minute speech that is recorded and then sent to IBO. it is one of the most nerve-wreaking moments of any IB higher english student. Finally, the last 15% comes from the IOP, which is the recorded Internal Oral Presentation, where you present an oral presentation on theme/s explored in one or more of the four IOP texts. IB A1 Higher English students read 15 texts, write one 2000 essay and present one project per week, and that is just one of my seven classes. the courses are intricately made to challenge the speakers to write, and the writers to speak, and to compare it to the standadized and generalized AP is to be too simplistic.</p>
<p>to the OP, IB is completely pointless busywork and gives you no advantage in college admissions (i hope you figured this out back in 2006 hahahaha). :D</p>
<p>IB is just messed up. You have to do extra work, but this fact (as far as I can tell) is overlooked by colleges. I don’t feel this is an injustice however, as the “extra work” seems rather pointless. I like the premise, but it’s just not implemented effectively.</p>
<p>If you’re school’s IB program is new, AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE.</p>
<p>what if your an international student and at the current school it doesn’t have any ap classes? would you take the IB or the normal High School Certificate?</p>