IB Programs

1of42
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:53:24 +0000

overseas: I have yet to see a college that gives any credit for IB SL courses. Could you point me out to the one you’re saying that does?

2collegewego: Yes, but they also only looked at SL Bio, which is significantly less rigorous than HL Bio.

Also, it’s worth noting that the whole 1-year 2-year thing is actually not true. HL courses aren’t required to be 2 years long, and SL courses aren’t required to be 1 year long. They have instructional time requirements, as I recall, but I also believe that one can fulfill those in some ways through private tutoring. For example, I know that certain boarding students at my school, fluent in other languages than English, would do their IB Language A1 in their native language, with a 1-on-1 (or a small group) teacher brought in, and then sit the exams. Some even sat the exams in their junior year.