<p>my bro received a C and a D in honors chemistry last year (he’s mostly an A student), basically due to laziness in that one subject as well as personal issues. at his school, you technically need a B in the class or higher to get recommended to do IB Bio (which is a 2 year course, lasting junior and senior year), but he was able to get a waiver (alongside several other students) to go forward and take IB bio this year anyway, one of the reasons being that they are distinct subjects (whereas in math for example you absolutely wouldn’t be able to fail algebra 2 and go onto precalculus). they pretty much just sat the students down and told them it wasn’t advisable but they could override it by filling out a form if they wanted to</p>
<p>the thing is, he (and the other students) need IB Bio to be able to continue with the full IB diploma, but is it a foolish decision? is it absolutely necessary to do well in chemistry to be able to be successful in biology? he’s actually always loved biology…
he doesn’t want to major in science or math in college or anything, but he really really wants to take the class and finish the full IB diploma</p>
<p>also, I wonder about another thing. even though the school seems to allow it, I wonder if it will be a problem with colleges in terms of him being allowed to go onto that class despite not passing a lower level class (though again, bio and chem aren’t necessarily sequential)</p>
<p>it’s strange, cos at this school I’ve even heard of them allowing students who received D’s in algebra 2 to go onto IB math studies (although they’re not allowed to go onto precalculus since they didn’t get at least a C). there seem to be so many exceptions</p>