DUE TO THE COVID-19 outbreak, end-of-year International Baccalaureate assessments have been canceled. But IB students can still expect to receive final grades. This year, in what the institution has called “a truly unprecedented situation,” the IB will rely on an algorithm to partially determine students’ final scores. However, if students disagree with their results, there is something they …
Hong Kong’s biggest international school group has joined thousands of students worldwide in demanding that the International Baccalaureate explain poorer-than-expected grades based on schoolwork, after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of written examinations. The English Schools Foundation (ESF) confirmed on Friday that some of its seven secondary schools had asked the Swiss-based organisation that runs the …
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ANAHITA NAGPAL fears her plans to start training this fall to be a doctor have been derailed by a statistical model. Nagpal, who lives in Göttingen, Germany, had been offered a premed place and scholarship at NYU. Her acceptance was dependent on her results in the International Baccalaureate diploma, a two-year high school program recognized …
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國際文憑大學預科課程（IBDP）昨日放榜，各學校陸續宣布成績，今年受到疫情影響，IB取消考試，改以校內成績及預測成績評分。英基學校協會今日公布，屬校今年誕生12位考獲45分的狀元，佔全港狀元人數一半 ，另有24位學生考獲44分為「榜眼」；而英基學生IB成員平均分為35.7分，比本港考生平均分低約0.6分，但仍高於全球考生平均分6分。 https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/494953/ib%E6%94%BE%E6%A6%9C-%E8%8B%B1%E5%9F%BA%E9%9F%93%E8%A3%94%E5%A5%B3%E7%8B%80%E5%85%83%E9%86%AB%E7%94%9F%E5%A4%A2%E5%9B%A0%E6%96%B0%E5%86%A0%E8%82%BA%E7%82%8E%E7%96%AB%E6%83%85%E5%8B%95%E6%90%96-%E6%9C%80%E7%B5%82%E7%95%99%E6%B8%AF%E8%AE%80%E9%86%AB
The International Baccalaureate (IB) program is highly respected. It is known for rigorous courses during high school. Students take an exam to receive their final grades. Nearly 175,000 students around the world took exams this year, 89,000 of them in the U.S., most of them at special high schools. The students — in the U.S. …
The government is considering delaying the 2021 summer exams in England in order to allow for additional teaching time to make up for lessons lost to school closures during the pandemic. The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, told MPs that the government would be consulting with the exams regulator, Ofqual, about moving exams back to give pupils more …
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round the world, countries are debating what to do about schools during a pandemic. In many places, they\’ve been shut. In some they\’ve reopened. Hong Kong offers a cautionary tale of how difficult these decisions can be. Schoolchildren were sent home at the end of January as the first wave of the outbreak began, originating …
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The number of Hong Kong students bagging perfect scores in the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams dropped by nearly a third to 23 this year, with grading based on schoolwork after written tests were cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was down from last year’s 34, despite the number of local candidates increasing slightly from 2,284 …
A prestigious international school in Hong Kong has taken legal action in a bid to remove a “discriminatory” article in its regulations that requires all elected board directors to be fluent German speakers, a rule that has existed for more than 15 years. Another extensive hearing would take place this week, following one in May, …
LAKEVILLE — Hotchkiss School sophomore Arhan Chhabra knows education is a tool everyone should have. After a trip to India in 2019, this technology-inspired 15-year-old created an online platform with a global reach to help give education to students with potential, but no resources. And after the coronavirus pandemic hit his home country of Hong …