<p>The reason i ask you is because as a junior I'm taking six Ib classes</p>
<p>Spanish literature hl
psychology hl
math studies sl
theory of knowledge
english literature hl
biology 2 sl</p>
<p>but yet these classes are wieghted the same as an AP class and we have a ton of more stuff to do than ap classes, such as Internal assessment,Extended Essay, CAS,Prescribed Essay, orals, world lit paper, and other requirements which AP students don't have to deal with....</p>
<p>So should ib classes be worth something like 2.5, instead of the 2 that they're worth now?</p>
<p>Not really. None of my IB classes are weighted and sl IB classes are easy. There are people in my school who got c's and d's in o level equivalent exams in math and get A's in studies. Its not worth the extra grade. Psychology maybe and english lit yea. The bottom line is you should get extra credit for HL subjects if anything.</p>
<p>No, in most schools they are considered the same level of difficulty and thus are weighted the same as APs. Your school sounds like an exception to the rule.
And you already get double weights...what are you complaining about? We only get a raise of 25% for AP and 10% for Honors.</p>
<p>My school is sort of a quasi-ib school, our school has 3700 students, with 600 being ib.</p>
<p>generally the top20% is dominated by Ib students so an increase in the weight of ib classes wouldn't really make a difference, i just think ib students should get something....because i know friends who are taking regular classes, do NO work, have a 4.0 unwieghted gpa. While most of us ib kids are doing a million things and our unweighted gpa don't really reflect the amount of work we do.</p>
<p>IB classes and AP classes in my school are both weighted the exact same too. I don't see a reason for IB students to get more credit per AP class because both equal the same amount in credit units in college. </p>
<p>Now if IB classes were worth more courses in college...then that would be a whole other story, but it's not.</p>
<p>And everyone knows that IB is just extra busywork anyways.</p>
<p>And also why does it make a difference what your unweighted grade is like. It's the weighted one that shows how hard your courseload is, so it does get reflected somewhere.</p>
<p>Yea I know the feeling. My school is the only one with IB with the top students in the country for the most part. We do accelerated work and have way harder classes and dont get recognized for it.My classes are
Physics HL
Math HL
COmputer Science HL
English HL
Geography SL
Spanish SL</p>
<p>This may not be the case at your schools, but at public schools with IB programs in my area, the IB kids have developed a lot of tactics to ensure they have the highest ranks. My favorite is IB Gym, a gym class for which they receive weighted credit. There's also IB band, IB speech, and other IB electives that give the IB kids a boost over others who take APs. It's a little absurd, IMO</p>
<p>Gym is one fourth credit, but it is also true that there is an Honors Band that is weighted to a 4.5 or 4 for no reason. I wonder if IB Gym = varsity sport? That is what it should be...</p>
<p>Are math studies, SL and HL weighted the same? I'm taking Hl and heard some of my friends in studies say that they were so happy that they got the same weightage as I did with less work. I mean, if this is true it sucks balls. I'm in Hl becuase I love math, but I'd also like to get credit for it, I'd like thge school to acknowledge that I have to think much more than a studies student. And besides, I want a higher GPA ;)</p>
<p>In my school, where an exceedingly small percentage of us are Diploma Candidates, it is clear that IB classes should be weighted more than AP. However, it doesn't really matter anyway. Our classes are generally part AP and part IB, but the IB students are given much more work. In my economics class, for instance, I was too busy working on my IA to think about the work that the teacher was still giving to all of the others in the class (who were AP). Students who do more work should be given a more weighted grade, ipso facto. The ludicrious arguement that just because some colleges grant the same credit for both AP and IB (they really shouldn't) doesn't mean that high schools should weight them equally.</p>
<p>HL I think carries more weight, but I am not too sure since I know little about the IB program besides that it is accepted by many schools around the world.</p>
<p>I don't think IB classes are underweighted...at least at my school anyways. Over half of our IB classes are combined with AP classes to make a combo class, so it's essentially the same thing. Plus, a lot of the extra work in IB classes is diploma requirements rather than actual classroom requirements (though teachers often to give a classroom grade for them). IB kids get an advantage because every IB class they take gets the weighted grade and they have to take a full schedule of IB classes, whereas there is not enough AP's at my school to cover every subject, so IB kids always have more weighted classes (There are several kids at school with 5.0+ GPA's, which is impossible for AP kids to get). Not only that but the IB diploma looks much better than a bunch of AP's...so yeah, IB kids get enough extra weight in terms of competitiveness by doing the program that I don't think they need a higher weighted GPA too.</p>
<p>At my school, IB HL/SL, AP, Honors are all weighted the same. I must admit, it ticks me off. AP and honors are not on the same level as IB at my school. I am just stating the truth for my particular school.</p>
<p>Still, the AP kids have a higher GPA, but the AP kids at my school freak out over a 10 page paper for Honors English...that's probably just my school maybe. </p>
<p>We don't have the opportunity for joint IB/AP classes. They are all separate. However, IB kids can take the AP exam for a corresponding subject, but you will never see an AP kid taking the corresponding IB exam. Of course, this is probably due to credit more than anything. That's another thing I don't understand...why don't some colleges accept SL?</p>
<p>The AP kids on CC seem much more focused and motivated than some of the AP kids at my school. Then again, it's CC...</p>
<p>^Those AP kids who freak out about a 10pg essay should try and take my spanish A1 HL class. Its freakin hard,and I'm a native speaker. We constantly have essay that range from 8-14pgs single spaced about authors' styles etc.</p>
<p>IB SL shouldn't be weighted the same as AP or HL becuase the work is much simpler. In my school the load for HL students is much greater than SL also</p>