<p>(This has probably been asked before, but I didn't want to gravedig for an answer.)</p>
<p>Why do IB exams get credits that are more useless?</p>
<p>My concern here is Biology. A 7 on IB Biology (SL/HL) only gets you out of BSC2010C (Bio 1) and 2 other lower-level Bio classes (that most majors don't take).</p>
<p>A 5 on AP Bio gets you out of BSC2010C AND BSC2011C (Bio 2).</p>
<p>7s on IBs occur much less frequently than 5s on APs. I'm not saying that IB exams are necessarily harder, but both exams should at least be treated equally in terms of credit.</p>
<p>It might depend on the depth on which the exam covers the topic in Bio II. It doesn’t matter if you get a 7 on the IB exam if it doesn’t cover an of the Bio II topics well enough (Biodiversity, anatomy, physiology, ecology and evolution). However, the AP exam covers literally every topic taught in Bio I and in Bio II, hence why a five will get you out of both. </p>
<p>The IB exam might cover these topics. I don’t know, but it’s up to UCF to decide what gives credit. Either way, colleges tend to be more accepting of AP scores than IB.</p>
<p>IB Bio HL covers all of that. They should differentiate the credits… SL and HL are on two different spectra.</p>