<p>I'm in the IB program, and I'm wondering if colleges are notified of the results of your IB exams after you commit.
In addition, on my IB spanish SL oral, there was a misunderstanding. Our teacher allowed us a notecard with 10 sentences on it, and as such I typed out 10 long sentences onto the notecard, which constituted all of my oral. My teacher after the oral said he had to collect it becuase he thought this was too much and IB may think there is discrepancy between my oral and my Q&A. I'm just worried that if IB moderates my oral they may find this as an incident of academic dishonestly, so I would like to know what severity this has and its effect on my college admissions. I would hate to have this misunderstanding effect my college admissions.Thank you.</p>
<p>I’m interested in any replies you get - I think we have to send the scores to the universities, but not sure.</p>
<p>Unless you don’t get your diploma, it probably won’t affect your admissions. If you’re accused of academic dishonesty, that can affect admissions.</p>
<p>Your teacher didn’t properly read the IB requirements. The notecard can have 10 words or short phrases, not sentences.</p>
<p>Ok I was unclear on that…what are the chances IB moderates my oral? Would this considered a serious enough offensive to constitute notifying colleges of academic dishonestly or revoke admission?</p>
<p>It would depend on why IB moderated it and what decision they made.</p>
<p>If they moderate it because it’s one of the ones that comes up for moderation of the teacher’s grading, and they don’t say anything relating to academic dishonesty, then it’s not a problem. That’s just normal moderation.</p>
<p>If, on the other hand, they accuse you of academic dishonesty when moderating it or decide to moderate it for that reason, that could be a serious problem.</p>
<p>If the teacher believes that there will be a problem with the IB regarding your oral, he should have you redo your oral with a different notecard.</p>
<p>There’s really too many possibilities here to say anything for certain. You should talk to your IB coordinator and your counselor.</p>
<p>I would love to be able to redo it now…I’ll talk to my IB coordinator and counselor about it. But are there rules against me re-doing it? I have yet to see the grade recieved, and under these circumstances I think it would be acceptable.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what all the rules are, but your IB coordinator will be able to figure out the best course of action.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m currently taking an IB Ab Initio Course (for me, it’s Spanish 2), so I may be able to fill in some of the details. Keep in mind that my response is simply based off from what my Spanish teacher said, NOT the IB Committee. First off, according to my Spanish teacher (he’s the IB coordinator as well), it’s impossible to redo the Spanish Oral Exam, due to the fact that there are millions of students out there who are doing the same oral exam as you are and it would be slightly advantageous for you to redo it. Secondly, I don’t think that you would get moderated. If your teacher specifies that you did not use that notecard during the exam, I don’t think the IB would really punish you. And the notecard must contain only ten words, not ten sentences. What I really suggest you to do is do what RedSeven said above- talk to your IB coordinator. And yes, colleges will be notified of the scores that you get after the exams. They will compare those with the predicted scores that your teachers have provided. Hope this helps, and good luck! :)</p>
<p>You aren’t required to send your IB scores to colleges. A low score on an exam won’t affect your admission, and neither would not receiving the diploma. “Academic dishonesty” might, but if it’s an IB infraction rather than a school one (ie, you didn’t break an honor code, just an IB rule), I wouldn’t worry about it. Your IB coordinator should be able to sort through all this anyway.</p>