IB Exams

<p>Okay, here are my scores:
English HL: 5; I was kinda expecting it b/c my oral commentary was so bad. </p>

<p>Chemistry HL: 4; The test was so hard that I'm glad that I passed it. It was a little disappointing b/c I had been doing really well in class and on the practice tests from past IB exams.</p>

<p>History HL: 6; It was a bit of a surprise b/c I thought that I bombed Paper 3.</p>

<p>Anthropology SL: 6; Yay, but no credit.</p>

<p>Math Methods SL: 6; Yay, since Paper 2 was evil.</p>

<p>EE: C and ToK: B; EE grade was expected b/c I don't think that I applied anthropological concepts with enough depth and breadth b/c I was trying to put in a lot of interviews/primary source material that was specific to the region. As for ToK, it was a surprise b/c I didn't really know what I was talking about last year.</p>

<p>The biggest surprise of all was French, in which I got a P :)</p>

<p>Right now, I hope that I can still get a diploma...</p>

<p>You poor guys, those grades don't gell with your overall achievement. Remember the bottom line is you got that diploma and you worked your butts off and now that you have juggled all of that , and now you will do it in college more easily and good for you!</p>

<p>Sigh, I went out of my way to tak my kid out the Newsweek top 20 school to do the IB at a lower ranked school so he could learn to write and write well. Mission accomplished there, but when I see D's and C's from spectacular students like yourselves I become vastly annoyed. Okay, rant over, go and celebrate because you really deserve it.</p>

<p>If you don't mind I would like to ask you guys some questions about taking AP exams for HL Hist and Eng and perhaps bio so that my s can snag come extra credit. Truth be told we don't know how to scedhule an AP exam cuz our school is strictly IB. I really appreciate your insight as it appears that you have managed to work the system and frankly I love that!
Again congradulations, all of this hard work WILL pay off.
Cheers!</p>

<p>Actually the only place I probably should have tried AP exams (really hard to do in my school system though) is in the SL subjects. I got credit in Hist and Eng because almost all schools give credit for HL and UVA and W&M will give credit for 5, 6, and 7 in most cases. If your son is strong in these subjects he should get a 5, probably a 6. While 7s are hard to come by, they don't seem to yield much more than 6s in the case of UVA and W&M. </p>

<p>If he's doing well in an SL language, he should probably take the AP exam there. They will give credit for a 4 on an HL language but not 7s on SL? That is off. My language was an SL/HL split, so we practiced HL papers all year too and a 5 on HL is definitely equivalent mastery to a 7 on SL. I could run colleges so much better than these people but whatever. But if he thinks he can get a 5 or 6 on an HL exam, I am not sure taking the AP exam will matter much. If, however, he thinks he can get an AP 4 or 5 on an exam he is taking IB SL in, he definitely should, because W&M and UVA will award no credit for IB SL. </p>

<p>The grades referenced above are just from the IB, colleges never see them. So they don't really matter. Actually most people I've talked to had pretty low grades this year, compared to past years. My advisor gave me an A on his prediction for my EE, I think, based on past years (our school's history EEs have generally scored well enough) but IB gave me a C, which doesn't really bother me, I didn't need the EE/TOK points and most people don't. I had the highest grade in my TOK class but again got a C there, which actually has some frightening implications for the class, come to think of it. Whatever my teacher gave me wasn't too low because I had a 95 the quarter he graded our "official" essays, but apparently IB was not as pleased. It was his first year teaching TOK so maybe he didn't know the grading too well though, I guess not. I still learned a lot.</p>

<p>I also got a 7 on History HL (Americas). I was a little surprised because I thought my paper three was kind of weak, but then again it was probably balanced by papers 1 and 2 and the IA.</p>

<p>Oh yeah TJ9854, I hope that "P" grade works out. Weird...they don't say much about that either. I wonder what other info. It can't be missing IAs and stuff because it says that would be "N"...unless you were sick and got an exemption. Well update us with what you find, good luck I hope it works out. Your other scores are awesome though.</p>

<p>i got:</p>

<p>english hl- 6
french sl -5
business sl -5
history of americas- 6
physics sl -4
math -6</p>

<p>extended essay i got A, and TOK i got B.</p>

<p>Princedog, what do you mean colleges don't see those grades? IBO itself sends those grades to the college of your choice..which is UVa in this case.</p>

<p>If you guys did the Math HL paper in May 2005, it was the toughest cookie i had to swallow ever in IB.</p>

<p>Hey BGjeez, sorry it took so long to answer your post. First off, congratulations to everyone who got their diploma. And you should seriously have the best time of your life this summer because finishing IB was one of the greatest feelings in the world. I remember the day I finished my last exam things were so surreal. I couldn't imagine myself not returning to my rigorous schedule in IB. </p>

<p>But as far as workload at UVA is concerned, IB has taught us how to get used to irregular patterns of sleep, handle 10-15 page essays (when in college they are DOUBLE SPACED! At least for me it had to be single spaced in IB, usually going by number of words), and feel like you're breezing through first year of college. In reality however, and with all other things in life, things are much more complex than they seem.</p>

<p>vistany, Business HL or SL is a piece of cake. Your son should have no trouble getting at least a 5/6 if he keeps up with the syllabus and do a lot of memorization.</p>

<p>tennis, do you really think a IB diploma made handling the UVa workload easier? Just the good times makes it hard to stay grounded??? </p>

<p>Any idea If HL Business gets any credit at UVa?</p>

<p>yes. i think you can get comm 180 credit for HL Biz</p>

<p>just google: uva ib credit</p>

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Princedog, what do you mean colleges don't see those grades? IBO itself sends those grades to the college of your choice..which is UVa in this case.

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<p>Well it's actually W&M in my case :) But UVA in yours I suppose. </p>

<p>I was talking about the TOK/EE letter grades, not the 7 scale scores. Frankly, even if they do send the TOK/EE results, colleges don't care about that grade and aren't giving any credit for it anyway. I meant that it isn't like the grade on your transcript for your TOK class that you got during the year. I got all As on that and that's what colleges saw, so I don't really care what IB gives me. </p>

<p>I don't think the IBO sends anything to schools, but most coordinators will have you address envelopes to the school you committed to at some point so your school's program can send a copy of your results. Otherwise, as far as I know, you're responsible for getting them the results on your own. At least our results are sent through the school, I have never seen anything from the IBO allowing you to designate a college like CB does.</p>

<p>From UVa.'s website;</p>

<p>"The College of Arts and Sciences accepts only IB scores sent directly from IB North America. Their web address is <a href="http://www.ibo.org/"&gt;http://www.ibo.org/&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p>

<p>Hmm well I should probably check that. I assumed they'd take them from our coordinator. She has us address the envelopes during one of the exams. I guess it's like how they won't take SAT scores on a transcript or something, but still you'd think it came sealed from your school like your transcript it wouldn't matter.</p>

<p>This is what I have from my IBC:</p>

<p>IB results are submitted by IBNA to the uni of your choice. If for some reason the uni doesn't receive your results, please provide them with a copy of your Candidate PIN form so they can review results online and have them contact the IBNA office in New York (212) 696-4464 to have the results forwarded. </p>

<p>Hope this helps!</p>

<p>vistany, I think it's a bit of both. It's easy to slack off in your first semester since you'll have more distractions like partying, etc. as you start to settle down. However, IB definitely helps you handle the workload here. There's so much reading in college and you gotta prepare yourself for that.</p>

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IB results are submitted by IBNA to the uni of your choice. If for some reason the uni doesn't receive your results, please provide them with a copy of your Candidate PIN form so they can review results online and have them contact the IBNA office in New York (212) 696-4464 to have the results forwarded.

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<p>But how do we tell them which one? I don't think I ever filled anything out. Oh except I guess our coordinator knows. Maybe she just told them/ gave them the envelopes we had to address.</p>

<p>To be honest, neither the IBNA nor I have submitted my official IB transcript to UVA. As soon as my counselor received my results online in July, I told him to type up a "Final Transcript Report", listing the grades I obtained for IB. I then got credits at UVA, obviously.</p>

<p>Hey Tennis, color yourself lucky. I don't think we could find a counselor working this time of year. It looks like most of us would have to make a call to the IBNA. Any idea what the UVa deadline for rec'g this information is?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>Well, check this out. ISIS has my IB scores but not my AP scores from past years or this year...weird!</p>