<p>What's the difference?</p>
<p>You get a separate high school diploma for IB, right? Or an extra one? I’m not too sure. IB classes are the same, I do believe, in every country. Though I encourage somebody to correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>AP classes are college level courses in high school that offer college credit (so if you go to a school with a core, you might be able to qualify into higher level classes. They use AP classes to place you.</p>
<p>There are a lot of requirements for an IB diploma that aren’t required for AP classes. For examples, you have to write an extended essay, get 150 community service hours (50 creative, 50 action, 50 service), and do internal assessments for every subject, among other things. Those assessments are a portion of your final score for that subject which is determined after you take an exam. You take 6 exams and need 24 points to receive your diploma. I know at many schools an AP curriculum is considered less rigorous than that school’s IB program. Those are some of the main differences.</p>
<p>My school does not have IB, no honors, but does have AP. Yet at the same time, it is a good school and nationally ranked. (USN&WR)</p>
<p>IB is pointless hell, AP is better known and more rewarding in terms of college credit.</p>
<p>Well my School only offers Pseudo-AP (where the teachers aren’t certified to teach AP but the government doesn’t know so they teach it anyway)</p>
<p>So ap?</p>
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lolwut?</p>
<p>Does your state have some special requirements for AP teachers?</p>
<p>They TECHNICALLY have to be certified to teach AP. But non certified teachers do it anyway and it shows up as AP on our transcript. Yeah, Alabama I know.</p>
<p>The AP spanish teacher let us cheat on the National Spanish Honor society exam.</p>
<p>150 students took the English and History AP EXAMS</p>
<p>Only 11 of them passed</p>
<p>Some of the AP classes teach identical material to regulars classes but on a faster pace…</p>
<p>Damn ^ tenC</p>
<p>And one more thing… a high school spends 17K on a single student?</p>