<p>How does IB work? like how do you sign up or get info on them? do colleges like those better than APs? thanks</p>
<p>you have to go to specific school to do ib</p>
<p>IB is an accelerated program, most schools that have the IB program have pre-IB, which extends from freshmen to sophmore year, in those cases, you must have been enrolled in pre-ib to be accepted into IB. IB classes at the end of senior year are accompanied by IB tests (which I believe are on a scale of 7), and if you pass (don't know how many tests) you receive the IB diploma along with your high school diploma and receive college credit for those courses at colleges that accept them (ivy league schools usually accept only those that you scored 6-7 on)</p>
<p>Pre-IB classes are labeled pre-ib and you don't have to take tests for those classes.
You can only enroll in pre-IB if you are an upcoming freshmen or sophmore, and acceptance into the IB program is based upon your academic performance during the sophmore year (at my school anyway)</p>
<p>Someone correct me if I'm wrong.</p>
<p>yeah ur basically right. IB is kind of an alternative to AP in the US, but the # of schools offering it is kind of limited here. The classes/exams are just a couple things. In IB you have to write a 4,000 word extended essay and do alot of community service in 2 yrs, take a theory of knowlege class and more. I'm in pre-Ib which is basically honors. in my school we have AP and IB, but pre-IB is like the stepping stone to all future AP/IB classes.
In my opinion, IB is not given as much credit as AP in the U.S., b/c its an International program and is not issued by the college board.
either way, you are still gonna get a really good college prep ed. I say go for IB if its available to u and you are willing to work extremely hard.</p>
<p>You don't have to do the IB diploma at some schools, I guess that would be mainly the ones like mine that only offer IB. People can choose to not fulfill the diploma requirements and take individual classes for certificates. </p>
<p>The classes work differently than AP. There is an SL (standard level) and HL (higher level). It's sort of hard to explain concisely. In the US a lot of IB schools make English and History automatic HLs for everyone, because state graduation requirements require 4 years of those subjects. HL means you do it a second year but you can take two years of some SL classes, which is where it gets confusing to explain to people. For example, I'm in IB business 1 SL, and next year IB Business 2 is HL, that's all that's offered. But I am taking two years of physics, but I'll sit the SL exam. Diploma candidates are in 6-7 IB classes a year. </p>
<p>For diploma, you need to take 3 SL exams, and 3 HL exams, and not more than 4 HLs. Scoring ranges from 0-7, and then there is a required philosophy class which is a grade combined with your extended essay score to get you some more points, from 0-3. I forget exactly how many points you need, I think like 27 or something. There's also CAS hours, you have to complete 150 and then write 15 journal pages on them. </p>
<p>The exam score is also a certain percentage of your internal assessment score. Internal assessment forms depend on the class. They are mostly written papers, but in math it's a sort of half written/half math work "investigation" and in science it's your lab book. To quote IB, the IA is "internally assessed and externally moderated" which just means that your teacher scores it and then IB requests samples from each mark level and then checks the accuracy and sends back instructions to raie the lowest grades one point, lower the highest grades one point, etc. The exams themselves are mainly essays or short answer, there is some limited multiple choice stuff on science and language B. Although the language ones are usually more like some weird matching stuff than the traditional multiple choice.</p>