<p>“I sincerely do not understand why IB kids are so passionate about the program.”</p>
<p>That’s because IB kids love learning :D</p>
<p>I don’t think perdicting grades is a problem for the IB program. As some of you may know not all the exams are submitted for external evaluation: exams and papers are all graded at HS and only a % of them are send to the IB evaluators among with all the predicted grades. Once the evaluator revise the exams he/she will compare them with the predicted grades given to those exams by the HS, if grades are both accurate (HS and IB evaluator) they will all remain the same, if not, the evaluator may lower all grades if consider they have been inflated. So, as you may notice theachers will actually do an effort not to inflate grades and it would be easy for Harvard to know if a certain HS tends to inflate grades by comparing predicted grades with the ones given by the IB.
And as someone previously stated, IB It’s not about memorizing, It’s about reasoning and also trying to contribute with your knowledge in some way.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but the EE will not change one’s acceptance. Any real AP class would require multiple rigorous research assignments that would be on on par to the difficulty of the EE.</p>
<p>^ um maybe it depends on the school but mine had AP and IB and the AP kids had two major research papers over two years that only had to be about 6 pages each - nothing close to the EE which is 4,000 words (about 18 pages for me). While I agree that one essay won’t do much good, in my school at least IB was definitely the more rigorous option and we definitely had more work, more essays, and more major research papers overall in addition to the other IB requirements such as the EE, internal assessments, TOK, group 4, etc.</p>
<p>^ andrew is simply wrong.</p>
<p>And so is labertita. IB examiners never compare their marking to “predicted grades”. There is a difference between “predicted grades” (which are a prediction of the overall grade a student is expected to receive for the subject) and an internal examination grade, which is an actual grading of an assignment or coursework. IB chief examiners DO compare their own marking to internal grades, NOT predicted grades. The difference is key.</p>
<p>What colleges usually get sent are PREDICTED grades, not internal examination grades.</p>
<p>as for admission purposes MIT, not sure about harvard, considers AP=IB</p>