<p>Hey there...Well i am in the two year IB Program starting from this year. Anyway, i am excessively clueless about how IB Marks are Grades work. Here are a couple of questions if anyone can help me out:</p>
<p>1)What is known as a 'good' IB Total Mark for colleges ranked 10ish- 30ish... maybe U Chicago and ending with Tufts. What do these range of schools require to be considered for admission.</p>
<p>2) If you are/were an IB Student, what total mark did you get and where did you gain acceptance?</p>
<p>3)How do the bonus marks work ... on top of 42 you can get 3 bonus and how is that determined when your teacher is giving a predicted total score for you?</p>
<p>4) Are the predicted total scores only dependent on first two months of Senior year Marks... or do teachers take into account Junior year grades? </p>
<p>5) How must one obtain a 6 or a 7... is it based on how your peers in your class do or how all the students in all of IB do? I hear its relative to how other do. Does this mean that in a class of 10 really smart people, they are all able to achieve a level of 6 or 7? Or do a specific number of people per class only earn a 7 or 6. </p>
<p>I would really appreciate if someone could clear up these confusions for me! Our teachers are reluctant to explain so any help is needed!Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>I think you're a bit confused. For IB you get normal class grades, and then diploma points. Points are the ones out of 42.</p>
<p>1) Your total IB score will not have come out by the time you are accepted to college, thus it is irrelevant. I heard somewhere that Oxford likes to have applicants with 39+, but I don't know if that's true and it really bears no relevance to the U.S. universities.</p>
<p>2)I got a 34 (so bad! >.>), but as I said that was after I got accepted to college.</p>
<p>3) The bonus marks are only determined after you send your Extended Essay and Theory of Knowledge paper into the IBO. They grade them and determine points based on some sort of matrix.</p>
<p>4) When possible, predicted scores are based on the mark your teacher gives when reading your paper. They're not really based on class grades, though they make take into account previous papers.</p>
<p>5) 6 or 7 isn't based on how well your class does. Remember that the whole world is getting graded here. There's a rubric used to grade papers, and the grades can be adjusted using the complicated exam grading heirarchy. I'm not sure that it's curved though. :/ I'm really not sure on that.</p>
<p>oxford only considers 39+ (or was it 38) it's on their website. </p>
<p>anyone can get a 6 or 7. It depends on how well you do on the test. but what really matters is the predicted score, and well if you have really good classmates your predicted might be a bit on the low side. </p>
<p>and arashi, 34 is a very respectable score... more than half the people drop out of IB so...</p>
<p>the 3 bonus marks are from your TOK teacher. although the actual mark comes from both TOK and your EE</p>
<p>Hey! I'm a senior in an IB program (currently up to my neck in EE and CAS stuff!), and I'd be glad to help in any way I can.</p>
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<li><p>From what I've heard, colleges unfortunately don't seem to place IB above AP, as they should, since the program as a whole (not individual IB classes vs. AP ones) entails so much more work than mere honors classes. Since you take your Higher Level (HL) exams in May of your senior year, your colleges won't even see your exam grades, just the fact that you're in the program. They could possibly see your Standard Level (SL) scores taken after your junior year, if you chose to disclose them.</p></li>
<li><p>Haha, sorry, not quite yet... If it helps, though, seniors from my public high school who graduated from our tiny IB program last year are currently freshmen at Yale, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, and Emory. They all got pretty good IB scores, but once again, those colleges didn't even see the scores until months after they were accepted.</p></li>
<li><p>Your bonus points can come from your Extended Essay (EE) and Theory of Knowledge (ToK) grades. I'm not too certain about the specifics, though.</p></li>
<li><p>I don't know about this one--we don't "predict" our grades at my program.</p></li>
<li><p>The great thing about IB is how holistic it is. Unlike AP, your proficiency in a subject isn't decided in one sitting. You are truly graded on the merit of your work, across several planes of evaluation--internal and external assessments (labs and essays, PLUS a final exam). That means that you are graded for YOU. There should be no cap on the number of 6s and 7s in your class, if everyone deserves a 6 or 7.</p></li>
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<p>thx arashi, username and mylime that helped a lot... but i am hearing a b it of a contradictory message here. I asked colleges and they want to see predicted IB Grades so they apparently do see something... they said low 30s or high 40s .. do they mean WITH the bonus marks or without it.</p>
<p>^That's so bizarre, I was never asked that. The only time I reported IB scores was for the tests I had taken Junior year. If you do have to report them, I'd say add the bonus points if they can be predicted.</p>
<p>The person to ask these questions to is your school's IB coordinator.</p>
<p>Me neither... I don't know how you could "predict" your scores. Maybe you could estimate them, for personal knowledge, but it doesn't seem like it would be valid enough to put on a college app. Yeah, talk to your IB director or college counselor.</p>
<p>In terms of predicted scores, your IB coordinator would put that together in a "transcript" to send to universities. He/she bases your predicted score from talking to your teachers and seeing what your performance in the respective classes is like. No idea whether your bonus scores are included, as those are based only on EE and TOK...</p>
<p>In terms of scores, my understanding is that it's curved on the world scale. In English HL for instance, I think something like 7% of the world receives a 7. The stats for past years are published on IBO's website if you care to look.</p>