What's your IB School's Diploma Rate?

[flsweetheart422]

I my school's diploma rate fell 6 percent this previous year and is now at 87%. I was just curious to see where that falls on the general spectrum.

So where does your school stand?

[Abu]

4/6 = 2/3 = 66%

Better than last year which was 3/7 = less than 50%

[__inthemaking]

44/46 = 96%

That was this year.

[deissi]

389/390 = 99.7%

Since the beginning of the IB programme at our school.

Some ******* failed M08. :F

Heard of a school where no single student has ever received a diploma

[thatgirl]

We're the first IB class at my school. Ever.

[Stereoisomer]

hmm last year:

96/97 =99%

One guy failed by one point <sniff> but he somehow still went to uni -shrugs-

[IBStuck]

i know my old school in FL had one of 84% this year. and i think my school here was 100%.

[QueenSara]

This year it was something like 11/12, appx. 90%, but previous years we've had about 50% or even worse.. Hopefully we will be the first 100%

[Anonymouser]

My school's rate is 9 / 11 so that's around 82% which is okay I guess. Out of every 10, 2 fail, so yea around 6 or 7 should be failing from my class? (Although I'm sure it's going to be more than that haha)

389/390 = 99.7%

Since the beginning of the IB programme at our school.

Some ******* failed M08. :F

Heard of a school where no single student has ever received a diploma

Wow! What's your school's name? 389 in how many years?

[deissi]

My school's rate is 9 / 11 so that's around 82% which is okay I guess. Out of every 10, 2 fail, so yea around 6 or 7 should be failing from my class? (Although I'm sure it's going to be more than that

Wow! What's your school's name? 389 in how many years?

M92 was the first time our school participated in IB final exams. About 25 students graduate each year. My school is Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu in Helsinki, Finland.

[Anonymouser]

I did a quick calculation of how many graduate each year and I got the exact same result, haha.

You guys must have really good teachers with such a passing rate, this would have been the 16th year for your school and only one failed out of 390!

Its weird that no one from your school failed in the first few years, that's usually the case. Mashallah.

Heard of a school where no single student has ever received a diploma

No comment...

Edited October 4, 2008 by Anonymouser

[laneolaneo1]

Y1- 100%

Y2- <80%

Y3- ?

[stp]

at my school there is not a single student that has failed in the IB diploma.

[gaggia]

Heard of a school where no single student has ever received a diploma

That's a primarily vocational school in the North Carolina triangle area, the students have some serious problems besides academics, but the teachers are trying hard nevertheless =/

[Chesire_Cat]

At my school, they wouldn't tell us (so I'm guessing it's pretty bad...)

Also, they told us that 4 people didn't receive their Diploma due to plagiarism, and that 1 person didn't complete the CAS hours, and therefore she didn't receive her diploma either.

[Unperfect]

The ones in my school that are predicted to fail the IB get to pass the french bac(with easy options), so we have a near 100% pass rate(I guess its around 95%), and the average points is 34.

Edited November 16, 2008 by Unperfect

[Hyperbole]

We have 99.7% since 1997, apparently, although the Diploma programme has been around at our school since 1994. (I just looked through the whole of the IB site for my school.) Only two people out of 729 did not get their Diplomas, which I guess is pretty good... It's funny that my year is the largest since 2001, with 76 candidates! The average has ranged between 34 and 39 since 1997, as well.

But I think my school's rate is pretty untrue. While the school can't kick you out, per se, there are numerous ways for the school to make sure that nobody goes through the programme who isn't expected to pass. There is the entrance test in Maths and English before you get offered a place, and then there's the PrIB year which determines which subjects you are allowed to take. (Grades range from 1 to 6, and you have to have a 5 or a 6 to be allowed to choose that subject at HL, except for Maths where you have to have a 6 for HL and 5+ for Methods.) After that there is continuous control of every student; if any teacher feels that a student isn't going to pass in a subject, the coordinator is notified and there are Serious Talks that may lead to quitting or switching subjects. Really many people quit between the years, both before IB1 and IB2, and there were quite a few subject changes before the start of IB2.

So it's not a very representative figure, in my opinion! If the control system (they called it a "safety net" at the information meeting in PrIB) hadn't been so rigorous, I'm sure people would be failing every year.

Does this kind of thing happen at other schools too? *curious*

Edited November 16, 2008 by Hyperbole

[Unperfect]

Does this kind of thing happen at other schools too? *curious*

Yeah, thats how I got allowed into Math HL, with a 6(i got all the questions right but didn't finish it in time ). Basicaly at the end of grade 10, while all the grade 12 pass their IB, there is a test on all the MYP subjects you had(except for subjects like Art, DT or Drama). Also they only allow you to take a subject at HL only if the teacher you had in that subject says that you are able to. For subjects that you didn't have(e.g. Chem if you had Bio and Physics in the MYP) the coordinator took a look at your overall level and subjects linked to the one yo want to take and confirm.

[KiwiFruit]

My school has a pass rate of 94%, I hope i dont fail, but this website looks really useful! Some kids failed for cheating, bad bad bad

[Bandev]

For the past two years we have had everyone pass which was 40/40 in 2006 and 45/45 in 2007, the year before one person failed.