Hi Dicky,
Good news indeed, blue. Interesting to hear about the International Bacc. choice. I wonder if those depend so much on multiple-choice answers, as many of our A levels seem to these days (or am I wrong?).
What proportion of nature or nurture was there to influence her results, do you think?
Thank you. Actually, there's no multiple choice at all (at least not in the subjects she took in any case). It's all essays and written answers, including an extended essay written outside the exam hall and a large section on theory of knowledge (TOK) which is a very good thing I think. You have to pick three "higher" subjects and two "lower' ones, but the available choices force you to take a science, maths, English, a foreign language, a humanities etc so you can't narrow down as quickly as you can for "A" levels. It's not for everyone therefore, but the consensus seems to be that you get a better education in the round with IB - I know that quite a few schools are converting to it for that reason, though the unis have been slow to recognise is as much as they should.
Incidentally, of the 150,000 worldwide who took it this year only 146 scored the max 45 points so we're feeling very proud of her right now.
Whose genes? Ask her Mum!
PS She's looked at the individual marks now for each subject, and thinks one of them should have been higher in % terms even though it was high enough for the max score of seven points. She's just asked me whether she should ask for a re-mark for that one. Good grief!
