Posted on: 08-10-15 19:24:19
Wish you all the good luck in your future endeavors. Please don’t keep anything in heart and you will continue to be successful in future. Once again – good luck.
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A Delhite in Toronto
As you please HW. Those were straight from my heart. I always found you to be very active and down to earth as well as quite helpful.
Anyhow! May you find peace and eternal happiness, as your ID suggests.
Friends, please post on the topic only.
Let us not get carried away.
M
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Live and let live!
Wow, that turned ugly pretty soon. comments edited Happy Friday everyone.
Lets please stay on the topic .
Getting back to the topic , I have been dabbling a little bit into this recently and would like to share and encourage others to share on this from their personal knowledge ....
Also please correct me where needed ... my knowledge may be based on bits and pieces .... and not entirely correct .
There are 3 programs - AP (Advanced Placement) , IBT ( Business & Technology) and IB (International Baccalaureate )
All 3 are geared towards Univ education and perhaps initiate the participants in some Univ level courses taught gradually and controlled at these levels so that learning @ the Univ becomes smoother.
Whereas IBT consists of largely technical subjects , AP may consist of non technical subjects also and perhaps in IBT where you can chose each subject individually and decide to study that only , in AP , you may have to take a complete set , whether or not you intend to use all of them towards University .... ( need to validate this understanding though)
IB or International Baccalaureate is something I have least info on .. can some one kindly elaborate ...
Also is the admission to these 'gifted' programs through a test , teachers recommendation or a combination of both ?
Likewise - if you qualify the test , you can chose to attend a school which may be away from your residing area.... so are these tests school based or common ??
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Fido.
Keep one thing in mind when you put your Kids in IB. Most of the universities require high level grade in the IB courses to give IB credit.
If your kids get standard level grade or low level grade in IB then they do not get IB credit and in this case kids will be at disadvantage.
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Originally posted by Rucking Fetard
If your kids get standard level grade or low level grade in IB then they do not get IB credit and in this case kids will be at disadvantage.
Not getting credit and being at a disadvantage are 2 different status. I believe they will not have any advantage over the other regular course students.
Also, based on my discussions with our school principal, the university don't really give credits for the course - these students still have to earn the same credits as other students to get the bachelors degree. However, at the time of admission, if 2 candidates have exactly similar profile points, the one with an IB/AP will be an advantage. So even without these courses if a regular student demonstrates enough smarts for the admission, he will still score the admin. Taking up the course and not doing well on other aspects of admission will definitely be a disadvantage.
Hiren
