Internal Assessments in the time of COVID
While most other students have been enjoying vacation from online schooling, our IB students have been working diligently to complete those famous IB Internal Assessment (IA) tasks for each of the 6 courses, including a TOK essay and the 4000 word Extended Essay. We have been very impressed with the high quality work being done by our students, their dedication and commitment. Our 11th grade IB cohort have only just begun this process, but are taking advantage of the online learning context to get a jump start on their IAs. 12th graders, on the other hand, are catching up, polishing and finishing up, spending hours every day in intensives with their teachers and then spending more hours working independently! They are truly making us all very proud.
This year, in particular, puts extra pressure on completing high quality IAs due to the COVID-19 epidemic and the possibility of cancelled exams. The IAs will no longer be moderated externally by the IB but will, in fact, be marked externally by the IB. Basically, what this means is that these tasks which perviously were graded by our teachers according to the standards of IB will now be graded by the IB examiners themselves wherever in the world they might be!
Reved up for External Assessments
At the close of the vacation period, 12th graders will shift their focus from completing IAs to preparing for external exams. These external exams will take place in November over the course of three weeks and are synchronous globally to all IB students taking exams in November. To help students prepare for these long written exams, we will be holding mock exams at the end of July. These mock exams will help students become familiarized with the procedure and process of the IB exams and will make visible to both student and teacher alike any areas of content needing extra study and attention.
We applaud our hardworking IB students (Shout Out!) and give our profound gratitude to our hardworking IB teachers for their dedication! IB absurdly proud.