多伦多那边满大街IB学校，和各类私校，想着法给高分。看看本地孩子讨论 IB的转换分数吧
真是触目惊心。
咱村的CB/IB在IB群体中还算不错的。
Veronica Guthrie
Posted: 20/03/2017
Ahaha looks like you've stumbled upon IB's best kept secret.
I did IB and I 100% agree that the courses were easy but the conversions were so stupidly high that anyone who did decent could get a 90 average. An example of how whack it was:
For science,
a level 7 is 80%+ raw mark (so like scoring an 80 on a test). A 7 then becomes a 97-100. So, for getting only 4/5 of the test right, you get a near perfect score. Furthermore, a level 5 was about a 68%. Wanna know what that becomes? A 90%. A level 5 in IB is slightly above average, but it translates to a significantly above average Ontario grade.
Some IB courses are reaaaallly bad when it comes to conversion, and in my IB year it was HL history and HL physics that were the worst. Say you got a 70 on a history paper. That's a 7, so a beautiful 97% is put on your report card.
And, say you failed the HL physics exams in May 2016 with a 48%. You would also get a 7, and a final mark of 97%. Pretty wild, eh?
Any SL course was a joke. SL math is a scam and is actually waaaaaaay easier than adv fun and calc and vec because it skims through all the material. Plus, there's no thinking questions, every question is pretty easy to understand and interpret. When you factor in the Math conversion
(also 80% -> level 7) you get an easy 98% even if you don't fully understand the concepts or leave part of a question blank.
Higher level IB courses are a challenge, and I do think it's fair that the conversion is high because I guarantee the Ontario equivalents don't come close to what I had to do. However, I hate how SL courses are treated so special when in reality they are similar or subpar to what is taught by the province. Will it ever get under control? Hell no, every IB school in Ontario works together to keep conversions high, because most students pay for IB and some of that money is kept by the school.
Sorry for the rant guys. It's just that after 2 years of IB, I can finally see what it was really like and I could see through the bullshit that my IB teachers were spreading. IB is pretty helpful and you do learn some cool stuff that no one else does, but damn Ontario needs to get it under control.
