International Baccalaureate

The International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBO -DP, International School, International baccalaureate [ a] ) is an internationally recognized level of education which is awarded by the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate Organization ( International Baccalaureate Organization 's Diploma Programme ).

Educational program

The three programs of the International Baccalaureate are:

• IB Primary Years Programme (PYP ) for students aged three to twelve years ( Pre-school education and basic level, ISCED 0 1)
• IB Middle Years Programme ( MYP ) for students aged eleven to 16 years (mean level, ISCED 2)
• IB Diploma Programme ( DP) for students aged 16 to 19 (upper level, ISCED 3a)

The two-year curriculum of the IB DP requires that students choose six subjects from at least five different subject areas. In addition, each IB Diploma students must complete a work ( Extended Essay ) and the Theory of Knowledge course, which is to stimulate critical and international thinking. Outside the school, the student must also at least 150 hours Creativity, Action, Service - CAS get certified, in which they are at sporting, artistic and allgemeinnützigen activities involved such as social work in the nursing home.

The IB Diploma ( university entrance )

Since 1968, the IB Diploma program is offered. Originally designed for its international character for children of diplomats, the IB is now offered in English, Spanish or French world.

A student of the IB must one subject from each of the six subject groups demonstrate at least three of them in the Higher Level (HL), the others as the default level. Higher Level and Standard Level are comparable to the German power and basic courses. In IB student so occupied instead of the usual three in Germany, two advanced courses, but it also only three basic courses. IB subjects, with the exception of the language B courses usually taught for two years. For a Higher Level subjects 240 hours teaching are proposed for the standard -level courses 150 hours. The Higher Level subjects should reflect the future career aspirations of the students and provide them particularly in these areas rich in content knowledge. To be, for example, the requirements of a later medical studies justice, therefore, recommended that a combination of chemistry and biology at Higher Level. This combination of subjects is no formal requirement for admission to study medicine in Germany, but facilitates content entry into the study.

• Language A1: The mother tongue - for German students so German that is taught as A1 -Language abroad native level. It is a very intense literary curriculum.
• Language A2, B and Ab Initio: Most German students choose English here, but any other language other than the mother tongue is possible. You can choose different levels: A2 has a very high standard and already presupposes a very high level of language skills ( five to seven years of language teaching ), Level B corresponds to an average speech level (two to three years of language teaching ), in Ab Initio the foreign language is learned anew. Also, Latin or Ancient Greek are possible depending on the school.
• Subject Group 3 - Social Sciences: including Business and Management, Economics, Geography, History, History of Islam, IT in the global society, philosophy, psychology, anthropology.
• Subject Group 4 - Science: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Engineering or Design and Technology
• Subject Group 5 - mathematics and computer science: There are four different levels of mathematics that are chosen depending on the individual skills. In addition, the subject computer science can be chosen in addition instead of a subject from the Subject Group 6 in this group.
• Subject Group 6 - Arts and Electives: In this group, the student can either another subject of the subject groups 2 to 5, or select occupy art, music or theater.

In addition, each student must attend the course Theory of Knowledge ( ToK ). A work ( Extended Essay, EE ) of 4000 words over an arbitrary scientific topic also forms an additional element of performance evaluation as the extra-curricular Creativity, Action and Service Program (CAS).

The subjects of groups 1 to 6 are each valued at up to seven points, seven is excellent, and at least four points to pass (pass) are required. For ToK, CAS and EE up to three additional points will be awarded, so that the maximum score is 45 points. 42 to 45 points correspond to the equivalent - or Matura - Average grade of 1.0 in Germany and Austria ( and 6.0 in Switzerland and Liechtenstein ), 36 points of a 2.0 ( or 5.0 ), 30 points on a 3, 0 ( or 4.0 ), 24 points a 4.0 ( or 3.0 ), 18 points a 5.0 ( or 2.0 ) and 12 points less a 6.0 (or 1, 0). The average score is every year at about 30 points, about 0.05 % of candidates achieve the total score of 45 points (7 points in each compartment by all three extra points).

The official formula for the transfer of IB scores in the German grading system is as follows:

In Germany applies for recognition as admissions of the Resolution of the Standing Conference of 10 March 1986 as amended on 31 May 2012. This describes the conditions (in particular restrictions on the choice of subjects ), under which the IB Diploma is recognized as equivalent to the baccalaureate.

The British elite universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for example, require as a prerequisite recording a minimum score 38-40 points in the IB.

National

The IB is offered at thousands of schools around the world, such as at the United World Colleges. The financial statements are recognized in most countries as a qualification for studying at a university ( university entrance qualification ), as well as in Europe and the U.S.

Germany

The IB is offered on all German international schools. In addition, provide other German schools, the IB, so for example the Gymnasium St. Leonhard in Aachen, the Nelson Mandela School Berlin, the Friedrich- Ebert -Gymnasium in Bonn, the Leibniz -Gymnasium Dortmund, the Hermann -Böse -Gymnasium in Bremen, the Bertolt -Brecht -Gymnasium Dresden, the Goethe Schule in Essen, the Goethe -Gymnasium in Frankfurt, the Herder School in Giessen, the Felix-Klein -Gymnasium Göttingen, the Evangelical Stiftische gymnasium in Gütersloh, the Helene -Lange and the Hansa High School in Hamburg, the Schiller School in Hanover, Friedrich Wilhelm and the Lessing -Gymnasium and the St. George 's School in Cologne, the Werner -Heisenberg -Gymnasium in Leverkusen, the Foundation Louis Lund, the Theodor -Heuss -Gymnasium in Ludwigshafen, the Saxon State High School St. Afra in Meissen, Nymphenburg gymnasium in Munich, the gymnasium in the Pauline Munster, Schule Schloss Salem and the Queen Olga pen in Stuttgart. The list is not exhaustive.