DP Updates

Dear Parents,

Greetings.

Year 12: Here are a few updates to the May 2022 examinations session.

• Adaptation to learning, teaching, and assessment

  • Previous adaptations have been extended to this session

• Examination session

  • IB expects school to make all arrangements to conduct the exams

  • In the circumstances where a school can’t administer the exams, or the students need to quarantine for a short period - IB will release the grades without exams through the contingency measure

    • The IB will provide detailed information on contingency measures for some or all of the students in March 2022

      • IB will not consider any request till this time

  • If the school identifies that the students are not prepared for the exams, the students can withdraw from the exams or differ to the future session without any additional cost

• Awarding

  • The impact of the global pandemic will be considered throughout the grade awarding process

    • The IB will set the grade boundaries to mitigate the pandemic effect

• Internal assessment coursework

  • Upload all IA coursework for external marking with the comments. There is also a requirement to upload the IA coursework for Language A

    • Except for the Arts subjects, and TOK

• Predicted grades

  • The IB will provide the predicted grade distribution for the school

    • The teachers can exceed the distribution without submitting an exception request

      • The IB may ask for the evidence for exceeding the prediction later

        • The IB will provide further information about it in Feb 2022

  • The school may also be contacted to stay within the distribution but the performance of the candidates is weaker than the previous year

Year 11: Year 11 students have submitted the options of the different subjects for their Extended Essay ( EE) for the May 2023 exam session. Curriculum Leaders (CL) and EE coordinator are going through the list and will release the name of the supervisors with the final subject in the first week of March 2022.

Warm regards,

Ram

Diploma Programme Coordinator (DPC)

Global Jaya School