CAS

CAS is a mandatory part of the international baccalaureate's core Diploma Programme curriculum, and therefore is a requirement to receive the IB Diploma. CAS aims to encourage students to support communities they love and look at a variety of different perspectives. CAS achieves this by having students create and manage CAS experiences and projects on the strands Creativity, Activity, and Service.

CAS learning outcomes are sets of goal categories that a student expects to reach in their experience/project. When creating their experience the student will be prompted to choose all of the 7 learning outcomes which apply to their experience/project. By the end of their 18-month CAS course, they will be expected to have reached each learning outcome at least twice. It is important to note that students cannot simply select all learning outcomes for an experience/project recklessly, but the learning outcome must have a significant role in the experience/project, meaning the student must choose their outcomes wisely and reflect on them. 

Each additional learning outcome will add additional CAS Questions to the CAS Question reflection page. The 7 learning outcomes are strength & growth, challenge & skills, initiative & planning, commitment & perseverance, collaborative skills, global engagement, and ethics of choices & actions.

The Difficulty Rating

The difficulty rating is a spectrum created to measure how much students struggle with CAS learning outcomes. A group of CAS students is asked to rate each learning outcome on a scale of 1-5 on its difficulty level and the average rating is the difficulty rating. All the averages are then laid out and ranked from highest (Hardest difficulty) to lowest (Easiest difficulty). While this is not an official rating from the IB, it may be useful for students as they are able to plan ahead to prepare themselves to face difficult learning outcomes. You can see the difficulty rating for each learning outcome on their respective pages.