IB parents , please share your view on IB!

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原帖由 WYmom 於 10-12-16 16:55 發表


IBD appears to be the trend, it is also known to be tough, more difficult than AL and SAT.   Students must choose both Science and Art subjects.  For DBS and SPCC, the schools choose the more capabl ...

SAT is not a curriculum and it is not a public exam like AL or HKCEE.
It is just an aptitude exam. If students target universities in the USA then they have to take this exam. Universities do not merely look at SAT scores but also school results. As such all students from all curriculum (including IBDP students) have to take the SAT.

[ 本帖最後由 nintendo 於 10-12-17 01:30 編輯 ]

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I want to clarify that SAT is something additional to any secondary diploma. It is NOT part of the US high school curriculum/education. On the other hand AL or HKCEE is part of high school curriculum.
SAT is something totally unrelated to high school. It is an aptitude test that most US universities are asking for. In canada, you need to submit TOEFL scores for universities if you are from a non-english speaking school. You may consider SAT and TOEFL the same type of aptitude test. THe reason is that in the US there is no single curriculum that all schools follow, and since they also consider students from other countries, they need some kind of test to rank/judge students. Other aptitude tests are LSAT, GMAT, SCAT, etc, which are for different ages and for different purpose.
So it is not as if SAT is what you have to do. A lot of people who have no confidence in getting good SAT scores or high school grade points, would apply to community colleges instead and get admission to 2nd year of university.
Having said that, in my opinion, SAT is not exactly hard. If you do enough pass papers, it is not hard to find the patterns of the questions. I suggest students to start preparing for it early..