IB DON'T take Chinese B HL

FS

If you are a Chinese in Hong Kong, most U in UK and USA will not consider  Chinese B High Level as appropriate subject. The son of my friend failed in his application due to this reason.

Even HKU and CUHK do not accept Chinese B to be one of the High Level subject. I learnt it from their U's information day. I have expressed that how about if the student has studied in international school since P1.  They said that if you are a Chinese and live in Hong Kong for several years. They will not accept Chinese B to be one of the High Level subject. Please be careful !!

bobbycheung

我都成日聽到類似說法, 但真係好難搞因為 Chinese A 攞高分比 Chinese B HL 困難好多.  

FS

Our school advised to take French B or French Ab inito.

nintendo

FS 發表於 14-11-23 11:40
If you are a Chinese in Hong Kong, most U in UK and USA will not consider  Chinese B High Level as appropriate subject. The son of my friend failed in his application due to this reason.

I agree that it is not advisable to apply with Chinese B HL, if a student is home grown chinese child. However, it is not possible to know whether someone failed in an application because of this. More, most universities would not tell you why you failed.

Also, the problem probably came from the students claiming Chinese B in HL. Universities cares a lot about the 3 HL subjects. If you are doing language B (even french, spanish etc) in HL, you are wasting one of your HL. For science and engineering, best to put science, math in HL. For arts major, better put Group 3 (e.g. history, psychology, geography) and English A in HL.

For your friend;s son, it might have been better if he took Chinese B SL instead and taking one more HL in other subject.

foolish.mom

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Suggest that students can take Chinese B HL together with 3 other HL subjects.

ANChan59

foolish.mom 發表於 14-11-23 21:07
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Suggest that students can take Chinese B HL together with 3 other HL subjects. ...

Good suggestions.

MYGOODNESS

foolish.mom 發表於 14-11-23 21:07
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Suggest that students can take Chinese B HL together with 3 other HL subjects. ...

Would it be too much work load to take 4 HL ?

foolish.mom

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Yes, lesson time is more. But the students can get higher grades more easily. Chinese B HL easy to get a 6. Chinese A SL no guarantee. It depends if the student is willing to use more time to get 1 more IB point. Work usually involves writing and writing to polish writing skills. Not difficult.

Artie

FS 發表於 14-11-23 11:40
If you are a Chinese in Hong Kong, most U in UK and USA will not consider  Chinese B High Level as a ...

Do you mind sharing the subject combination, and what programs (i.e. program major) he applied to?

I think universities also care a lot about subject combinations of students.

bobbycheung

foolish.mom 發表於 14-11-24 11:01
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Yes, lesson time is more. But the students can get higher grades more easily ...

其實我最驚係d大學覺得中國人讀返中文係唔夠challenging.  就算你考得好, 都唔當甚麼一回事. 尤其是 US top colleges, 要求你讀 challenging courses 又要攞 top grades.  缺一不可. 係咁嘅情形之下, 可能唔係讀 Chinese A or Chinese B, 又或者 HL or SL 嘅問題, 而係中國人在 IB 選科時需要諗吓好唔好讀中文.

Chole

Oh!  My kid's school does not offer Chinese A and frankly speaking I don't think that my kid can do Chinese A anyway.

Say if she takes another language instead of Chinese, would the universities in HK consider her unfavourably because no Chinese result?

nintendo

I have read it in EK a while ago, that someone said his child and classmates, have got offers from HKU and CUHK with Chinese A + English B. Plus lots of offers from top tier US universities as well.
Now, some other people say that English A + Chinese B is not going to take students to local Us, and not to UK and US universities as well.
Someone must have got the wrong information.
Can anyone shed some light?

poonseelai

我相信不能一刀切話英美不睇Chi B, 每間學校或每科收生要求也不同，識人Chi B 入 Oxbridge, 又知道LSE reject 申請因HL科目(包括Chi B HL) not rigorous enough. 科大前兩年無要求要中文科（今年無聽），香港越來越多學生考lB，大學提高要求不唔出奇。至於美國，收生一向要全方位考慮學生是否合適，當然 Chinese 考 Chi B 有機會被視為不敢挑戰自己

foolish.mom

Some students admitted by top US universities studied Chinese B HL. As I said, it is better to take 3 more HL subjects. Students with 4 HL subjects can be seen by US admission officers as a challenge.

ANChan59

原帖由 poonseelai 於 14-11-24 發表
我相信不能一刀切話英美不睇Chi B, 每間學校或每科收生要求也不同，識人Chi B 入 Oxbridge, 又知道LSE reje ...

贊成，不能一刀切。

入唔到會有不同理由，不一定是中文B HL。

nintendo

FS 發表於 14-11-23 14:14
Our school advised to take French B or French Ab inito.

I have heard that some unis (or some popular programs) do not prefer ab initio. So it is best to check with school counsellor. It is best to do one Language A + one Language B.

nintendo

ANChan59 發表於 14-11-24 21:29
贊成，不能一刀切。

入唔到會有不同理由，不一定是中文B HL。

Agreed. May be missing other HL as well. Like Math HL is required for engineering and finance. Or Chemistry HL preferred for Chemistry major. And so on. Or it may simply be that the student's score did not meet the threshold. Or even if he did, there are so many others that scored much higher then him. To be honest, even if he had taken Chinese A HL, if his score is not competitive, he can still be rejected. Without further information, we are unable to tell why he was rejected.

webeheld

This rumor is false (unless the institution specifically informs you that your application is not considered as a result of offering Chinese B HL in your application). In fact for most subjects it does not matter if the applicant has taken Chinese A or B since it does not affect their expected performance in their intended program/major anyway (e.g. medicine, business…etc). Since the curriculum reform Chinese B HL is now not as easy as before.

ANChan59

原帖由 webeheld 於 14-11-25 發表
This rumor is false (unless the institution specifically informs you that your application is not co ...

You are right. The language curriculum is changed in 2013.

FS

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