耀中是非常一流的國際學校

foolish.mom

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As far as I know, all the YC home grown students (studied YC from primary school or before) take English Language A in IBDP. YCIS is a school who caters for the needs of individual students. For new joiners in secondary, or senior secondary, it's not strange that those students will take English B. We should appreciate the flexibility of the school.

shadeslayer

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As far as I know, all the YC home grown students (studied YC from primary s ...

You can probably tell I am not a YC basher.  I am a supporter of diversity in education. I respect YC's freedom to its language policy. I don't particularly "like" the idea an international school having a large number of Eng Lang B students either.

foolish.mom

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Oh! Sorry, shadeslayer. I supposed to respond to lisinchi's comments, not yours.
As I am no longer a YC parent, I don't know the percentage of students taking English B.

Sheep006

What is the different between Lang A and Lang B? How about Chi Lang A and Lang B? I thought only study Lang A can go to IBDP. Pls correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks!

poonseelai

原帖由 Sheep006 於 15-03-04 發表
What is the different between Lang A and Lang B? How about Chi Lang A and Lang B? I thought only stu ...

IBDP中或英language A 都應該是學生母語或first language, 包括文學分析；language B是language acquisition, 主要是語文運用。至於學生有什麼條件才可修讀DP則每間學校要求不同。

nintendo

poonseelai 發表於 15-3-4 11:38
Sorry, 老眼分花看錯了，take language B 是會有些學系不能報，如港大法律系。

有 EK 網友話過，佢小朋友間學校，雖然大部分學生讀 English B，但一樣大把學生入到 law 和 medi，連 oxbridge 和 ivies 都冇問題。

jolalee

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which school is that?

shadeslayer

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which school is that?

本地傳統直資？

964000

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有 EK 網友話過，佢小朋友間學校，雖然大部分學生讀 English B，但一樣大把學生入到 law 和 medi，連 ox ...

If you aim at science, they don't really care about language grading that much, HKCEE level grade C is ok. I know people get into medics, HKCEE gd C only, but phy, Chem, bio, maths Gd A. HKU law: A level Eng C only, but chi, history A.

poonseelai

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有 EK 網友話過，佢小朋友間學校，雖然大部分學生讀 English B，但一樣大把學生入到 law 和 medi，連 ox ...

是否讀少一年的直資學校？如無記錯首兩年它只提供Eng B

annie40

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情況屬合理。

hkparent

原帖由 nintendo 於 15-03-04 發表
有 EK 網友話過，佢小朋友間學校，雖然大部分學生讀 English B，但一樣大把學生入到 law 和 medi，連 ox ...

If they take Eng B, they must take Chi A, which is even more difficult if not impossible for IS students. I guess it must be a local school.

nintendo

poonseelai 發表於 15-3-5 07:46
是否讀少一年的直資學校？如無記錯首兩年它只提供Eng B

其實一向 EK 都有討論 IB 選科，以 English 來說，大部分學生都選 English A，而 dilema 都是 HL vs SL  和 Lit vs Lang Lit。我一向聽回來的消息，是好多外國大學都幾重視 English A，不少大學更看 English A Lit 高 Lang Lit 一線。但既然網友提供了資料，話 English B 都大把頂級名牌收，或者是我收錯料，事實英文唔叻都沒大不了。

nintendo

lisinchi 發表於 15-3-5 10:00
至於選擇英文language B，會否在選科時有一定局限？會否給予「走精面」感覺？

選擇 English B，即另一科語文要 A ，理論上公平。
是否走精面，要由大學決定，如果真如網友說，成功入名大，即名大也覺得冇問題。
問題係，到底真係有多少實例，可以憑 English B 入到名大或本地 law。

foolish.mom

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This discussion can be compared to another hot topic at EK: the "local" students at "real" international schools who speak Cantonese at home for 17 years, but still take Chinese B HL (and English A of course) at IB DP. Some said the students are taking an easy way out, in order to get a better IB DP results. Some also said this approach is also discriminated by local and overseas universities. This may also be true to a certain extent.
In my son's case, yes, he was trying to take an easy way out when his Chinese grades were not satisfactory some years ago. The trade off is not getting a bilingual diploma, and taking the risk of not getting certain kinds of jobs in Hong Kong. He might also be discriminated by local and overseas universities. Luckily, he got conditional offer from HKU, and all 5 offers from UK universities, including top ones and Oxbridge.

The scenario of taking English B (and Chinese A) may be discriminated by certain courses both local and overseas. I personally think it is not acceptable for law courses in top UK universities. However, the "defeat" may be fixed to a certain extent by getting a top IELT grade? At the end of the day, the universities are comparing students taking DSE and IB in Hong Kong, and elsewhere in the world.