Country for country university requirements for IBDP course selection

How the IB assesses the Diploma

Students are scored on a scale of 1–7 points from results of examinations and coursework.  Subjects are graded according to the following scale: 7 Excellent  6 Very good  5 Good  4 Satisfactory  3 Mediocre  2 Poor  1 Very poor  N No grade  The TOK course and the...
Introducing the IB Diploma

Introducing the IB Diploma

The IB diploma is a rigorous academic program with world-wide recognition; it prepares you to enter universities around the world. Students can earn an IB Diploma by achieving points for each course gained through a combination of internal coursework and rigorous...

Do’s & Don’ts for parents – college entrance essays

Parents can be very supportive and very useful in this process, particularly if your son or daughter has decided to talk about some life changing moment. Now, it’s quite difficult sometimes for teenagers to remember with any great accuracy, what they did or thought...

Most common mistake when approaching US college essay

Don’t underestimate how much time all of this is going to take. And then that leads on to the sort of related question, how many colleges and universities are you going to apply to? And therefore how many essays will you need to write. Some students apply to, in my...

How to plan and then write your college application essay

First of all, have a look at the the essay prompt, the essay title, that you’ve selected from the the list of possibilities. And then ask yourself, what is this essay title actually asking me, because far too many students wander away from the title. And it’s very...