Summarized from Channel News Asia
05 January 2015
SINGAPORE: More students in Singapore are getting perfect scores for the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma examination. A total of 66 Singapore students attained a perfect score of 45 points in the International Baccalaureate diploma exams this year, up from 50 last year.
They are just two out of over 1,000 students in Singapore that sat for the IB diploma examination in November 2014. Students taking the programme study six subjects such as history and a second language, as well as a Theory of Knowledge course – combining philosophy and religion. They also have to write a 4,000-word essay. To pass, students need to score 24 points.
Like in previous years, students in Singapore have fared well. The country’s passing rate improved from 94.83 per cent to 97.32 per cent this year.
The average score for Singapore students was 36.43 this year, higher than the global average of 29.94 points.
There are 21 schools in Singapore that offer the IB diploma programme. These include SOTA, ACS (I) and St Joseph’s Institution (SJI) International. For SOTA, a total of 112 students sat for the examination, with the school achieving a 100 per cent passing rate for the third year running. Close to half its students also obtained a score of between 40 and 45 points this year.
Meanwhile, 36 of this year’s perfect scorers came from ACS (I). St Joseph’s Institution (SJI) also saw its first batch of IB students graduate on Monday, with a 100 per cent passing rate. A total of 76 students from SJI had taken the examination last year.
– CNA/ac/el