What you need to know about grade 12.

October 30, 2018 Considerations Exams and Registration Graduation and Diploma Post-Secondary Applications Scholarships

Considerations BALANCE Help us help you Organization Time Management Support Help us help you Keep an eye out for each other Keep your health foremost 5 academic courses- balanced approach– master timeline for IB assignments- key to success is time management– get help when/if needed- talk to me, teachers, Ms. Sarte, parents, friends– you are not alone in what the year holds- know what you want out of the next year

Exam Registration Review General Regulations – available to students on manageBAC Sign and return letter Understand general regs Understand ethical and academic expectations Understand CAS expectations Students completed exam selections in early October

Exam Registration New Candidate Session Number and PIN for end of October Students will need to submit tasks for assessment Students will need to check results in July Personal Code: permanent identifier with IBO—don’t lose it!

Invoice for IB Exams Registration fee paid last year unless DP Courses Subject fee is US$119 plus GST 5 exams? US$595 plus GST I will do conversion to CDN$ Invoices went home about 2 weeks ago Please pay as soon as possible

Graduation and Diploma Dual Track: MOE and IB MOE: 80 graduation credits Grad Transitions Fine Arts/Applied Skills Math 11 or 12, SS 11, English 10, Math 10, Science 10, Planning 10 English 12 and 4 grade 12 courses Provincial Numeracy assessment and English 12 Exam (January)

IB Students will earn the Diploma if: CAS requirements have been met Total points are 24 or more No “N” given in any subject, including TOK and EE (N meaning incomplete) No “E” awarded in TOK and/or EE (E meaning Fail) No 1 is awarded in any subject No more than two 2s No more than three 3s Scored more than 12 points on 3 HLs (4HLs, 3 highest count) Scored more than 9 points on 3 SLs (5 on 2 SLs) Has not been found guilty of academic misconduct

Post Secondary Application Do your research! The Universities set their admissions standards NOT IBO NOT MoE NOT ME!!

American Post-Secondary SAT? ACT? Essays? Leadership? Community? Money? Grade 11 marks Predicted grades Refs/recommendations Common Application Online Be aware of deadlines Give me and teachers PLENTY of time for reference letters

Canadian Post-Secondary Do your research! Specific faculties and programmes have specific requirements Transfer credit policies are different from university to university Consider ALL your options Don’t go where you aren’t wanted… Most are similar to UBC/SFU requirements but… DO YOUR RESEARCH!

Canadian Post Secondary Predicted Grades Completed at end of semester 1 Consider your entire academic performance PREDICTION! Prove us right! Prove us wrong! Do not pester, bribe or bully teachers. Students will complete a form for each university they want PGs for. I will give them to the students—they submit them! I will send your PGs to UBC and SFU. Students are responsible for the rest.

Canadian Post Secondary Register in May to have IB Final Grades sent to universities in July 3 inside North America Up to 3 outside North America Register to have MoE marks sent to universities Student Transcript Service– link on school website

UBC https://you.ubc.ca/applying- ubc/international-baccalaureate/ December 1 deadline for application to be considered for the Presidential Scholars Award and UBC Centennial Scholars Entrance Award. January 15 deadline for applications January 31 deadline for interim transcripts a.k.a predicted grades

UBC IB DIPLOMA STUDENTS DO NOT SELF REPORT GRADES I will send PREDICTED GRADES directly to UBC I will confirm directly with UBC if students have taken Phys 11/Chem 11 outside of DP and need it for admissions IB COURSES STUDENTS (certs) must self report as BC Dogwood and meet BC Dogwood deadlines

UBC Full diploma will only be considered on basis of diploma scores out of 42 Personal profile Competitive scores in range of 32-35 for sciences, 29-30 for arts… Final admission confirmation will include bonus points for TOK/EE

Bonus Points for TOK/EE

SFU https://www.sfu.ca/students/admission/admissio n-requirements/fall-2019/international- baccalaureate.html December 3 deadline for scholarship consideration January 31 deadline for admissions for Fall 2019 February 8 deadline for Beedie supplementals, etc February 28 deadline for BC 12 Dogwood self- reporting and for interim transcripts (PGs)

SFU FULL DIPLOMA students DO NOT SELF REPORT grades; I will send predicted grades directly to SFU- you send BC transcript if needed! If predicted below 28, will be asked to self report % grades as BC Dogwood students 28 predicted points for early admission; 31 for applied sciences (subject to change) Earn a diploma (24+ final) and get 30 credits

U Vic https://www.uvic.ca/future- students/undergraduate/admissions/high- school/ib/index.php February 28 application deadline Self report: IB diploma- self report predicted grades? Or %? 29-31 points will get conditional early acceptance; confirmed on final grades Earn diploma with 4 or higher in subject scores for advanced credit, up to full one year

Scholarships Ms. Campbell and Ms. Truax head up our scholarship committee Oct 17 Scholarship meeting #1 SFU entrance scholarships (Oct 1-Dec 3) UBC entrance scholarships (Oct 1- Dec 1) References and recommendations Be clear what you need and from whom

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