This is a real problem for getting into University if that is the chosen path. I know of someone who's average was 92 or 94 and couldn't get into U of C last sept and had to wait until Jan of this year.
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Why is that unlikely? IB student grades are adjusted.
Well it must be true and is totally information they’d pass on to applicants’ parents. I imagine the Acceptance letter read something like: ‘normally your grades wouldn’t get you in, but we add 5% to grades of Alberta applicants because grade inflation is rampant in BC and definitely not in Alberta specifically so we are pleased to admit you for the Fall Semester…’
If you need your grades adjusted to get into university you probably weren’t a strong candidate to begin with.
Even with your 92 in Phys ed
That said, it does appear to be a thing and has been openly reported on
https://globalnews.ca/news/4405495/w...nflation-list/
Redneck 'berta has diploma exams, something other provinces don't have.
Man you guys are going to be in for a treat when your kids get older :rofl:
Sigh. A worker in UBC admissions told them after the fact.
Take it for what it's worth. But I can tell you with absolute certainty that IP and AP grades are adjusted at many universities. If you disagree with me, feel free to contact the principal at Churchill. Try not to creep her out too much.
And yeah, if you get a 7 in an IB course, the U of C adjusts it to 100%, no matter what the actual percentage was.
My kid just got a report card (grade 8) th Ann 85 average and he still failed his learners test. I'm not even sure he's mine anymore..
Don't universities publish acceptance statistics? Keep it relevant for in-province only? Or is that only a thing for med school?
I know nothing of High school here and my wife rarely talks about her school days, but if I had applied to University in Scotland after high school, they'd be looking at what I scored on the exact same exam papers as anyone else in the country who had sat it.
So even though there's a provincial curriculum, not everyone sits the same exam in each subject?
Do you sit exams at age 16 (mandatory), 17 and 18 (electives) here?
Exams are racist
Provincial exams in grades 6, 9 and 12 only.
Mrs.MightyVag got good enough grades in some dirty Sasky school that she was exempt from taking their Provincial Exams.
I took my provincial exams in BC back when the scholarship component was an extra 1hr exam after the exam. When I won the scholarships, I waited until they excpired to go to university. Because I'm white and it was my white guilt way of giving back to the IndigiQueers.
*I just learned that IndigiQueers is a thing and somehow neither racist or sexist because a very prominent employer in the region decided all their employees should participate in some sort of horse shit craft to recognize whatever the fuck an "IndigiQueer" is. You know, instead of working.