I'm currently doing both the IB and my country's A-levels, which is a lot to be honest. We recently looked at sample Math, Biology and Chemistry SAT and couldn't belive how easy they were, my best friend gazed at it and said "only multiple-choice?" Our A-levels are at least as hard as Germany's A-levels (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg; for the other Bundesländer's A-levels, Austria's is harder) and a little easier than Switzerland's A-levels I'd say. If you attend a Gymnasium, you'll only just pass if you don't study most of the time, but for other schools it's easier. Not getting into the complexity of the Austrian school system here though...IB vs APSource picture
I'm curious to find out whether any of you did the AP (advanced placement) or IB (International Baccalaureate) programme, graduated high school regularly or did your country's (or the UK's) A-levels.
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I did/am doing IB (International Baccalaureate)
I did/am doing AP (Advanced Placement)
I only graduated/am graduating high school in the US
I did my A-levels in the UK
I did my country's A-levels
I did neither of these
Other (specify)
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Did you do any special high school programme (AP, IB, ... )?
I kinda skipped 2/3 of high school lol, I competed in physics Olympiad, then went to university in 2016 to study engineering at my father's suggestion, then I switched to math because I couldn't cope with the lack of abstraction in engineering program. My education background was actually full of holes (biology, chemistry, literature etc.) it's kinda hard to classify in the formal systems 😂. I would have had similar reaction to your friend lol MCQs are rather limited in what they test and only suitable for testing trivia knowledge.
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