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OpenSecret:

Hey all! I'm from this year's graduating Y6 class (just finished my exams this week!) Feel free to ask me any questions you may have especially about life in Y5/Y6 and ill be glad to answer to the best I can!

My DS psle t score is way below expectation.how shld he prepare for the entrance test for IB at sec 2 level? Any advice is much appreciated.he is a reasonably intelligent and an extrovert child consistently scoring in 90's in maths and sci during his primary.

I believe the 2 most important factors would be the interview as well as his Y1/Y2 average percentage for his exams. What i heard from my friends who came in at Y3 was that it was necessary to think carefully about why he would wish to offer the IB over the traditional O/A level track as most of the interview questions are structured around this topic. Other questions would be his commitment in his CCAs, etc.

For exam results in Y1/Y2, I heard that any score about 70% average would stand a reasonable chance at moving up to IP, but I know of people who did manage to get in with 60+% perhaps due to CCA or excellent interviews

ngl2010:

Lexis and Autolycus, does it mean it is better to pass HMT in year 6 instead of year 5?


And, no point to take third language, right?

Just to add on to what Autolycus mentioned, yup HMT does not build anythng towards your IB grade, but rather give you the option of selecting a foreign Ab initio language instead of the usual Mandarin B SL which majority of us took. One thing to take note is unlike primary school where you take both HMT and MT concurrently, in Y1 to Y4 you take only HMT and not MT which may pull down your points as compared to other students which are doing MT.

When I was in Year 1 - Year 3 (dropped HMT in Y4), I realised that HMT constantly dragged down my overall points (the one out of 45) as I could only manage to get 5 points all the time even with effort put in. Compared with students which took MT and got 6 or even 7, this kind of put me in a disadvantage which was why i decided to voluntarily drop HMT in year 4 in order to concentrate on the rest of my subjects (since I planned to do mandarin B in Y5 anyway).

Hey all! I'm from this year's graduating Y6 class (just finished my exams this week!) Feel free to ask me any questions you may have especially about life in Y5/Y6 and ill be glad to answer to the best I can!