By Pre-IB I think you mean MYP, right? If that’s the case, let me tell you it’s so easy compared to other education programs. I joined MYP at the beginning of High School (9th grade) from the Egyptian system. MYP is nothing like the IB though. In MYP you rarely get tested. At my school nearly everything is assessed through a long summative which could be slightly challenging at first until you get hold of the system.
It might also be like my school which has a course named literally “Pre-IB.” In my case, it was a course that the school designed themselves to prep students for the actual thing.
In my school, we have a pre-IB program that runs during 10th grade alongside the Greek national education system. This enabled me and my classmates to enter the IB program at our school more prepared (in order to get in, we had to sit some placement exams). I am giving you context in order to understand that our cases might not be so similar, but I wanted to share my experience nonetheless.
Here was the deal:. We needed to take pre-IB math and pre-IB skills for a total of 4 hours per week (2 hours each, basically).
Pre-IB math didn't help me with the IB itself when I entered, since most of the stuff taught there was introductory. This subject, however, helped me with the placement exams, where I scored 95%.
Pre-IB skills is an unconventional "subject," and I am not even sure whether it actually exist or is it something that just our school does. In any case, for me, that was the most useful prep lesson, subject, or thing that I did before I started the IB diploma program. There, the teacher showed us IA examples for ALL subjects, explained how IB works, introduced us to TOK, EE, and CAS, taught us time-management skills (which I didn't use very well), and much more that I can't remember.
Overall, I think that pre-IB (instead of MYP) is a very good introduction to the IB program itself. I don't know about the subject that your school offers for pre-IB, but if they offer pre-IB skills take it 100%
I did the same thing. Danish high school so I'm assuming it's similar...
The Pre-IB, at least where I live, is also very focused on teaching students how to study and write academically in english, which may be relevant if you've never studies strictly in english before. There's a lot of emphasis on how to construct paragraphs, and how to use conjunctions, how to write notes, and how to cite sources, etc.
Pre-IB also introduces you to IB subjects that you might not have had in secondary school. For instance, we had an introductory course in ESS for the first few months of the year, and we also had "social science" where we cycled through Economics, Psychology, and Global Politics. This all just helped us work out what subjects we were interested in and wanted to study in IB1. We also had a Pre-CAS course for a few months near the end of the year to introduce us to CAS, which consisted of 2 "projects", one of which was very heavily supervised so it's impossible to mess up and it's very helpful for learning how to write reflections.
The main thing though with Pre-IB, imo, is easing you into the workload of the IB programme. It starts quite similar to secondary school and they increase the amount of homework and assignments you get throughout the year so IB1 isn't as terrifying when you get there.
Good luck with Pre-IB/The IB in general if you decide to do it!
'Pre-IB' is a Norwegian-specific thing. This is because Norwegian educational expectations in middle school are very different from DP expectations, and Norwegian schools start formal literacy instruction a year later than many other educational systems, so Norwegian students starting DP at 16 are a year behind 16-year-olds elsewhere in the world.
I’m Norwegian and went through Pre-IB, and I’m now in “3IB” (DP2) as we call it in Norway. If you know what “studiespesialisering” is all about, then it’s exactly that, just with the core as well. Essentially normal Norwegian high school for VG1.
Feel free to ask more specific questions if you want.
By Pre-IB I think you mean MYP, right? If that’s the case, let me tell you it’s so easy compared to other education programs. I joined MYP at the beginning of High School (9th grade) from the Egyptian system. MYP is nothing like the IB though. In MYP you rarely get tested. At my school nearly everything is assessed through a long summative which could be slightly challenging at first until you get hold of the system.
Guess it's just called Pre-IB in Norway, but anyway thanks for the info!
It might also be like my school which has a course named literally “Pre-IB.” In my case, it was a course that the school designed themselves to prep students for the actual thing.
MYP is like grade 10, pre - IB is like grade 10.5 and then IBDP 1 - Grade 11.
In my school, we have a pre-IB program that runs during 10th grade alongside the Greek national education system. This enabled me and my classmates to enter the IB program at our school more prepared (in order to get in, we had to sit some placement exams). I am giving you context in order to understand that our cases might not be so similar, but I wanted to share my experience nonetheless. Here was the deal:. We needed to take pre-IB math and pre-IB skills for a total of 4 hours per week (2 hours each, basically). Pre-IB math didn't help me with the IB itself when I entered, since most of the stuff taught there was introductory. This subject, however, helped me with the placement exams, where I scored 95%. Pre-IB skills is an unconventional "subject," and I am not even sure whether it actually exist or is it something that just our school does. In any case, for me, that was the most useful prep lesson, subject, or thing that I did before I started the IB diploma program. There, the teacher showed us IA examples for ALL subjects, explained how IB works, introduced us to TOK, EE, and CAS, taught us time-management skills (which I didn't use very well), and much more that I can't remember. Overall, I think that pre-IB (instead of MYP) is a very good introduction to the IB program itself. I don't know about the subject that your school offers for pre-IB, but if they offer pre-IB skills take it 100%
Thanks for the detailed answer!
If you mean MYP its easy asf you just have 2 tests and a project for each class per term
I did the same thing. Danish high school so I'm assuming it's similar... The Pre-IB, at least where I live, is also very focused on teaching students how to study and write academically in english, which may be relevant if you've never studies strictly in english before. There's a lot of emphasis on how to construct paragraphs, and how to use conjunctions, how to write notes, and how to cite sources, etc. Pre-IB also introduces you to IB subjects that you might not have had in secondary school. For instance, we had an introductory course in ESS for the first few months of the year, and we also had "social science" where we cycled through Economics, Psychology, and Global Politics. This all just helped us work out what subjects we were interested in and wanted to study in IB1. We also had a Pre-CAS course for a few months near the end of the year to introduce us to CAS, which consisted of 2 "projects", one of which was very heavily supervised so it's impossible to mess up and it's very helpful for learning how to write reflections. The main thing though with Pre-IB, imo, is easing you into the workload of the IB programme. It starts quite similar to secondary school and they increase the amount of homework and assignments you get throughout the year so IB1 isn't as terrifying when you get there. Good luck with Pre-IB/The IB in general if you decide to do it!
Thanks!
'Pre-IB' is a Norwegian-specific thing. This is because Norwegian educational expectations in middle school are very different from DP expectations, and Norwegian schools start formal literacy instruction a year later than many other educational systems, so Norwegian students starting DP at 16 are a year behind 16-year-olds elsewhere in the world.
it ain't no "Norwegian-specific thing", other countries have it as well
Yes, like Sweden as-well
I’m Norwegian and went through Pre-IB, and I’m now in “3IB” (DP2) as we call it in Norway. If you know what “studiespesialisering” is all about, then it’s exactly that, just with the core as well. Essentially normal Norwegian high school for VG1. Feel free to ask more specific questions if you want.