Latest round of IB Diploma Program results bring new group of global citizens from Notre Dame to the world with a number of perfect scores.
This week, 31 Notre Dame Prep students in the full International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program joined more than 170,000 students from around the world in receiving their IB-DP and IB-CP results. They are now part of a community of more than two million lifelong learners in 152 countries around the world.
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According to English and social studies teacher Katrina Sagert, who is the IB Diploma Program coordinator at NDPMA, despite operating once again under extraordinary circumstances, all 31 students in the Diploma Program performed amazingly well, with 28 receiving the diploma for a 90% overall passing rate.
Sagert said there were four from the junior cohort who tested and 64 other juniors and seniors who took individual courses.
“The students and teachers of this year’s total cohort faced the extraordinary challenges of school closures, remote learning and quarantines, and they have met every obstacle with resilience, flexibility, professionalism and grace. I could not be more proud of all of them.”
Olli-Pekka Heinonen, who is the director general of the International Baccalaureate, said yesterday in a news release issued by IB that the last 18 months have been incredibly challenging for schools around the world.
“COVID-19 has undermined much of what we had come to take for granted,” he said. “I salute the spirit and dedication of our students, teachers and schools throughout the world to our shared mission: education for a better world.”
According to Sagert, on a 1-7 grading scale, eight students from Notre Dame were awarded perfect 7s.
“This is the highest score a student can get, and it’s an exceptionally rare score,” she said. “This year, five of those 7 scores were from the math department, with two from our HL math course, the most challenging math class we offer. The other 7s came from biology, history and Spanish.”
Notre Dame Corporate President Fr. Leon Olszamowski, s.m., who was instrumental in first bringing IB to the school in 2007, was very pleased after hearing of the results this year.
“Congratulations to our young men and women and their teachers for their remarkable performance on IB assessments,” he said. “I am exceptionally proud of them, especially given the circumstances of the past year and a half.”
Heinonen added that the IB organization also understood the pressure that was put on the whole education system by COVID-19.
“We thank all our partners, including universities, for their support and understanding as we navigated our way through this challenging time. This year, the IB’s priority has been to provide students equal opportunity to progress after the global disruption due to COVID-19, regardless of whether students sat for the examinations or were assessed by the non-exam route. We have carefully considered the impact of the pandemic on all our students.”
The IB is a Geneva-based international educational body that offers four educational programs, one of which is the Diploma Program meant for students who are between 16 and 19 years of age. The scores of IB are widely accepted across various universities throughout the world.
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