In standard year 12, students can drop maths, dodge languages and use the scaling system to build their dream ATAR. In the International Baccalaureate, there is nowhere to hide.
Long considered an elite academic boot camp, the Geneva-born qualification is quietly booming in Australia. A record 3100 students have lined up for this year’s gruelling diploma exams – part of a 22 per cent surge in IB offerings over the past decade that reached well beyond high-fee senior schools and into primary school classrooms.
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