The IB reviewed its procedure for awarding the grades after multiple complaints and this saw overall IB grades in Hong Kong improve (SCMP).
The city’s biggest international school group, the English Schools Foundation (ESF), as well as five other local and international schools, found their schools’ average scores had risen, and the number of top scorers had also increased significantly after the students’ grades were adjusted.
An algorithm was adopted to calculate this year’s grades based on students’ coursework after the unprecedented cancellation of May’s written exams globally due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But the results drew complaints from students globally who found their grades several points below the ones predicted by their teachers, with the lower marks affecting university options.
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