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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of misunderstandings in this thread.

It is actually not true that you can’t take the IB test before senior year. The IB counselors are VERY stingy with this information, but I did get it out of them after reading on Reddit. If you are NOT part of the IB Diploma program, but are taking IB classes a la carte, you CAN take the IB test after junior year. However the counselors don’t want to deal with your kid. They prefer to push everyone in the diploma program and most parents aren’t as stubborn as to find out the ways to be flexible.

However, they may not recommend or alllow your sophomore to sign up for HL1, and instead push them to take SL1 sophomore year, HL1 junior year and HL2 senior year. This is the route my son went as I didn’t want to fight with the school, and he would have had to do DE senior year to take any higher math, and unfortunately DE isn’t as highly regarded by colleges as IB/AP, because there isn’t standardization across colleges.

In hindsight, it was a good decision, as the step up between Algebra 2 HN and IB Math AA HL1 is significant, and SL1 felt like the right step in between. No one suffers from having a better foundation in calculus.[/quote]

So did your son take IB analysis SL 1 and then Analysis HL 1 and 2 or did school make him take IB applications SL because it was/had to be different course?[/quote]

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