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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish that admins would encourage teachers to a better job prepping DCI juniors and seniors not only for the IB language exams in the other subjects, along with corresponding AP exams. We've been buying our own IBD subject prep guides, Secrets Preps, Mometrix, Oxford Study guides etc. We've also been buying AP prep guides. The school could easily make these latest guides available to students. DCI's working assumption is that simply earning the Diploma is enough for high performers. We're shooting for a points total in the high 30s+ because we're looking at colleges abroad with published totals cut-offs in admissions. The program would be higher caliber if the adults in charge cared about students earning high IB exam scores.[/quote]

“We’re shooting” is loony tunes. Seriously. I remember signing up for AP exams myself when my school didn’t offer corresponding courses and asking my teachers for suggested textbooks or checking books out of the library to study for AP exams. No SAT prep classes - just studying by myself. Yes, times have changed - but you are not shooting for anything - your kid may be. Teaching your kid to advocate for themselves, to study without force-feeding them the material is a critical life skill. Having a crappy teacher or guidance counselor and navigating around that is also a part of approaching adulthood. You don’t need a guidance counselor’s permission to sign up for an exam. [/quote]

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