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The Internationl Baccalaureate (IB) is a demanding course, leading to a diploma that is accepted world-wide as a qualification for university entry. Students study six subjects, one each from six subject groups, three of them at Higher Level and three at Standard Level, although some subjects are only available at Standard Level. The six subject groups are:
- Language A
a literature course, in the students' mother tongue or best language, including a world literature component – if the school has no teacher for a language, the course can be taken 'self-taught' at SL only - Language B
a foreign language – courses are offered at three levels: A2 for students who are (almost) bilingual, B for progressors and ab initio for beginners. - Humanities
Economics, Geography, History, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Thought, World Religions - Natural Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Design Technology, Environmental Systems, Physics - Mathematics
including Further Mathematics and a 'terminal' course, Mathematical Studies - Art, Music or Theatre Arts, or any subject from one of the other groups.
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Group 2
- Japanese SL ab initio
- Japanese Grammar: Summary of the grammar required for the course. (KA)
- Kanji Map: All the kanji required for the course, arranged by meaning. (KA)
- Vocabulary: All the words on the IB syllabus, in Japanese alphabetical order. (KA)
- Vocabulary lists and flashcard program:
Displays vocabulary lists, lesson by lesson, for various popular text books, as well as for the IB-course SL Japanese ab initio. Vocabulary from the lessons in those textbooks can be practised in various ways -- K > J, K > E and E > J -- using the method of on-screen flashcards. (KA) - End of Term Exam, Nov 01. (KA)
- "Genki": vocabulary list and flashcard script (KA)
- "Genki": exercises for all the lessons, for the IB course (KA)
Group 3
- Economics
- Try EconWiki (based on PhpWiki, simple but limited) or econ:start (based on DokuWiki, still easy but more fancy): a wiki is a space for people to work collaboratively on the internet.
Group 4
- Biology
- There are tests on Respiration and on Ecology in the ac internal area of the website; the scores are recorded for the teacher to view. (JMM)
Group 5
- Mathematics HL
- Problems from past tests:
A Collection of problems (65 pages, some with answers) that I have made for HL and SL Methods tests and exams, and pages of exercises for further practice in areas in which the 'IB text book' is lacking. As .pdf files that can be displayed directly, and in .tex and .dvi formats (requires (La)TeX) in self-extracting files. (KA) - TeX and its friends:
Explanation of how to install and use the generic type-setting system (La)TeX that is standard for academic work at universities. (KA) - Excerpts from KA's Notes, in .pdf format, by Itay Neeman:
Differentiation
Integration
Differential Equations
Probability
Vectors
Complex Numbers - Beginning of KA's own notes:
I. Statistics
VI. Integration
VII. Probability
- Problems from past tests:
Other
- Extended Essay
- (La)TeX:
Explanation of how to access and use the generic type-setting system (La)TeX that is now available on College computers; updated 06 Aug 03. (KA)
- (La)TeX:
- Theory of Knowledge
- AC Theory of Knowledge Materials and Links (put together by AB)
- Theory of Knowledge notes:
11 'chapters' of philosophically oriented notes for the IB-course, with outlines, quoted passages and classroom activities. (KA)