ESF produces eight top scorers in IB exams
The English Schools Foundation has recorded eight top scorers in the International Baccalaureate Diploma – its second-best tally of high-fliers in the Genevabased exams.
[First published on 08 July, 2014] The English Schools Foundation has recorded eight top scorers in the International Baccalaureate Diploma – its second-best tally of high-fliers in the Genevabased exams.
And St Paul's Co-educational College in Mid-Levels achieved an impressive feat, with 61 per cent of its 23-pupil IB class scoring 40 out of 45 marks.
The class is only the second batch to have taken the curriculum at St Paul's. Just 6 per cent worldwide scored within this range in the May exams last year, the International Baccalaureate Organisation said.
At the foundation, the eight pupils from five schools would account for 5.2 per cent of the 154 top scorers recorded globally last year, the organisation said.
Twelve from the ESF attained the perfect score two years ago.
"We are most proud of the IB students who have found the diploma tough but have stuck with it and at the end have come and achieved the full diploma," ESF student attainment manager David Kirby said yesterday.
ESF had 937 pupils sitting the exams this year, a 10 per cent rise from 850 in the previous year. IB bilingual diplomas would be awarded to 135 pupils, up 29 per cent from 105 the year before.
