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The IB Diploma: Content, Structure and Requirements
The IB Diploma is taught continuously over Grades 11 and 12. It provides a rigorous
educational experience across six academic subjects allowing for focus and depth to occur
in the Higher Level subjects and breadth to occur in the Standard Level subjects.
The Diploma Programme Hexagon & the Framework of the IB Diploma
Course Structure
Six academic subjects studied over two years, one to be selected from each of
Groups 1 to 5, with the sixth subject from any Group. Three of these subjects
must be studied at the Higher Level (HL) and three at the Standard Level (SL).
Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
Extended Essay (EE)
Creativity, Action and Service (CAS)
Note: It is possible to take two languages from Group 1 (and none from Group 2)
leading to a bilingual diploma.
The Trans-disciplinary subject (Environmental Systems and Societies) can be
taken as a Group 3 or a Group 4 subject, or it can be taken as both Group 3 and
Group 4. These exceptions are further explained later.
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