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Many of the successful<br />
Year 11 students will now<br />
start the International<br />
Baccalaureate Diploma<br />
Programme at GIS.<br />
This year, several Year 9 students took their first ever IGCSE (usually it’s Year 11s who<br />
take them). They passed their IGCSE English as a Second Language (ESL) tests. One of<br />
them, Shilpi Dhar, (above, left) became the youngest ever student in the 20-year history of<br />
GIS to gain an IGCSE qualification.<br />
IB News<br />
Star GIS students gain IB Diploma<br />
Talented students from GIS celebrated excellent examination<br />
results – which included some remarkable personal triumphs.<br />
A total of 14 GIS students who took the International<br />
Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) have been<br />
awarded the full Diploma, including one student who returned<br />
to re-sit an examination. This overall pass rate of 78 per cent<br />
is in line with the global average, a sign that GIS is continuing<br />
to meet international standards. It also shows a slight increase<br />
from last year’s results.<br />
The grades do not always tell the complete story though, and<br />
that is the case with one student. It was a tale of triumph over<br />
adversity for Korean student Kyoung Jun Lee (Paul), who
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