Design Technology - International School of Duesseldorf

ISD Diploma
In grades nine and ten the MYP overlaps with the requirements for the ISD
diploma and leads into the IB diploma in grades eleven and twelve.
Normally, a 9th grader is scheduled for ten courses, a tenth grader for nine or
ten.
To be awarded the ISD diploma a student must have
• completed four years of education in grades 9-12 or their equivalents.
• successfully completed ninth and tenth grades (at ISD this normally
means having followed years 4 and 5 of the IBMYP, including at least
three options) with no more than two final academic achievement
grades below 3 in either year.
• earned a minimum total of 40 points over grades 11 and 12, with no
more than four final academic achievement grades below 3, of which
no more than two may be earned in 12 th grade.
• successfully completed the CAS programme during each year of
attendance (G9-12) at ISD. 1
In addition each student should have:
• taken at least one year of mainstream English
• taken three consecutive years of the same foreign language
• studied German to a minimum competency level equivalent to ISD's
"Advanced German" (normally three years).
There may, under exceptional circumstances, be students for whom these
requirements might not be appropriate. In these cases the principal will determine
whether or not the student has met the conditions under which an ISD diploma can
still be awarded.
IB DIPLOMA
The International Baccalaureate Diploma is offered as a supplement to the
ISD diploma.
The IB diploma curriculum consists of a comprehensive and rigorous two-year
program, normally undertaken in the 11th & 12th grades (in exceptional cases
in grades 12 and 13). Based on the educational pattern of no single country, it
is a deliberate compromise between the specialization required in some
countries and the breadth and depth preferred in others. Since its inception in
the late 1960's, the IB diploma has become a symbol of academic integrity
and intellectual promise, and is accepted widely throughout the world as a
university entrance qualification.
IB diploma candidates must pass examinations in six areas, including
Language A (best or native language); an additional language; individuals and
societies; experimental sciences; mathematics; and a sixth subject, an
elective. Of the six examinations, three must be taken at the higher level and
three at the standard level.
1 This requirement only becomes operative when a CAS program has been set up in grades 6-12.
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