IB results 2023

Hi I am in the same boat - I had a 6.4 as average in my school with predicted grades between 6 and 7 and tanked in the IB exams. Missed both my offers - one rejected and the other still waiting... My school sent my TOK for regrading but came back with the same mark. Very frustrating and regret having done the IB. Biggest mistake.

Hey all, I've been wanting to open a thread on IB results this year, from May 2023. I recently got back my results, and I ended up missing both my main and insurance choices by 1 mark in my HL classes. Remarking, all three of my HLs, none of them went up, despite being close.

Thank you so much for sharing! Are you thinking of re-sitting the exams in the "worst case scenario"? Many ppl tell me to go to Clearance but I find it such a waste of opportunity in my case..

Interesting to hear that your school knew at least two years ago, in the midst of Covid in full swing, the intention of IB commission of year 2023 to grade according to the 2019 standards.. Amazing!
No, it was not 220+ish, it was 270.

were the grade boundaries for you guys higher than 2019 levels??

Close but not the same nor higher than 2019 levels.

I'm guessing that scores are moderated in the A Levels, in addition to setting of grade boundaries?

Good luck with your results in 2 weeks!

So sorry. What are your firm and insurance choice conditions for HLs and overall IB score? Which universities are these? Some universities can be snobbish and would frown on re-takes. So please, please check.

With your near miss in your HLs, had you appealed to your firm and insurance choice?

1) Do you feel like you were graded justly this year? Especially considering that year 2023 had so few 45s (something like 150 this year, compared to 700 and 1000 the last two years, and even in the 300s before COVID)

My school prepared us way ahead, as far back as the beginning of Grade 11 to be mindful of IB's intention to remove all grade inflation, and that we were all going to be graded internally using the 2019 grade boundaries or higher. So for example, to get a 7 in HL Chem, it was 92-94%. In other words, we all had to over-achieve. I therefore, feel that the grading were as expected, not unfair. As for the number of 45s, 179 only for M23 is brutal. It was not 300s pre-Covid. It was 220+ ish.

3) Do you think that A-levels this year are going to be graded as harshly as the IB, or do you think its just us?

It is left to be seen. It depends on the A levels cohort. There can only be so many A* for each subject, so they will also be moderated. The universities will have a serious problem if everyone gets top grades because the universities would have over-offered considering the low % of students meeting their predicted every year. There is the stats somewhere, and it's very common to go into Clearing.

Just a point on your last response. They have made it clear that there is no qouta on the number of A*, A's etc, this is a fallacy (you can research this if you like - also on Gov website). So grades given based purely on the boundaries no matter how many sit within those boundaries.
There is also the issue that lower offers may have been set to overseas students in order to get thier higher fee payments into the coffers. This might have the effect of Unis not excepting slightly lower achieved grades for UK applicants.

I think it is only a matter of different tools used to achieve the same outcome. I had actually not mentioned about the usage of quota.

I read in the Guardian that for this year "To get back to 2019 levels, however, the percentage of A*s will have to fall from 14.6% last year to 7.8%, meaning 59,000 fewer A*s and 36,000 fewer As, according to the Centre for Education and Employment Research (CEER) at the University of Buckingham."

With this objective in mind (as what we IB students have seen in our own May 2023 results), the removal of grade inflation would upset a lot of students and their families.