A total of 2,442 students in Singapore who sat the IB diploma exams in November 2024. Their average score was 38.4, higher than the global average of 29.2.
The Switzerland-based IB organisation, which conducts the exams, said that diploma programme (DP) and career-related-programme (CP) students in Singapore received their results on Dec 17. There were 21,894 candidates globally.
Starting with the November 2024 session, the IB has brought forward the release of the exam results, which was held in January in previous years, to help students meet university application deadlines in December.
There are 22 schools in Singapore that offer IB programmes.
They include St Joseph’s Institution (SJI), ACS(I), Singapore Sports School, School of the Arts Singapore (Sota) and Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah. Students in the international school arms of ACS, SJI and Hwa Chong also collected their results.
All 452 students from ACS(I) – the first Singapore school to offer the IB diploma programme after it was accredited in 2005 – passed the exam. Their average score was 41.2 points, with 356 of them obtaining 40 points and above.
A total of 159 students from Sota sat the IB exam, with more than half scoring at least 38 points.
Of the 30 student-athletes at the Singapore Sports School who took the IB diploma exam, more than 75 per cent scored at least 38 points.
Both Sota and the Singapore Sports School declined to give the average score of its students.
A total of 283 students from SJI sat the DP exam, with an average score of 40 points. About six in 10 students attained at least 40 points.
SJI International’s cohort of 207 students all passed with an average score of 38 points, and 39 per cent of them attained at least 40 points.
Ever since it joined the IB programme in 2005, Singapore has consistently produced at least half of the perfect scorers worldwide.
Articles taken from Straits Times written by Elisha Tushara
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