Justyna McMillan
justynam@isb.ac.th
Below you can find an excerpt from the most recent communication from the IB about the May 2023 exam session. The IB has confirmed that students will complete all assessment components and none of the Assessment Adaptations for May 2021 and 2022 sessions will apply. However, the IB will continue to closely monitor the situation, receive feedback from schools and adjust grade boundaries for this cohort, to help mitigate the impact of the pandemic, on student learning and preparedness for the IB exams.
“For May 2023, our expectation is that nearly all our students will be able to take our examinations and will be awarded grades based on the full range of assessment components they have completed for each subject. For the assessment sessions in 2023 we will continue to support students through mitigations in the grade boundary setting process….
…we anticipate that disruption to learning will impact student performance in 2023 examinations to some extent. Grade boundary setting will take this impact into account. Therefore, grade boundaries for May 2023 examinations will not necessarily be the same as those of May 2019.”
IB Communication, March 2022
If you would like to learn more about this decision, HERE is a video link to the IB Director of Teaching and Learning, Nicole Bien, discussing the plans for May 2023.