The document summarizes the changes to the International Baccalaureate (IB) exams for May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It states that 71% of schools have confirmed they can safely administer the traditional written exams. For students who take the exams, IB will allow schools to request different grade distributions if a student's performance differs from predictions. Alternatively, schools can defer exams to November 2021 or May 2022 at no additional cost. IB will also accommodate the disruption from the pandemic by designing more generous grade boundaries.

1. 71%
THE IB CHANGES
FOR MAY 2021
For the May 2021 IB exams, based on
a survey report almost 71% of schools
(with 61% students) have confirmed
that they can safely administer the IB
exams, which gives us a cogent
evidence that many schools are
adopting the traditional exam
pathway.
Route 1: Written Exams
In case of disparity between a
student’s performance from the
predicted grade distributions, IB
would allow schools to raise a
request for a different grade
distribution substantiating their
claims.
Thanks to its extensive
coursework IB would be
transparent enough in
distributing the grades between
the students and schools for a self
and comparative evaluation.
In such cases, the score would be
based on the combined
component of internal
assessment coursework and the
teacher-predicted grades.
Route 2: Non-Exam
Route
It is left to the schools to consider a
defer of the May 2021 exam to the
November 2021 or May 2022
session with no additional cost or
with a full refund from the IBO for
rescheduling their presence in the
May 2021 series.
The IB grading
system, May 2021
IB has confirmed of reasonably
accommodating generosity in
designing the grade boundaries,
for the simple fact that there has
been involuntary interruption in
the complete teaching-learning
process due to the pandemic.
The IB grading
system, May 2021
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