DP+Assessment+at+DCS

IBDP Assessment @ DCS
__ Y12 Assessments That Contribute To Your Attainment Grade In Your Report __ Paper 1: 1hr for HL and 45 min for SL: multiple choice questions. Paper 2: 2 hr 15 min for HL and 1hr 15 min for SL: structured questions. ||
 * **// What type of assessment? //** || End of topic tests || End of year examination ||
 * **// When? //** || Usually at the end of a larger topic or related smaller topics. At least two tests in terms 1 and 2. || End of the year.
 * **// What is assessed? //** |||| Knowledge and understanding of the science ideas, concepts and skills learned in the topics covered by the test and the use of these ideas in novel situations. ||
 * **// How much does this type of assessment contribute to your report grade? //** |||| The Term 1 grade is based on the cumulative topic test average, of all topic tests during Term 1.

The Term 2 grade is based on the cumulative topic test average, of all topic tests during Term 1 and Term 2.

The Term 3 grade has the following weighting: 50% end of year examination and 50% topic tests over the three terms.

n.b. Any topic test taken too late in the term to contribute to the report grade will contribute instead to the following term or year. ||

__ Y13 Assessments That Contribute To Your Attainment Grade In Your Report __ Paper 1: 1hr for HL and 45 minutes for SL: multiple choice questions. Paper 2: 2 hr 15 min for HL and 1hr 15 for SL: structured questions. ||
 * **// What type of assessment? //** || End of topic tests || Mock examination ||
 * **// When? //** || Usually at the end of a larger topic or related smaller topics. At least two end of topic tests in term 1. || At start of term 2.
 * **// What is assessed? //** |||| Knowledge and understanding of the science ideas, concepts and skills learned in the topics covered by the test and the use of these ideas in novel situations. ||
 * **// How much does this type of assessment contribute to your report grade? //** |||| The Term 1 grade has the same composition as the Y12 Term 3 grade (50% end of year 12 examination and 50% all topic tests taken during the course (Y12 and during Term 1).

The mock examination grade in term 2 has the following weighting: > The Term 2 grade has the following weighting: 50 % mock examination, 30% average of all topic tests in the course and 20% internal assessment.
 * Paper 1: 38 %
 * Paper 2: 62 %

n.b. Any topic test taken too late in the term to contribute to the report grade will contribute instead to the following term. ||

__ Grade Boundaries __
 * Grade || 7  ||  6  ||  5  ||  4  ||  3  ||  2  ||  1  ||
 * Percentage || 80  ||  68  ||  55  ||  43  ||  30  ||  17  ||  0  ||

N.B. grade boundaries maybe adjusted for some assessments, e.g. mock examination boundaries are likely to change to reflect the difficulty of the exam.

__ Internal Assessment __ During the course you will carry out a range of investigations. For some of those investigations you will write a lab reports that will be assessed out of 6 for one, two or all three of the following criteria:
 * design (D)
 * data collection and processing (DCP)
 * conclusion and evaluation (CE)

A one-off assessment of personal skills (PS), also out of 6, is made during the group 4 project. Manipulate skills (MS), again out of 6, is an assessment of how proficient you are at carrying out complex lab tasks is made summatively over the course. At the end of the course the best two marks against D, DCP and CE together with the marks from PS and MS contribute to your final grade in Biology.

Internally these marks do not contribute to any report grades in Y12. Internal assessment marks do though contribute to the grade of your final report in Y13.

__ Assessment For Learning __ These are assessments such as homework, research tasks, posters, worksheets, presentations, ICT tasks and other types of tasks. Such informal assessments will not always be scored or graded but are very likely to result in a comment from the teacher emphasizing the strengths about your learning and suggesting how you can make further progress to improve your attainment in the subject.