Language AB Initio
Group 2 subject
Assessments from 2020 to Present
Description
Language acquisition consists of two modern language courses—language ab initio and language B—designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where the language studied is spoken. Offered at SL only, language ab initio is a language acquisition course designed for students with no previous experience in—or very little exposure to—the target language. Language ab initio students develop their receptive, productive, and interactive skills while learning to communicate in the target language in familiar and unfamiliar contexts. Students develop the ability to communicate through the study of language, themes, and texts. There are five prescribed themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization, and sharing the planet. While the themes are common to both language ab initio and language B, the language ab initio syllabus additionally prescribes four topics for each of the five themes, for a total of 20 topics that must be addressed over the two years of the course.
Past Syllabuses
Grade Calculator
Language AB Initio is offered only at the SL level
Predicted Grade
50
Predicted Mark
Using the M24 TZ0 grade boundary
4
Graphs
Predicted Mark Probability Distribution
Historical Grade Boundaries
Language AB Initio is offered only at the SL level
Historical Grade Boundaries Graph for
SL English Language AB Initio
SL English Language AB Initio
SL English Language AB Initio | |||||||
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Boundary* | Markband | ||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
M19 TZ0 | 0 | 17 | 35 | 52 | 63 | 74 | 84 |
N19 TZ0 | 0 | 16 | 33 | 54 | 66 | 76 | 87 |
N20 TZ0 | 0 | 14 | 29 | 46 | 60 | 72 | 85 |
M21 TZ0 | 0 | 14 | 31 | 47 | 61 | 73 | 86 |
M22 TZ0 | 0 | 14 | 28 | 41 | 56 | 70 | 86 |
M23 TZ0 | 0 | 13 | 27 | 42 | 56 | 68 | 81 |
M24 TZ0 | 0 | 14 | 29 | 44 | 57 | 70 | 83 |
*Timezone 0 (Worldwide)
*Timezone 1 (North America, South America)
*Timezone 2 (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania)
NOTE: N20, M21, N21, M22, N22 grade boundaries were artificially low due to COVID. There were also
NOTE: Beware of using outdated grade boundaries. Many subjects have since updated their syllabus.