With two more months of school left, International Baccalaureate students at Greeley West  are facing at time crunch to get their Internal Assessments turned in. Every IB senior has to turn in an IA for all six subjects. IB teachers informed their students of the requirements for each project at the beginning of the year.  Deadlines for the assessment vary, but most deadlines just recently passed.

According to Greeley West’s IB coordinator Amy Zulauf, the IA’s are very important. “If a student does not turn in their internal assessment, the teacher is forced to put in an F in the gradebook. This means that the IB student will be unable to get their IB diploma because they didn’t complete the program,” Zulauf said.

Although this seems very intimidating, there are many benefits to completing these projects. Senior Jessica Cha stated, “The IAs definitely help you prepare for college because the IA is a college sized paper, so writing multiple at the same time really helps you. They make you be really wary of plagiarism and they taught me how to go in depth on a research paper.”

Zulauf believes that IAs are more beneficial than other year-end tests.  Unlike an AP final, you have more control over your grade having to do the internal assessment within the actual class structure.