Throughout the years our students have managed excellent results both in Local Examinations as well as International ones:
University of Costa Rica Admission Examinations Students placed : |
- 1st in 1995, 1997 and 2001
- 3rd in 1994
- 5th in 1996 and 1998
- 4th in 2003
- 9th in 2000 and 2007
- 11th in 2005 and 2014
- 13th in 2013
- 4th, 7th and 20th places in 2015
- 10th and 27th places in 2016
- 8th place in 2018
- 5th, 14th and 20th place in 2019
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Technological University of Costa Rica Admission Examinations Students placed : |
- 1st in 2003
- 27th in 2013
- 4th, 5th, 7th and 30th in 2014
- 29th in 2016
- 2nd and 27th in 2017
- 21st and 27th in 2018
- 25th in 2015 and 2019
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Placement and Scholarships to leading Universities: |
- 1998 – Anthony Varilly: partial scholarship to Harvard
, Catherine Darke, obtained a place at Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1998 – Rhys Wolff: full scholarship to the University of Toronto, Canada
- 2000 – Alfonso Gomez: obtained a place at University College, London
- 2001 – Patrick Varilly: scholarship to MIT
- 2003 – Marisol Valerio: full scholarship to UBC, Canada
- * Both Anthony Varilly (‘98) and Alfonso Gomez (‘00) continued as post-graduate
students at the University of Cambridge, England
- 2009 – Manuel Nivia: full scholarship to New York University, Abu Dhabi
- 2010 – Virginie Fostroy: partial scholarship to UBC, Canada
- 2011 – Claire Hennig and Andrés Rodríguez: full scholarship to New York University, Abu Dhabi
- 2013 – Anna Hennig and Alejandro Mora: full scholarship to New York University, Abu Dhabi
- 2016 – Paula Mora: full scholarship to New York University, Abu Dhabi
- 2017 – Daniel Nivia: full scholarship to New York University, Abu Dhabi
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International Baccalaureate Diploma: (Maximum score in IB Diploma = 45 points) |
- 1998 – Best overall results in the Latin American Region (IBLA):
6 students with 40 points or higher, average 35 points in the Diploma programme.
Best Individual result in the World – 45 points plus maximum points for 7th subject
- 1999 – 3 students 40 points or higher. Average 33.4 points. All students passed Diploma
- 2001 – 2 students with 40 points or higher. Average 33 points in the Diploma programme.
Best Individual result in the World – 45 points plus maximum points for 7th subject
- 2002 – 3 students with 40 points or higher. Average 35 points in the Diploma programme.
- 2003 – Best individual result in Latin America with a maximum score of 45 points.
3 students with 40 points or higher. Average 34 points in the Diploma programme.
- 2004 – 1 student with 40 points or higher. Average 30 points in the Diploma programme.
- 2005 – All 34 students passed the Diploma. Average 33 points. 1 student with 41 points
- 2006 – All 34 Diploma students passed. Average 32 points. 1 student with 41 points
- 2007 – All 36 Diploma students passed. Average 32 points. 1 student with 42 points
- 2008 – 45 out of 46 students obtained the Diploma. Average 30 points (same group of students produced lower than average IGCSE results in 2006 … see below).
- 2009 – 37 out of 40 students obtained the Diploma. Average 32 points. 1 student with 40 points
- 2010 – 31 out of 36 students obtained the Diploma. Average 31 points.
- 2011 – 49 out of 50 students obtained the Diploma. Average 34.5 points. 3 students with 40 or more points (44,42 & 40).
- 2012 – 51 out of 53 students obtained the Diploma. Average 31 points. 1 student with 40 points
- 2013 – 46 out of 49 Diploma candidates obtained the Diploma. Average 32.2 points. 3 students with 40 or more points (42,42 & 40).
- 2014 – 36 out of 38 Diploma candidates obtained the Diploma. Average 35 points. 1 student with 40 or more points (41).
- 2015 – 41 out of 47 Diploma candidates obtained the Diploma. Average 31 points. 1 student with 40 or more points (41).
- 2016 – ALL Diploma candidates obtained the Diploma. Average 32 points.
- 2017 – 40 out of 42 Diploma candidates obtained the Diploma. Average 32 points. 3 students with 40 or more points (1 with 40, 2 with 41).
- 2018 – 34 out of 39 students passed the Diploma. Average = 31 points, 1 student with 40 ormolu points (43 points).
- 2019 – 41 out of 43 students passed the Diploma. Average = 31 points.
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IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education): |
(We define our pass rate as the % of students passing at least 5 subjects with a grade of “C” or higher.
UK Statistics, Pass rate = 47.2% but automatically includes Maths and English)
- 1996 – Best Individual result in the World (6 A* and 3 A grades)
- 2002 – Pass rate = 90% All subjects A* – C grades = 84%
- 2003 – Pass rate = 87% All subjects A* – C grades = 82%
- 2004 – Pass rate = 85% All subjects A* – C grades = 80%
- 2005 – Pass rate = 89% All subjects A* – C grades = 83%
- 2006 – Pass rate = 81% All subjects A* – C grades = 80%
- 2007 – Pass rate = 86% All subjects A* – C grades = 83%
- 2008 – Pass rate = 90% All subjects A* – C grades = 87%
34% of all results at A* or A grades. Best results were
i) 8 A* (maximum score), ii) 7 A* and A and iii) 6*A, A, B.
- 2009 – Pass rate = 99% All subjects A* – C grades = 95%
42% of all results at A* or A grades. Best individual result in the world in French. Best individual result in the world in Spanish
- 2010 – Pass Rate = 91% – results affected by national emergency closing school on exam day.
- 2011 – Pass Rate = 93% . The best results were i) 8 A* (maximum score) and ii) 7 A* and A
- 2012 – Pass Rate = 91% . 9 students with 5 or more A* or A grades. (2 Students with 6 A* grades)
- 2013 – Pass Rate = 95% . 5 students had straight A* or A grades
- 2014 – Pass Rate = 88% . 3 students had straight A* or A grades
- 2015 – Pass Rate = 85% . 19 students with 5 or more A* or A grades. (1 student had straight A* or A grades)
- 2016 – Pass Rate = 95% . 7 students with 5 or more A* or A grades. (1 student had straight A* or A grades)
- 2017 – Pass Rate = 99%. 9 students with 5 or more A* or A grades (1 student with straight A* or A grades)
- 2018 – Pass Rate = 98%. 4 students with 5 or more A* or A grades.
- 2019 – Pass Rate = 96%. 5 students with 5 or more A* or A grades. (2 students with straight A* or A grades)
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