This year’s graduates at GEMS World Academy – Dubai (GWA) achieved an impressive average IB Diploma Programme point score of 34.2, significantly above the global average of 31.98. The school also recorded a 100 per cent pass rate, with two students awarded a near-perfect 44 points out of 45.
Of the graduating cohort, 95 per cent were accepted into their first-choice universities, including prestigious institutions in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands and the US.
Karen Nyborg, Secondary Assistant Principal at GEMS World Academy – Dubai, says the achievements represent a new height in standards at the school during an exam year: “We have nine students who have achieved 40 points and above and, in terms of our school’s historical data, this is the best set of results we’ve had.”