If students achieve at least 28 credits in the following subject areas then they can gain entry into an American college or university.

Subject	Years Studied	Credits required per subject	Grade 9 KISC Curriculum	Grade 10 KISC Curriculum	Grade 11 KISC Curriculum	Grade 12 KISC Curriculum	Total Credits Offered
English Lang. & Lit	4 years	6 credits	2 credits	2 credits	2 credits	2 credits	8
Mathematics	4 years	4 credits	1	1	1	1	4
*Sciences	3 years	5 credits	2	2	1	1	6
Foreign Lang.	3 or 4 years	3 or 4 credits	1	1	1	1	4
**Social Studies	3 years	4 credits	1 ¾	1 ¾	1 ¾	1 ¾	7
Physical Education	4 years	2 credits	½	½	½	½	2
ICT	4 years	1 ½ credits	½	½	½	½	2
***Electives	4 years	1 ½ credits	½	½	½	½	2
Total		28 credits					35 credits
****Extra Credits

*   Science includes the laboratory sciences of Biology, Physics and Chemistry

** Social Studies includes Geography or History, Religious Education, Personal and Social Education and must include: 1 credit of US History and  ½ a credit of US Government

*** Electives at KISC are programmes of study that extend the student’s skills and knowledge in the following disciplines, Mathematics, ICT, Music, Art, Drama, Vocational and/or Physical Education. Once courses are completed a comment is given on the student in the homeroom teachers report. They are not given grades but do gain credits from attending the course.

**** Extra credits are given for any assessed subject above the required number of credits. For example, a student who studies Geography and Religious Education will gain extra credits than required for social sciences at KISC. Art and Design/ Business Studies/Music will gain 2 credits for completing the IGCSE or AS course.

The credit values are usually based on the number of lessons in that subject taken a week.

Students are expected to attend at least 90% of the lessons in that subject and complete all the key assessment pieces set in the subject to gain a credit.

If students do not attend KISC for all of Grades 9-12, then proof of study and grades achieved are required from their previous school for credits to count on the KISC Transcript for a High School Diploma Certificate.

 Please Note

· Late entry into Grade 11 is highly detrimental to AICE students. They will miss out on key concepts, any essential revision and will not be aware of the general expectations and methods of each subject teacher. We expect students to be present from the start of Term 1.

· Students will be allowed to begin the AICE Diploma course on the basis of a predicted grade C or above at IGCSE Extended level (or equivalent examination) or on the basis of a KISC entrance examination in that subject.

· Students will be allowed to begin the Maths course on the basis of a predicted grade C or above at IGCSE Extended level (or equivalent examination) or on the basis of a KISC entrance examination in that subject. For Physics a grade B or above is needed in Maths IGCSE.

· Students wishing to study English at AS level must fulfill the entrance requirements in both IGCSE First Language English and IGCSE English Literature.

· All students will have their progress in each subject reviewed after 6 weeks. KISC reserves the right at this stage to ask students to give up a particular subject; or even to recommend not proceeding with AICE at all.

· These decisions will be on the basis of both the actual published IGCSE results and the work completed by the student over the initial 6-week period. These steps are necessary to avoid students proceeding pointlessly with studies which are unsuited to their own abilities.

· Students will pursue the equivalent of 6 full courses.  Any students unable to find a combination of 6 AICE Diploma courses for which they are eligible is probably unsuited to AICE – or to the range of subjects which KISC can realistically offer. It would be more suitable to consider an alternative school.

· It is very difficult for students to catch up on their work if they are absent for a long period of time. KISC therefore recommends that students should not be absent for extended periods of time and that Furloughs/Home Leave are avoided if at all possible or else taken over school holidays as much as possible.