blackie: so did you go and study at a university overseas?

No offence, but I'm not entirely sure why people choose to study IB over VCE or HSC. afaik Australian high school certificates are widely recognised overseas too... I mean, I did the HSC and it didn't disadvantage me from gaining a scholarship to study at a university in Japan *shrug* In my experience people tend to pick it over the HSC/VCE more out of "prestige" *shrugs.again* Again, JMHO.

Still, from a language teacher's POV the IB is great since studying a foreign language is compulsory! So just out of interest which language did you study?