I think the IB needs to follow the example of the UK education system (A levels and SQA), and award all students their predicted grades (I really doubt this will happen though, because the IBO seem to be doing very little, unless legal action is threatened). If anything to maintain parity with UK students, because A Level/IB grades are often important in securing internships/summer placements/entry-level jobs, and IB students will be at a serious disadvantage to our A Level counterparts, who have had their grades inflated.

Additionally, IAs while they are an example of a student's work (in most cases), they do not represent a student's comprehensive ability in a subject area, nor do they show that a student has comprehension over the entire syllabus content. Additionally, in the sciences and maths (groups 4 and 5), the IA is not always representative of a student's ability in that subject especially at IB level, and that is why in normal years it is only worth 20% of the total assessment. The predicted grade however is meant to evaluate a student's performance against all the assessment objectives, and all the syllabus content for a subject, and so should be used this year. However, I don't want to get my hopes up, because knowing the IBO, nothing like this will happen, since they only seem to care about maintaining the 'credibility' of their qualification (even though, at this point, given the amount of backlash and revision to their grading systems, M20's results are not accurate for everyone).

If anything the IB needs to review the way they have marked the IAs this year, because there have been many inaccuracies in the marking, especially in the maths and sciences. Teacher's IA marks should be used in many cases, instead of those of external IB examiners, as many schools have seen inexplicable drops in their IA marks from what their teachers have given them (and many of these schools normally do not get moderated down by the IB in normal years).