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What Percentage of Students Get a 7 in IB Social and Cultural Anthropology?

Latest data: May 2026Provisional

In May 2026, 7.7% of the 949 students who took IB Social and Cultural Anthropology HL were awarded a 7, and 2.6% of the 1,735 who took it at SL.

Compared with May 2025, the grade 7 rate was down from 10.4% at HL and down from 2.9% at SL.

HL grade 7 rate
7.7%
May 2025: 10.4%
SL grade 7 rate
2.6%
May 2025: 2.9%

Social and Cultural Anthropology grade 7 rate by session

The share of students awarded a 7 at HL and SL in every session since November 2021. Solid lines are May sessions and dashed lines November, a much smaller session. The table adds the change from the same session a year earlier. For the other grades, see the IB Social and Cultural Anthropology grade distribution.

Share of IB Social and Cultural Anthropology students awarded a 7 at HL and SL by year, May and November sessions.
IB Social and Cultural Anthropology grade 7 rate by session, newest first, with the change from a year earlier
SessionHLHL changeSLSL change
May 2026provisional7.7%−2.72.6%−0.3
November 202522.6%+7.17.8%−8.4
May 202510.4%−0.22.9%−0.1
November 202415.5%−6.516.2%+11.4
May 202410.6%—3.0%—
November 202322.0%—4.8%—
May 202312.8%−2.14.5%−1.0
November 202225.3%−3.519.0%−6.0
May 202214.9%—5.5%—
November 202128.8%—25.0%—

Change: the difference from the same session a year earlier, May from May and November from November, in percentage points.

—: no result for that session, or none a year earlier to compare it with.

Grade shares from November 2023 count students with no grade (N) and earlier ones don't, so changes across that point aren't shown.

  • These bulletins print no N (no grade) column, so grades 1-7 are shares of the students who received a grade, and N is shown as —. (November 2021, May 2022, November 2022, May 2023)
  • These bulletins include N (no grade) in the total, so grades 1-7 add up to less than 100% and are measured on a slightly different basis from sessions without an N column. (November 2023, May 2024, November 2024, May 2025, November 2025, May 2026)
  • Grade cells the bulletin leaves blank are shown as 0.0%. (November 2021, May 2022, November 2022, May 2023, May 2024, May 2025)
  • The IB states that these results combine examination and non-examination assessment routes, which were used during the COVID-19 disruption. (May 2022)

How the Social and Cultural Anthropology grade 7 rate compares with other subjects

Of the 23 subjects with at least 100 students at HL in May 2026, IB Social and Cultural Anthropology had the 11th highest grade 7 rate. At SL it had the 25th highest of 30. Every subject is ranked in IB subjects with the highest grade 7 rates.

The chart and table show the grade 7 rates of the subjects in Group 3: Individuals and Societies with at least 100 students at a level.

Grade 7 rate at HL and SL in Group 3: Individuals and Societies, May 2026.
Grade 7 rate in Group 3: Individuals and Societies, May 2026
SubjectHLSL
Economics14.7%14.3%
Geography12.7%7.5%
Philosophy8.6%8.6%
Social and Cultural Anthropology7.7%2.6%
Business Management6.6%10.0%
Global Politics6.1%4.1%
Psychology6.0%4.0%
History2.6%3.3%
Digital Society2.3%3.1%
Turkey in the 20th Century—14.6%
Brazilian Social Studies—8.7%
Art History—7.0%
World Religions—2.3%

—: not offered at that level, or fewer than 100 students took it.

Rankings include every subject with at least 100 students at the level except the language courses, whose results are reported by language.

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Source and methodology

These statistics are from the International Baccalaureate's statistical bulletins. The latest data shown is from the May 2026 assessment session.

About this data

  • May and November are separate assessment sessions. November is much smaller and mostly taken by schools in the southern hemisphere, so its figures aren't directly comparable with May's.
  • The May 2026 figures are from the IB's provisional bulletin and may change when the final bulletin is published.
  • Older bulletins call the people sitting the exams “candidates” and newer ones “students”. This site says “students” throughout.
  • “<10” means the IB didn't publish the exact number because fewer than 10 students took the subject. These figures are never estimated or counted as zero.
  • The grade 7 rate is the share of students the bulletin reports at grade 7. The grade 6 or 7 rate is calculated by IBonomics by adding the published shares for grades 6 and 7. Every other figure is as published.
  • From November 2023 the bulletins include students who received no grade (N) in each subject's percentages, so grades 1 to 7 add up to slightly less than 100%. Earlier bulletins give percentages of graded students only.
  • Bulletins up to May 2023 print figures to two decimal places and later ones to one. Each figure is shown as printed, and changes are compared at the lower precision.

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