Talk:Creativity, activity, service

To be honest, as an IB graduate, CAS, although very sensible in its idea and concept, just doesn't work. I completed, of the 150 hours required, about 10; the rest I lied about and made up signatures. It took me about 15 minutes to fake 140 hours of CAS work. All of the rest of my class did this. It is simply unreasonable in my view to expect such dedication from a 17 year old where cheating is so easily done! --DragonFly31 08:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)----

I think this depends heavily on the CAS coordinator in your school. If your CAS coordinator is quite active (i.e. phones your supervisor, demasking them maybe as fictual and so on), it might get less easy... --Mbimmler 16:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah...some schools that do the IB take CAS very seriously, often to a level that i personally believe is utterly ridiculous. Since CAS is something that people can do a LOT of, or just scrap through with the 150 hours (whether they actually do it or not), some schools like to look good and make their students do more than the 150 hours. It's not hard for people who do a lot of extra-curriculum activities in the first place, but most people just don't bother. --Yaksha 00:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

As a freshman student considering IB, CAS seems incredibly easy. Five weeks of two hour practices for a school team, music composition or even storywriting, and some tutoring and volunteer work over the summer seem to be all that it takes. I don't know why anyone would have to fake it.Theunknown42 23:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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I agree. Also for those people that do go through the hassle of spending 150 hours on CAS, which really isn't very hard to accomplish, they'd normally have to spend more time writing it up, discouraging them from doing it in the first place. --218.111.152.167 23:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Just a thought as a senior in ib with 139 hours total currently (2 months left to finish it up) the easiest way to scam the extra hours in case you do have an active coordinator is to have your supervisor sign off sheets which you wrote the hours you earned in pencil and go back later and maybe double the hours after erasing them so that in case your coordinator does call your supervisor that you still are relatively covered...12.218.180.101 19:41,18 February 2007 (UTC)

Should it be mentioned that many CAS Supervisors recognise the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme as accountable hours. T saston 23:53, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Not only that, but things like the World Challenge that runs trips for students to travel to nations like Madagascar and Tanzania to help in construction and development projects whilst raising the bulk of the money themselves. I'll look into adding a section on schemes that can contribute towards CAS, but I don't know much about any international schemes, only UK and EU ones. Any help would be appreciated. JavaJawaUK 16:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)