Cambridge IGCSE

The Grade 9-10 curriculum is guided by the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) program.

Cambridge IGCSE is an international curriculum that develops students' skills in creative thinking, enquiry and problem solving, and gives them excellent preparation for the next stage in their education. Each subject is certificated separately. The Cambridge IGCSE incorporates the best in international education for students at this level, developing in line with changing needs, and is regularly updated and extended. Cambridge IGCSE has wide recognition from higher education institutions and employers around the world as evidence of academic ability. Under certain conditions, the IGCSE can be transcribed in Munich by the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Culture as equivalent to the Bavarian Realschulabschluss (Mittlere Reife).

The FIS currently offers the following subjects for IGCSE certificates:

• German First Language;
• German Foreign Language;
• Spanish Foreign Language;
• English First Language and English Literature;
• Mathematics (Core and Extended);
• Coordinated Science double award (Core and Extended);
• Information Technology;
• History or Geography;
• Art.

 Music and P.E. are also offered at the FIS as non-IGCSE subjects in Grades Nine and Ten.