Level 4
Grade 11 - 12
Duration :
90 minutes
90 minutes
Mode of Exam :
Conducted online, accessible from any secure location with individual login credentials
Conducted online, accessible from any secure location with individual login credentials
Eligibility :
Open to all Grade 11–12 students, across all academic streams and schools.
Open to all Grade 11–12 students, across all academic streams and schools.
Finding Direction, Building Leaders
The Foundation and Curiosity of a Lifelong Journey
IBM Q2D PEARL Level 4 is a transformative program crafted for senior secondary students who are preparing to take their next big step — from school to higher education and career exploration. This stage empowers learners to:
- Discover their unique strengths and interests.
- Gain clarity on academic and career pathways.
- Cultivate leadership, critical thinking, and future-readiness skills that serve them well beyond school.
Through interactive assessments, immersive challenges, and real-world case studies, students develop confidence, purpose, and the ability to make informed choices for their personal and professional futures.
Objectives
- To empower senior secondary students to discover their unique strengths and interests.
- To provide clarity on academic and career pathways suitable for each student.
- To cultivate essential skills in leadership, critical thinking, and future readiness that extend beyond school.
- To engage students in practical activities including career discovery workshops, leadership and debate forums, and professional mentorship sessions.
- To ensure students graduate with outcomes including career clarity, leadership proficiency, strategic thinking, future-ready competence, and a growth mindset.
- To support institutions by improving student preparedness, leadership development, academic program differentiation, institutional reputation, and engagement with parents and industry experts
- Developing their problem-solving skills
- Building social and communication abilities
- Displaying natural preferences in how they learn and interact
Senior Secondary Students (Grades 11–12) seeking clarity on higher education, career direction, and leadership development.
Why there is a need to learn new Technologies?
Though frequent changes are happening in the curriculum and Colleges are trying hard to keep up the pace with an industry updated curriculum, technology advancements are so rapid that it is impossible to stay abreast given the existing structure. By the time a student completes his or her graduation, the technology changes would be in such a manner that there will be no correlation of what they have learned and what the industry wants.
To ensure that any student or candidate end up securing a good career and life, they must learn new and emerging technologies on top of their existing curriculum. This will ensure they are able to reap the benefits of better opportunities for highly skilled people. It will also ensure that the student will hold a general degree as well as a specialization while graduating from the Institution.
Core Areas of Exploration
- Career Orientation & Aptitude Mapping – uncovering strengths, interests, and potential career alignments.
- Leadership & Ethical Decision-Making Scenarios – building real-world problem-solving and value-based judgment.
- Analytical & Logical Reasoning – sharpening structured thinking and intellectual agility.
- Global Innovation & Future Trends Awareness – understanding the evolving landscape of technology, creativity, and global opportunities.
Activities & Challenges
- Career Discovery Workshops – guided by industry subject matter and domain experts.
- Leadership and Debate Forums – platforms to voice ideas, lead teams, and influence positive change.
- Professional Mentorship Sessions – mentorship that bridges school learning with real-world career pathways.
Student Learning Experience and Support
Industry-aligned Curriculum
Developed in collaboration with Industry experts to ensure relevance.
Hands-On Learning
Emphasis on projects, labs, case studies, and real-world problem-solving scenarios.
Mentorship
Access to subject matter experts and periodic workshops.
Competitions & Hackathons
Intra-college, inter-college, and global competitions to foster innovation and applied skills.
Online Industry-Academia Collaboration Framework
Enables students to learn, collaborate, and discover through an advanced digital platform.
Benefits of Early Discovery
For Parents:
- Assurance of their child’s preparedness for higher education and diverse career pathways.
- Clear insights into academic and professional directions aligned with the student’s strengths.
- Understanding of their child’s growth in leadership, innovation, and independent thinking.
For Institutions:
- Enhanced Student Preparedness: Industry experts prepare students for higher education and career pathways, improving their success rates and academic alignment with future goals.
- Leadership Development: The program cultivates leadership, critical thinking, and decision-making skills among students, raising the institution’s profile for developing well-rounded future leaders.
- Differentiated Academic Programs: By offering career orientation, aptitude mapping, and future trends awareness, institutions can diversify and deepen their curriculum, making their offerings more attractive.
- Improved Institutional Reputation: Schools that run transformative programs like SPARK Level 4 are viewed as forward-thinking and supportive of holistic student growth, enhancing their appeal to prospective students and parents.
- Parent Engagement and Satisfaction: The program’s clarity on student growth and career direction reassures parents, helping institutions build stronger parent-school relationships.
- Digital and Flexible Delivery: The online exam format allows institutions to conduct assessments conveniently and securely, supporting modern, tech-enabled learning environments.
- Facilitation of Mentorship and Industry Connections: Professional mentorship sessions and debate forums strengthen the institution’s ties with industry experts and promote real-world learning experiences.
- Future-Ready Graduates: Helping students gain strategic thinking and future-ready competencies reflects positively on institutions by producing graduates who excel in university-level studies, internships, and competitive environments.
IBM Innovation Centre for Education in collaboration with Q2D is preparing the next generation of professionals to be future ready:
IBM ICE in Collaboration with Q2D through its ‘unique global initiative’ offers the much-needed applied information technology knowledge to graduating students to make them industry ready through a structured learning pathway and a well-planned learning methodology executed through the below stated unique time-tested initiates:
- Students are handheld to attain skills by IBM Trained & Certified faculty along with Technology Experts.
- The applied courseware has been developed exclusively for Innovation Centre for Education Students by industry experts and with inputs from IBMers across the world.
- This is one of the key advantages of IBM partnership. The support comes from the IBM Labs and other connected groups which are doing leading work in emerging technology areas.
- The courses are reviewed and adjusted at periodic intervals to ensure their relevance.
- Next-Generation ecosystem learning platform which will benefit faculties & Students to access the courseware and collaborate with industry experts.
- Focus on projects and applied learning shall be offered from the very beginning. Theory courses shall be augmented by adequate project and applied work, which will help the students apply the knowledge they gain in classroom.
- IBM endorsed certifications enhance employability and global recognition
- Subject Matter Experts’ Interactions help students to learn and understand the application of the technology for various industry domains.
- There will be adequate interaction planned during these visits so that it becomes an interactive learning experience for the students.
- This shall be part of the Innovation Centre for Education’s futuristic online delivery framework –encouraging the concept of ‘Learn, Collaborate and Discover’
- IBM shall organize IBM Innovation Centre for Education Days where students learn to collaborate and compete through Technical Poster Competitions, Hackathons, Technical Paper Presentations and Project Presentations.
- These competitions are conducted for intra-college, inter-college & inter-country.
- Learning through collaboration and competition on Innovation Centre for Education Days.
- Senior Industry Experts periodically guide and mentor the students for additional and expert knowledge.
- Timely updates from industry mentors and IBM experts shall be made available to the students of the Academic Partner Institute under the IBM Innovation Centre for Education
- The learning will be further enhanced by providing adequately structured discussion forums on relevant topics / subjects.
- Access to IBM Redbooks and other online resources
- IBM shall constantly monitor and advise in implementing global best practices at Academic Partner’s Institute to ensure that the best value of learning is delivered to the students.
Why PEARL Level 4 Matters
SPARK Level 4 serves as the crucial bridge between formal schooling and the real-world arena of higher learning and careers. It helps students turn potential into purpose, developing not only intellectual excellence but also the confidence, leadership, and clarity to thrive in life beyond school.