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Student Access - How to Provide it for Free
This week, we’ve updated all the how-to portions of the site: how to navigate it, how to set up student access, how to ask questions and more. The larger InThinking team also created a set of video tutorials...
Back to School (For Some)
If you are in a southern hemisphere IB school, you will, we hope, forgive the self-absorption of your colleagues in the north. For us northerners, it is back to school time. At InThinking, we haven't...
Summer Renovations – New, Fresh Look to the Site
Over our summer holidays, we metaphorically renovated the house. Our site has a new, fresh look in line with all the other InThinking subject sites. You will find we relocated a lot of our materials...
Best Books - January to June 2026
Looking back at the last six months, I have read a lot of nonfiction. A lot. Two stand out books took my breath away: Man’s Search for Meaning and Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar. I was...
May 2025 Paper 2: Sample Response 5 (Question 1)
This is the fifth, and for the time being, final Paper 2 we are publishing from the May 2025 exams. It is another excellent response to question #1: Discuss how the writers of two works you have studied...
May 2025 Paper 1: Sample Response 3 (Digital Divide)
This week, we are publishing our 3rd exemplar from the May 2025 Paper 1 examination based on an infographic from the Good Things Foundation, a charity focused on “fixing the digital divide – for good”...
May 2025 Paper 1: Sample Response 3 (Real Estate)
This week, we are publishing our 3rd Paper 1 from this May 2025 examination. We’ve published one exemplar, found here, that scores higher than this model example. We’ve also published one exemplar,...
May 2025 Paper 2: Sample Response 4 (Question 2)
This week, we are publishing our fourth exemplar from the May 2025 Paper 2 examination. It is best used in conjunction with the third model example found here. Why? This comparative essay is pretty...
May 2025 Paper 2: Sample Response 3 (Question 2)
This week, we are adding to our Paper 2 sample responses. It scores really well and is a great model example for you to use in your classroom. Is there room for improvement? Of course! More comparing...
May 2025 Paper 2: Sample Response 2 (Question 1)
This week, we are publishing our second exemplar from the May 2025 Paper 2 examination. You will find that it is a pretty standard response. So why publish an essay that is average? For some of our...