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Paper 1: Specimen Paper (Slavery Today)
One of the things we aim to do at InThinking is to make the lives of teachers a little easier. One of the ways in which we do this is to provide a wide range of samples for teachers to use in their classroom...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 8 (Men's Health iii)
This is the third of our Paper 1 samples on Men's Health front covers. To date, we have published two other samples, one which is excellent, see this link, and one that is somewhat less successful, see...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 4 (Four-Letter TV Poem Fury)
This page contains a sample response to a news story, 'Four-Letter TV Poem Fury', published in the British daily newspaper The Daily Mail. Although we suggest it is a sample response - because it is -...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 9 (Justin Gatlin)
At the time of publishing, the May 2021 Paper 1 exams haven't yet occurred. In other words, while there are some specimen papers out there and we have a sense of what Paper 1 will look like, there hasn't...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 12 (Justin Gatlin)
This is the final in a series of four Paper 1 responses to an online article about Justin Gatlin's 2017 100 meter final win in the World Championships in Athletics. You can access online article here. ...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 11 (Justin Gatlin)
This is the third of four sample Paper 1 exemplars based on an online article from The Sun. The very first post in this series explains the entire exam process in detail. To summarize that process in...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 10 (Justin Gatlin)
In many respects, this second of four sample Paper 1 exemplars based on an online article from The Sun, is quite strong. It does everything right. And yet, it's also missing something across the board. ...
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Paper 1: Sample Response 3 (George Monbiot, Embarrassment of Riches)
This is the second Paper 1 response we have published written about one of George Monbiot’s polemical essays, often published in The Guardian, and available on Monbiot’s excellent website. In this essay,...
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Pre-2021 Paper 1s
The Paper 1s on this page were created before the first official examinations of the IB Language and Literature course in May 2021. However, the exemplars are still very useful! The series of Paper...
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Individual Oral: Exemplar 2 (Salome and Pulp Fiction)
This individual oral exemplar is excellent for us teachers. Here’s why. The student has done some questionable things. At the time of publishing this, in August of 2019, we don’t yet have clarity from...