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Step 6: Deliver your Individual Oral
Congratulations! You've reached the end of a long process. The last step it to actually do the assessment. 1. Deliver your IO to your teacher on the day and time given. You can only bring your official...
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Step 4: Create your official IB outline and rehearse
You now have an unofficial outline and have done a bit of practice rehearsing with it. Now is the time to really hunker down and learn your Individual Oral - without memorizing it! 1. Create your official...
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Step 2: Pick your extracts and annotate them (and the work/body of work)
Your next job is to figure out your specific extracts. Once you have made that decision, then you need to annotate them until you can't annotate anymore! You will also want to remember to create annotations...
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Step 1: Choose your topic
You need to figure out what you are going to talk about. To figure that out, do the following three things in any order you choose before moving to the next part of the process. 1. Pick your global...
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How am I graded?
Before you deliver your Individual Oral, you should become familiar with the corresponding assessment criteria. You can become familiar with the criteria through self-assessment, peer assessment or teacher...
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Individual oral
The individual oral is a 10-minute oral followed by five minutes of questions by your teacher. It is worth 20% of the your final IB grade if you are a Higher Level student and 30% of your final mark...
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Individual Oral Additions to the "For Students" Heading of the Site Free
This week’s update focuses on developing the resources for the Individual Oral in the “For Students” section of the website. You can find the updates here, here, here and here. Students have so many...
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For Students - A New Heading on the Site Free
There’s a new section to the site we think is a pretty cool feature. While we are just beginning to develop it, we see a lot of potential in it. It’s called “For Students” and it’s exactly what the...
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Approaching Exams: An Open Letter to Students Free
Dear Students, Rites of passage, including coming of age, often involve elaborate and sometimes painful rituals. From around the world, some of these transition to adulthood ceremonies involve wearing...
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Integrating quotes
Paper 1 assesses ones ability to integrate relevant examples into the commentary (Criterion A). What does it mean for an analysis to be "supported by well-chosen examples?" How do you integrate quotes...