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15 Oct 2026
May 2026 Paper 2: Sample Response 1 (Q2)
This week, we are posting our first May 2026 Paper 2 model example on the site. This is also the first essay we are publishing under the “new” criteria for Paper 2. The IB has added criterion B2 from...
1 Oct 2026
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...
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Hi Dorothy, Please not that students could always have written a comparative essay on two literary works originally written in English. It would have been a C1 EE in the "old" classification system. One year, a student of mine wrote a...
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Hi Tim and David, I have a question - if students would like to write a comparative essay on two lit texts, in the previous EE course, one had to be in English and the other one in translation. However, now it says, that the...
Extended Essay (2027)
Dorothy
Thank you for your reply Tim!
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