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May 2026 Paper 2: Sample Response 1 (Q2)
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...

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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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"I could not have trained my first batch of English A: Language and Literature without the resources and teaching ideas from InThinking. Even now, as I prepare the second batch of English A: Language and Literature I gain a lot of inputs from the website,..."

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  • Dorothy

    14 Oct 2026

    Thank you for your reply Tim! 

    Extended Essay (2027)

  • Cara

    13 Oct 2026

    Thank you, that's very helpful! 

    Non-literary bodies of work

  • Tim

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    13 Oct 2026

    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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  • Dorothy

    13 Oct 2026

    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)

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