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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
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Can someone further elucidate this unit type? It sounds appealing, but I'm not sure how this would play out over a unit (or units) and adequately address the assessments.
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Hi David, Are you saying that we can combine a literary work, a variety of non-literary texts (not just by one author), and non-literary body of work by one author for the IO in one unit? Forgive my lack of understanding, but I'm just...
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Thank you for your reply Tim!
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Aziza
Hello Tim and David, I hope you both are doing well. One of my students intends to compare a novel with poems of TS Eliot. 1) Is that doable? Prose and poetry both originally in English. 2) ...
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