Hi! I just wondered if it was possible to know how many points they were awarded per criteria ! Thank you!
HL Essay: Exemplar 1 (Women's Health)Hi Tom, Good questions. The answer, however, is no, but with a caveat. Students are expected to use interrupted text without elision in the extracts they use for the IO. This is unproblematic in conventional written text, but a little trickier...
A Language for Discussing FilmDear Tim and David, The IO: Your example of an extract from Gattaca, a film (non-literary work), shows one of the opening sequences in Victor's flashback to his birth. The extract features one moment and three screenshots from...
A Language for Discussing FilmAloha, Tim. It would have been a shame to limit my students if they truly had the option of comparing "potentially any work studied" throughout the "open and flexible"-natured course, but I am now convinced that they must choose from one of the six...
AssessmentHello,I have a student who wants to write their EE about The Vietnam War 2017 by Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick. The student came across a website that he wanted to use as a resource but it's originally written in Finnish, is it okay to use?
Extended EssayHi Tim- There's only so much humor to get out of pickles. Thanks for the title! -Jake
Extended Essay (2027): What's New? First Submissions 2027Hi Stela, Me too! Please keep asking if you can't find something you've used in the past. We will respond as fast as we can and usually under 24 hours. We want to make this work for you! Best, Tim
Lessons and activitiesThank you. It is just taking a while to get used to the new format of the website, but I suppose I'll figure it out eventually.
Lessons and activitiesHi Jacob, It's from Oxford Press (Oxford Resources for the IB) and titled "2025 Edition Extended Essay Course Companion" by Kosta Lekanides. It could be of great support for you in this (I wanted to keep the pickle joke going, but...
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Site authorHi Nehal, Using a supporting source in another language would not be problematic. In the interest of simplicity, I would suggest to the student that they should look for secondary sources published in English (which are, in any case, likely...
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