Hello David and Tim Curious about your thoughts on this. The new guide states that: "If the text is a film, the focus must be clearly on the screenplay (the written or spoken word), its delivery and effect." and...
Extended Essay (2027): Subject-focused EssaysHaruki Murakami's magical realist conventions in Second Battery Attack and TV People to critique the submission of human agency to consumerism: how good is this for HLE?
TipsHi Reena, Students only need to respond to the prompt provided in the guide. The task does not involve research, so a research question is inappropriate. It would be possible to reformulate the global issue as some kind of interrogative, but...
2021 Individual Oral: Exemplar 3 (The Underground Railroad and Gattaca)Hi Tim, Just to clarify, students do not need to come up with a research question/line of inquiry/guiding question which is related to their chosen GI and extracts, right? We only have to refer to the prompt provided in the guide, am I right? Thanks...
2021 Individual Oral: Exemplar 3 (The Underground Railroad and Gattaca)Hi Patricia, Good question. The answer is no, there isn't. All that you can know in advance is that the questions/prompts will be of a general literary nature. In my experience, I would say that the questions are very broad and allow plenty...
Paper 2Hi, Are there distinct categories into which Paper 2 questions are organised- e.g., a 'context' question, an authorial choices question, etc. Thank you, Patricia
Paper 2Thank you so much for a detailed feedback, its really helpful for me. Regards
Paper 2Hi Jacob, This is a situation where you will have to go through your IB Coordinator. I believe the document is called the Handbook of Procedures (but I may be wrong) for how to go about it. Your IB Coordinator will need to get official...
Individual oralHello, David and Tim! A counsellor at my school came to me just the other day to let me know one of our incoming 9th graders has a pretty major stutter. Since I've been doing my IAs this week, it made her think about how those might work for...
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Site authorHi Rajesh, Big picture, this seems fine. I don't know if you want to frame it as question for the title. I also don't know if you want to replace "magical realist conventions" with simply "how." That's up to the student and...
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