Paper 2: making comparisons

Sunday 5 June 2022

Making comparisons 
After two years with no paper 2 due to the pandemic, it is now back for current first year DP students.  To help prepare students - and teachers  - for the return of this examination in 2023, we have started to develop a guide to paper 2 for students.

A new page about comparing texts has been added and can be found below.  The other pages can be found from the guide home page, also linked below. 

Further pages will be developed and added to the guide in the coming weeks and months.   If there is a particular element of this assessment you would like to see covered then please let us know via the comments.

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