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How to: prepare your Paper 2 answer
It is usually the case that better essays emerge from careful and effective use of the time between opening the exam paper and starting the first line of your introduction. The video below provides you...
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How to...annotate unseen texts.
Annotation is an essential skill that you will learn to get better at as you progress through this course, and the more consciously you address it, the more you will come to understand its importance....
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Paper 2: writing your introduction
The opening of your paper 2 essay is important as it needs to give your reader a sense that you are confident with your texts and know where you are heading with them in response to the question. Think...
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Paper 2: applying the concepts
Deciding which texts to teach and how to teach them presents a number of issues in Paper 2. Students are of course free to answer the question in reference to any texts they have been taught in the course...
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Paper 2: language for comparison
Language for Comparison As you write your paper 2 essay, you need to use language that will allow the examiner to follow the connections and contrasts you are making between the two texts. Regular use...
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Structuring the oral
Organising the Individual Oral Presentation is no easy task. There are many factors to bear in mind and many decisions to make in order for the assessment to score as highly as possible. You may wish...
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HL Essay exemplar 14: Silence
HL essay on Silence by Shüsaku Endö The sample essay is available as a PDF below and can also be seen by clicking on the icon underneath the PDF viewer. What does Shusaku Endo's presentation of the...
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HL essay exemplar 13: In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood The sample essay is available as a PDF below and can also be seen by clicking on the icon underneath the PDF viewer. How does Truman Capote’s omniscient narrative voice convey a subjective...
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SL: choosing the passage
if you are a Standard Level student, you get to make a choice in Paper 1 as you just need to write one response about one of the two extracts that are presented. The question of which extract to choose...
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Responses to poetry
Paper 1 responses to poetryWhile some students claim to find poetry 'difficult', in many ways it is a literary form that many on the course come to find easier to analyse, partly because it is a form...