Course Assessment
Structuring and timing the IO
As stated on the page about Structuring the oral, organising the Individual Oral Presentation is no easy task. Delivering a coherently structured, well-balanced and well-timed ten minute oral presentation...
Assessment
Getting to know your texts: using the concepts
Once you have chosen the texts you will use for Paper 2, you need to get to know them very well. You need to get to know these texts in more detail and more intimately than any other texts on the course,...
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Paper 2: a guide for students Free
Paper 2: a guide for students 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...
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Paper 1 revision: a poem Free
As the May examinations are upon us and the English exam comes in a few days, we have added another student revision page for Paper 1. Like the last one, this revision page is focused on one paper 1...
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Paper 1 - new drama response Free
New HL Paper 1 drama response The inclusion of drama texts on Paper 1 is a recent development in the latest iteration of the course so there are not as many past paper examples of such extracts as the...
Review/revision
Paper 1 revision: prose fiction extract
There is a myth that you cannot revise for Paper 1 as it is an unseen examination. While there is no content to revise, you can go into this paper very well prepared by revising the literary forms and...
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Paper 1 revision: prose fiction extract Free
As the examinations fast approach, this week we have added another student revision page for Paper 1. This revision page takes a different form to the previous ones as it is focused on one paper 1 style...
Review/revision
Paper 1 revision: prose non-fiction
There is a myth that you cannot revise for Paper 1 as it is an unseen examination. While there is no content to revise, you can go into this paper very well prepared by revising the literary forms and...
Review/revision
Paper 1 revision: poetry
There is a myth that you cannot revise for Paper 1 as it is an unseen examination. While there is no content to revise, you can go into this paper very well prepared by revising the literary forms and...
Course Assessment
Reading for Style
The IB states that the guiding question for each unseen passage on Paper 1 will focus "on a central technical or formal element that may provide an interesting point of entry into the text." In other...