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IB Approved Workshops
Language A: Literature (generic)
IB DP Category 2
Barcelona, Spain, 14 - 16 February 2025
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Navigating school-supported self-taught literature
IB DP Category 3
Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
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Navigating school-supported self-taught literature
IB DP Category 3
Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Virtual Think-Ins
Paper 1 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 27 January 2025
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Paper 2 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 29 January 2025
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The Individual Oral in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 11 February 2025
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Paper 1: sample responses
Sample paper 1 responsesLinked from this page are a range of paper 1 responses with teacher marks and comments. It is important for teachers and students to look at a range of examples so that you become...
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Paper 1
Guided literary analysis Paper 1, the first of two external examination papers, is now called Guided Literary Analysis for both HL and SL students. In this examination students will be given two unseen...
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Paper 2 question bank
Paper 2 questions will ask students to compare and contrast two of the works they have studied. The questions may take different forms, invite examination of any aspect of content, form or style and apply...
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Paper 1: sample guiding questions
For paper 1, guided literary analysis, students are given two unseen literary passages which can come from any of the four literary forms on the Prescribed Reading List: drama, poetry, prose fiction and...
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Marking criteria
Below you can find easily viewable assessment criteria for each examined component. These might be useful to project in class when you are engaged in marking an exemplar response, but also as a means...
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Paper 2: a guide for students
Paper 2: a guide for students The first page is a guide to choosing the texts for the examination. While this part of the process is still some way off for current first year students, it is still useful...
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Paper 2: Comparative essay
Compare and contrast two works One of the exciting features of the Literature course relates to the way in which students are given free choices about the texts on which they want to write for some of...
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Paper 2: sample responses
Linked from this page are some paper 2 sample responses with teacher marks and comments, including a new sample that has just been added. We will be looking to add more examples, covering a range of...
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Internal Assessment: the Individual Oral
The Individual Oral Replacing the IOP and IOC, the individual oral combines aspects of both previous assessments into one internal assessment task, which is the same for SL and HL students in terms of...
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Practising Paper 1
It may be a slightly obvious thing to say, but progress in this course depends more on the acquisition of a set of skills than the accumulation of a body of knowledge. And recognition of this carries...