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Paper 1: sample responses
Assessment
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...

24 July 2024
Paper 1
Assessment
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...

03 February 2020
Paper 1: sample guiding questions
Assessment
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...

30 October 2020
Marking criteria
Assessment
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...

18 June 2021
Paper 2 question bank
Assessment
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...

23 February 2020
Practising Paper 1
Assessment
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...

23 April 2021
Paper 2:  Comparative essay
Assessment
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...

30 January 2023
Higher Level coursework essay:  a student guide
Assessment
Higher Level coursework essay: a student guide

A page and download for HL students... The notes below are designed to give you some guidance with preparing and writing the coursework essay. There are also some links in the text to other areas of this...

01 December 2020
Internal Assessment: the Individual Oral
Assessment
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...

18 September 2024
Paper 2: a guide for students
Assessment
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...

27 March 2024