Selected student pages
Assessment
Paper 2: using evidence
This page is about using evidence in Paper 2, something that is essential if you are going to write an essay that conveys a good knowledge and understanding of your texts to present a convincing argument...
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How to...get the global issue right
A key part of success in the Individual Oral is coming up with a good global issue. Understanding what one is, how to phrase it and then how to plan an oral around it is not necessarily straightforward,...
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried and TOK Within the text O’Brien deliberately blurs the lines between fiction and reality, telling us that certain events he describes did not happen but that they still convey...
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Extended Essay (2027): Subject-focused essays
This page outlines the key considerations for teachers and students when undertaking an extended essay in English A, as well as how to construct a well-focused research question. The page concludes with...
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Why structuring an essay is like building a house
Organising the points you want to make in an essay around larger key ideas, and in a way that develops logically, is a challenging thing to do. The ultimate success (or otherwise) of many essays is often...
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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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Paper 2: structuring the essay
This page focuses on how best to plan and structure your comparative essay for the Paper 2 examination. Previous pages have underlined the importance of giving yourself plenty of time with your texts,...
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The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Song of Wandering Aengus is another of Yeats' early poems that places a stamp on his interest in 'romantic' Celtic mysticism and myth. However, it is also a poem that invites consideration of his...
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TOK: 'truth' in literary non-fiction
What do we mean by truth and reality in literature? Below are some suggested questions to get students thinking about literary non-fiction in relation to the Theory of Knowledge course. These could be...
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Paper 1 Practice: Drama
This page provides a selection of drama extracts with guiding questions that can be used for practice. There are six sample extracts in total. In addition, the first two extracts include some additional...
Assessment
IA Oral sentence stems
An important feature of the assessment task is the adoption of an appropriate register. You can of course practise beforehand, and it is important to do so - not least to eradicate any tendency to use...
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Paper 2 questions: unpacking and planning
So far this guide has asked you to focus on the texts you have chosen for Paper 2, thinking about how they connect to the areas of exploration, the course concepts, as well as each other. While the best...