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  • Paper 1: new prose fiction response

    New HL Paper 1 response from May 2023 TZ2This week we have published a new Higher Level student's response to the prose extract on the May 2023...

  • Paper 1 revision: poetry

    As the May examinations fast approach, this week we have added another student revision page for Paper 1 with a poem and guiding question. There...

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  • 15 May 2024
    Claire Caffrey
    Structuring and timing the IO
    Thanks Mark, that's very helpful!
  • Hi Brenda:  you're certainly right about the need for caution here, for all the reasons you mention. In the end we have to sign off the work as the student's own, and we therefore would not want to encourage any practice that would compromise...
  • 14 May 2024
    Mark Beverley
    Structuring and timing the IO
    Hi Claire - as much as possible you want to make the balance even - between both the extract and the wider work and between the two works. It can feel a bit regimented to think of it in terms of equal numbers of minutes for each, but it in...
  • 14 May 2024
    Claire Caffrey
    Structuring and timing the IO
    Hi David,Can I ask if this structure is used (BOW-extract-BOW-extract) then must the timing between the four areas be equal? For example 2 minutes for each of these parts (2-2-2-2) or can it be 1-3-1-3? I know the marking scheme states "treatment...