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New Year, New Guide?
In the land of English B, we are anxiously awaiting our new Language B guide from the IB. We will share with you what we know so far so we can all keep calm and plan on! The most important question is...
M26 exams: final tips
With the May 2026 examination session upon us, two years of hard work from students (and teachers!) is about to be tested across the reading, writing and listening exams. Here at InThinking, we want to...
January/February Updates
The new year began and we rocketed off by publishing comprehensive resources for the memoir Born a Crime, new pages on Canadian Residential Schools, another short story, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,...
November/December Updates
For many of us, the festive season has well and truly arrived. Here in the UK, many towns have held events in which a local celebrity switches on the town's Christmas lights, and these same celebrities...
September/October Updates
The smell of fireworks is thick in the London air as I write this blog. Diwali celebrations continue throughout October and merge with Guy Fawkes Night celebrations in early November. It's noisy, but...
August Updates
As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere kick off a new academic year, and those in the South gear up for the November exams, we thought we would share with you some of the changes to the site and suggestions...
M25 HL Paper 1 Unpacked
Since the May 2025 examination session, I’ve seen much discussion on various social media platforms about Paper 1 in both time zones. While we can’t reproduce the prompts verbatim on the site for copyright...
The Communication Relationship
by Mark McGowan When the last iteration of the ToK syllabus was released, I created an image to communicate the idea of Knowledge and the Knower. I called it The Communication Relationship. It depicts...
Musings On…The Individual Oral
With the M25 exam session rapidly approaching, some teachers may have completed their Individual Oral Assessments (IOAs) and turned their attention to exam revision. For others, though - myself included!...
The Schwa
I find the schwa /ə/ a fascinating sound. As the excellent webcomic on the right, XKCD, humorously observes, it’s the most common phoneme in the English language and can usually be found in unstressed...