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Stockholm, Sweden, 19 - 21 September 2025
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IB DP Category 2
Berlin, Germany, 3 - 5 October 2025
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IB DP Category 2
Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Assessment
Practice for HL Paper 1 Writing Free
You've got the Paper 1 exam. You know which text type to write. There's only one problem: you don't know what to write. No worries. This page will show you exactly what to do on Paper 1, regardless...
Assessment
HL Listening exam 1
This is a complete exam, following the pattern of the new Listening Component. I would immediately point out that it is in no way an 'official' example. I have not seen the specifications in instructions...
Literature
The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Free
"The Mask of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe is a classic American short story. The story follows Prince Prospero as he attempts to avoid the plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey....
Assessment
Listening Tasks Free
Opening Gambit: "Listen to this (audio recording / video) ... and I want you to pick out ..." We all have ears, but do we hear? Listening is an undervalued skill, because the basic process is automatic...
Blog
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!...
Themes
Tattoos on Dark Skin Tones Free
The rise in popularity of tattoos is obvious. Everyone has one: pop stars, footballers, bartenders, bus drivers, teachers - grandmothers. And the numbers bear that out. According to the Pew Research...
Literature
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is an American classic short story that promotes critical and creative thinking about the themes of Identities (beliefs and values), Experiences (customs and traditions),...
Literature
Short Stories Free
Short stories are excellent to use as one or more of the required literary texts for HL. They also work well as supplemental texts in SL. The integration of short stories and various text types is encouraged...
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Using the site Free
Here is how to navigate among the various elements of the site: Top band - at the top of the screen you will see all of the main sections - click on these to open each section Side panel, left of screen...
Themes
Criminalising clothes
Organising social respectability? ... there have been rules about who can wear what throughout human history. Such rules have always have much to do with social hierarchy, but also ideology and religion....