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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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Practising Paper 2 reading
. Examples of the various types of question used in Paper 2 are scattered around the site, usually in the handouts provided to support texts for reading. The listing below gives you links so that you...
Writing
Text type expectations Free
To put it another way, how will they be expected to handle each text type in Paper 1: Productive skills - writing? Basically, what instructions do we give the students ... what plans do we provide them,...
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Paper 1: Past Paper Text Types
Between November 2020 and May 2024, there have been 11 examination sessions, resulting in 33 Paper 1 prompts across Higher and Standard Levels. Each prompt offered a choice of three text types, creating...
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HL Orals
Let's just remind ourselves of the basic requirements of the HL Individual Interview: Supervised preparation time - 20 minutes The student is presented with two extracts (one from each of the two literary...
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Orals: what's expected? Free
The procedure for the Oral Individual Interview, introduced by the 2018 Subject Guide, was put into practice for the first time in the May 2020 session ... in, shall we say, extraordinary circumstances!...
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HL Listening exam 2
This is a complete exam, following the pattern of the new Listening Component. Note that this is an HL exam - the lengths of recordings, the level of difficulty of the texts, and the challenge of the...
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Writing criteria, unpacked Free
Here are the Paper 1 Written Production Criteria organised by bullet-point, in order to make the range of values as clear as possible. Note that: HL and SL distinctions - In Criterion A Language, there...
Writing
Specific text type skills Free
By 'specific skills', I wish to define the kind of approach required for each text type, and the kind of language expected. These can be seen as 'transfer goals' - the term used in the IB's unit plan...
Assessment
HL Sample D
. You can make use of this sample in three ways: Marking standards calibration ... to test whether the way you mark results in the same marks as awarded Guided tour of analysis ... to study the process...
Writing
Opinion column / letter to the editor
NOTE: These two text types are significantly different in that an Opinion column is presumed to be written by a professional journalist, while a Letter to the Editor is presumed to be written by a non-professional...