May 2022 Exam session: what to expect

Friday 1 April 2022

See below for a reminder of the changes to the IB History exam for May 2022 re number of questions, timing and weighting for each paper.

IB history exams May, 2022

Weighting of papers

The weighting of the papers has not been changed from a 'normal' year:

Timing of exams

Timing for the exams are as follows:

Paper 1 - 1 hour (unchanged)

Paper 2 - 45 minutes

Paper 3 - 1 hour 45 minutes

The number of essays students have to answer for Papers 2 and 3

This has been amended as follows: