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11 Oct 2026
Reflecting on P2B
In the second year of giving students practice Papers 2, Section B, I see they repeatedly make mistakes evaluating a study. These mistakes reflect more a misunderstanding of the goals of the assessment...
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Dear John, My colleague and I noted that on one of the Sample IAs (MyIB, Sample C), the research method being used is a questionnaire. However, in the research methodology they say that a "two variables...will be correlated to establish...
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Hi John, can you please confirm that for 'Q 4: Desinging an alternative study of the same topic' they can only ever be asked to provide one alternative out of the 4 class practicals, i.e. observation, experiment, interview (focus group), questionnaire?...
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Yes, that would be fine. It will definitely make it clearer for the moderator.
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