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  • To B or Not to B?

    The IBDP is notoriously tough, and for good reason. Perhaps understandably, students (and their parents) will look to game the system if they...

  • Prejudices

    A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...

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  • 10 June 2024
    David Ripley
    Extended Essay 2018
    I'm afraid, Gabriela, that I don't know anything about this 'Bojack Horseman' (despite the remarkable name!). However, I can say something about the RQ - as it stands, it neither fits into Cat.3, despite the mentions of critique and parody,...
  • 10 June 2024
    David Ripley
    Cat.2 clarified
    I can see the general approach, Laura, but like you I would be concerned about the factual support. She can analyse what the screenplay itself shows about expectations - but how does one substantiate those expectations with objective facts,...
  • 10 June 2024
    Gabriela Muñoz
    Extended Essay 2018
    Dear David,I need your important advice on a topic a student of mine is really keen about for her EE. It is about a sitcom called Bojack Horseman and her potential RQ is: How does Bojack Horseman represent the difference between real life and...
  • 10 June 2024
    laura vandevelde
    Cat.2 clarified
    Hi David! I've got a student who wants to write about the screenplay 'An education'. She's thinking about focusing on the expectations people had of women (girls) in terms of education in the 60s and compare that to expectations nowadays. The...