Assessment (2021 exams)

In these pages you can find all you need to know about assessment for the English A: Language and Literature course.
For each form of assessment, the basic requirements have been outlined in detail.
Useful tips on how to approach each form of assessment have also been included.

A bank of sample responses, specimen papers and recordings of internal assessment are provided.
Prepare for exams by applying the assessment criteria to the sample responses.
Many lessons can be found in this section to help develop the necessary skills for each form of assessment.

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Paper 1 includes two unseen non-literary texts or text extracts. SL students write a guided textual analysis about one of...
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This individual oral exemplar is excellent for us teachers. Here’s why. The student has done some questionable things....
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The IB has defined global issues in the following manner: (a) they have significance on a wide/large scale; (b) they are...
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The individual oral is a 10-minute oral followed by five minutes of teacher questions. It is worth 20% of the student’s...
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Before you conduct your Individual Oral, you should become familiar with the corresponding assessment criteria. You can...
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The Individual Oral tests various skills. As the course aims to develop the powers of expression and communication, students...
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