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  • Paper 1: new prose fiction response

    New HL Paper 1 response from May 2023 TZ2This week we have published a new Higher Level student's response to the prose extract on the May 2023...

  • Paper 1 revision: poetry

    As the May examinations fast approach, this week we have added another student revision page for Paper 1 with a poem and guiding question. There...

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  • 9 May 2024
    Sarah Winstein-Hibbs
    Internal Assessment
    Hi there! i have a student who is bilingual and would like to bring in a discussion about translation into his oral exam. He will be using Neruda's poetry (originally in Spanish) and Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place. His Global Issue is "the...
  • Hi Kevin. You are correct that this is a flaw in this response and that students should aim to reference at least 2 or 3 short texts.  This from the FAQ on the PRC: When marking paper 2 responses, examiners will be looking for evidence...
  • This does seem like a pretty good response to me, but the student only addresses one poem from each poet. I am trying to show my students some examples of poetry essays, I told them a few months ago when we started prepping to expect to examine...
  • Thanks for clarifying! To be clear, there are some great things here, but when sharing with my students, yes, I did stress some of the issues here (signposting and balance especially). Thank you for the comment! Lit exemplars are hard to come...