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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
    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...
  • 7 June 2024
    David Ripley
    Categories overview
    I wouldn't worry about the type of literary analysis for Cat.3, Vanessa. I am not aware that IB has any specific requirements in this area - it is not that there is any specified type of literary analysis for Language B as opposed to Language...
  • 6 June 2024
    Vanessa Mitchell
    Categories overview
    Dear Mr Ripley, thank you so very much for this site. The question and responses above have helped considerably but I just want to confirm please: My student wants to write a Category 3 Essay in Language B (She wants to analyse the way...
  • 6 June 2024
    David Ripley
    2018 Criteria, analysed
    Greetings, Nelson. The simple answer must be that the over-worked staff at IB Cardiff have simply never got round to finding appropriate ones. It does seem rather silly!