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Stockholm, Sweden, 20 - 22 September 2024
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The Extended Essay in DP Language B
Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2024
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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...
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A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...
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- Hello David and this lovely community, after reading the previous comments I realized that my student's RQ does not fall into Cat. 2B since she's not using any artifact. In the beginning, she was going to analyze the impact of Malala Yousafzai's...
- There were no subheadings no byline as indicated to follow in the text type . It was very casually written and I would have scored this as a grade 5. Do we know what the overall grade was ?
- I think it is more like Cat.2B, Jana - the emphasis of the RQ is more on 'representations' and 'narratives' in a particular social context, rather than language itself. It depends how the student handles the topic, but safer in Cat.2B, I feel.
- Thank you, David! Would this be Cat.2a?