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  Assessment

  Practising Paper 2 reading

  .Examples of the various types of question used in Paper 2 are scattered around the site, usually in the handouts provided to support texts for reading.The listing below gives you links so that you can...

  8 February 2024
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  Writing

  Text type expectations Free

  To put it another way, how will they be expected to handle each text type in Paper 1: Productive skills - writing? Basically, what instructions do we give the students ... what plans do we provide them,...

  15 November 2023
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  Assessment

  Listening exam 1

  This is a complete exam, following the pattern of the new Listening Component. I would immediately point out that it is in no way an 'official' example. I have not seen the specifications in instructions...

  8 December 2022
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  Assessment

  Sample Paper 1 tasks

  This page sets out to provide a range of sample tasks such as may be set in Paper 1 Writing. These can be used for practice in class work, or for use in mock exams.The tasks have been based on real questions...

  3 February 2023
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  Assessment

  HL Orals

  Let's just remind ourselves of the basic requirements of the HL Individual Interview:Supervised preparation time - 20 minutesThe student is presented with two extracts (one from each of the two literary...

  17 June 2022
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  Assessment

  Listening exam 2

  This is a complete exam, following the pattern of the new Listening Component.Note that this is an HL exam - the lengths of recordings, the level of difficulty of the texts, and the challenge of the questions...

  8 December 2022
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  Assessment

  Listening exam 3

  This is a complete exam, following the pattern of the new Listening Component.Note that this is an HL exam - the lengths of recordings, the level of difficulty of the texts, and the challenge of the questions...

  3 March 2024
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  Writing

  Opinion column / letter to the editor

  NOTE: These two text types are significantly different in that an Opinion column is presumed to be written by a professional journalist, while a Letter to the Editor is presumed to be written by a non-professional...

  6 May 2023
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  Assessment

  Paper 1 Video Walkthrough

  The Paper 1 assessment criteria awards students up to 12 marks for their use of language but up to 18 marks for the quality of their ideas. Failing to read (and understand) the prompt can result in students...

  21 February 2024
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  Assessment

  Listening exam 4

  Here is another complete exam, following the pattern of the new Listening Component.Note that this is an HL exam - the lengths of recordings, the level of difficulty of the texts, and the challenge of...

  28 December 2022
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  Assessment

  Paper 2 Listening Free

  Remember, here is the basic structure of the Paper 2 Comprehension component:-Listening & Reading paper (Paper 2 / Assessment 2)SL - Listening: 45 min + Reading: 1 hrHL - Listening: 1 hr + Reading: 1hr

  2 January 2023
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  Writing

  Interview

  There are two common varieties of 'interview': the 'transcribed' and the 'embedded'. The Transcribed Interview reads like a script, being an accurate transcription of the words used, without commentary...

  12 December 2023
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  Assessment

  Paper 1 sample exam 1

  This sample exam paper is designed and written to reflect the specifications of the Paper 1 Writing from May 2020.Each question contains the following basic elements:a context

  4 December 2022
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  Writing

  Specific text type skills Free

  By 'specific skills', I wish to define the kind of approach required for each text type, and the kind of language expected. These can be seen as 'transfer goals' - the term used in the IB's unit plan...

  13 November 2023
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  Writing

  Article

  context, audience, purpose - * the context of the article will usually be set out briefly in the question: e.g the background to the subject matter of the article* the audience will usually be indicated...

  8 February 2023
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  Writing

  Proposal

  context, audience, purpose - * the context will be explained in the question - at least, the basic background, since the main content of the proposal itself will be what the student will have to invent,...

  22 January 2022
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  Assessment

  Paper 2 Reading

  Remember, here is the basic structure of the Paper 2 Comprehension component:-Listening & Reading paper (Paper 2 / Assessment 2)SL - Listening: 45 min + Reading: 1 hrHL - Listening: 1 hr + Reading: 1hr

  9 November 2022
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  Assessment

  Orals: what's expected? Free

  The procedure for the Oral Individual Interview, introduced by the 2018 Subject Guide, was put into practice for the first time in the May 2020 session ... in, shall we say, extraordinary circumstances!

  1 October 2023
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  Assessment

  Listening Tasks Free

  Opening Gambit:"Listen to this (audio recording / video) ... and I want you to pick out ..."We all have ears, but do we hear? Listening is an undervalued skill, because the basic process is automatic...

  24 January 2024
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  Assessment

  Paper 1

  Remember, here is the basic specification of the Paper 1 :-Writing paper (Paper 1 / Assessment 1)SL - 1 hr 15 min (for 250-400 words)HL - 1 hr 30 min (for 450-600 words)NOTE: There is now no word-count...

  15 March 2024