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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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  • 13 May 2024
    David Ripley
    Extended Essay 2018
    In principle, William, a television series is acceptable as source material for Cat.2B. However... (i) the purpose must be to explore and analyse something about Anglophone culture; and this means that (ii) it can't just be critical criticism...
  • 13 May 2024
    William Cook
    Extended Essay 2018
    Hi David! One of my students wants to write her EE on the "Anne with an E" TV series. Would that be considered a "Spoken document / Television programme"? If possible to choose that for her EE, could she possibly formulate a research question...
  • 10 May 2024
    Noemi Tello
    Extended Essay 2018
    Thanks a lot.
  • 10 May 2024
    David Ripley
    Extended Essay 2018
    I know of no rule that says you can't use 'bad language' in the evidence for an EE, Noemi. The student herself shouldn't use bad language, of course - but if the swear words are in the songs, that's the reality.