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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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  • 14 May 2024
    David Ripley
    Categories overview
    I'm afraid this subject cannot be done as an English B EE, Inkeri. If you consult the page Cat.2 Clarified , you'll see that the IB specifically excludes 'sports' as 'cultural artifacts'. Also, remember that Cat.2B should always be focused...
  • 14 May 2024
    Inkeri Book
    Categories overview
    One of my students is keen on writing the EE on badminton but the problem is that she hasn´t got a clear where to put focus on the topic. Could one way of looking at this topic to write about the origin of the sport ( India and British soldiers...
  • 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...