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  • Prejudices

    A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...

  • Handwriting

    How do we write? Or, to be more precise, how do we expect, or require, our students to write? I have recently read an article in El Pais on...

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  • 29 March 2024
    David Ripley
    HL Orals
    No, Katie - excessive length of an interview has no effect at all on the marking. Yes, examiners are instructed to simply stop listening at the 15 minute mark, but the student's general level of performance will be perfectly clear at that point,...
  • 29 March 2024
    Katie White
    HL Orals
    Hi David,I have noticed when grading my orals that in one case the timing is off (my fault) with one being as long as 19mins. How strict are the IB with it and could this affect the student's grades? I read that officially the moderators will...
  • 28 March 2024
    Ceridwen Rilstone
    Cat.2 clarified
    Yes, I think she could definitely take that approach, and it certainly makes sense to me. Thank you for your reply - it has helped me make sense of it in my head so that I can guide her. Have a good long weekend, if you are having one!
  • 28 March 2024
    David Ripley
    Listening questions
    Yes, Joyce, I believe that this would be acceptable - allow 'head' as equivalent to 'heads' which is more grammatically correct. The principle informing such decisions is that grammar should not influence the mark unless an error blurs the...

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