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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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  • 29 April 2024
    David Ripley
    Extended Essay 2018
    An interesting idea, Viktoria, and the student seems to have a sound and methodical approach. However, in my view, this would have to be in Cat.3, since it is based on literary works (the two poems concerned). Certainly, the analysis would...
  • 29 April 2024
    Viktória Albert
    Extended Essay 2018
    Hello David,I’d appreciate your thoughts on my student’s topic for her EE – Cat 1. Language (Language B)She’d like to analyze the way Victorian nonsense poetry works and how we are able to interpret it. The poem she picked is Uffia...
  • 26 April 2024
    Noemi Tello
    Extended Essay 2018
    Thanks a lot David. I'll persuade her to change it, see what happens... Again, thank you very much.
  • 26 April 2024
    David Ripley
    Extended Essay 2018
    No, you can't mix categories, Noemi, it has to be one or the other. It's the fundamental approach that matters. For Cat.2B, the songs would be considered documentary evidence (even if you use some lit.crit. techniques to analyse them); whereas...