IBDP English A: Language & Literature

P2 - Examination Questions

Paper 2 - Planning during the Exam

This page will help you with exactly how you use your planning time in the examination, to give you a structure that will allow you to answer the question and to show your skill at analysis and evaluation. Whatever is asked of you in Paper 2,...

StudyIB Free Weekend Free

Try before you Buy This coming weekend - March 9th and 10th, 2024 - StudyIB are running a Free Weekend! This is a great opportunity for you to browse the site and its offerings, look at exemplar student work, study tips, ideas for the assessment...

How can I succeed in English A? Free

What could I be doing now? As the evenings get lighter for our Northern Hemisphere friends, it's that time of the year again to ask what I could be doing to succeed in English A. The simple answer: subscribe to this site! If you are an IB1 student,...

Individual Oral

Individual Oral - To mock, or not to mock?

Your school is probably giving you a mock individual oral, perhaps very soon in the summer term of IB1. This page will give you some guidance on the value of a mock IO, as well as some helpful tips on how to prepare.

HL Essay

HL Essay - Gaining Level 7

Being able to see really good model examples is essential to learning skills. All the better if those models are truly assessed by examiners as part of a session, and if they adhere to our guidelines for organising and structuring an excellent...

Individual Oral

Individual Oral - Establishing a Global Issue

For the Individual Oral, the examiners tell us that establishing and articulating an effective global issue is key to success. On this page you'll find a series of videos to help you to this end.  

Individual Oral

Individual Oral - Bodies of Work

Christmas: a time for giving... not to mention a time for rapacious marketing and commodification of love, relationships and the joy of family.

P2 - Examination Questions

Paper 2 - Examination Questions

This section will give you access to examination questions and responses, leading to detailed guides and analyses on how to write an effective response and examiners' feedback. May 2023 will be the first time that Paper 2 is examined for this...

P1 - Examination Questions

Paper 1 - Examination Questions

This section will give you access to examination questions and responses, leading to detailed guides and analyses on how to write an effective response and examiners' feedback. By definition, Paper 1 is an unseen text analysis.

HL Essay

HL Essay - Great Examples (Non-literary Bodies of Work)

As an HL student thinking about writing your HL Essay, you will need to make a choice between writing about a literary work or a non-literary work/non-literary body of work. Some of these terms may be confusing. A literary work includes things...

P2 - Examination Questions

Paper 2 - Exemplar Response

This page will provide you not only with authentic student responses to specimen questions, but also with examiners' feedback, and a narrated explanation of what the student did well. How do two of the works you have studied portray the struggle...

Paper 1

Paper 1 - Dealing with Infographics

This page will help you deal with infographics, which is important for Paper 1.

Individual Oral - it's that time again Free

Articulating Global Issues It's that time again. For some of us, at least. I'm prepared to bet that someone, somewhere, Northern or Southern Hemisphere, some of you are gearing up for your Individual Orals. Or just starting the process. Or identifying...

M23 Examinations Calling Free

Last-Minute Exam Revision You're and M23 IBDP student and you're closing in on your final examinations in English A: Language & Literature. On Wednesday 3rd May you have your Paper 1; on Thursday 4th, Paper 2. Is it too late, or is there anything...

Paper 1

Paper 1 - Student Examples: Comic Strip

This page will help you to consider the textual analysis of a comic strip, and allow you to assess student work.

P1 - Examination Questions

Paper 1 - M22 Responses

This page will provide you not only with authentic examination responses for students taking Paper 1 in M22, but also with examiners' feedback, and a narrated explanation of what the student did well. Examiner how the narrative voice is used...

P2 - Examination Questions Free

This section will help you specifically with the skill of preparing for success in the Paper 2 examination. This examination is writing a comparative literary essay on two works of literature studied.

What can I do now? (Southern Hemisphere) Free

New Year's Resolutions in the South Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023! As a student of English A: Language & Literature studying in the Southern Hemisphere, what can I be doing now to improve my chances of success? Read on for tips and advice:

What can I do now? (Northern Hemisphere) Free

New Year's Resolutions in the North Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023! As a student of English A: Language & Literature studying in the Northern Hemisphere, what can I be doing now to improve my chances of success? Read on for tips and advice:

P1 - Examination Questions Free

Understanding the types of questions you will be asked, and the types of texts you will need to respond to, will help you perform to your best in the Paper 1 assessment: a guided textual analysis of previously unseen texts. What will I get? This...