IB English Assessments
Assessment RecordInstead of one AP exam, HL English A involves four opportunities for you to show a variety of strengths with the results combined to earn the highest score you can. Each assessment involves writing or speaking about texts studied in the course, however, you must choose different titles for each assessment. This record sheet, filled out by you and signed off by your teacher, is a way to track the texts you have used for each assessment and is also an official and required IB document.
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Overview of IB Assessments
Your overall score for the IB exam consists of 4 parts -
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Paper 1: Guided Textual Analysis (2 hours 30 min) |
Paper 2: Comparative Essay (1 hour 45 minutes)
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In a timed setting, this portion of the IB Assessment is administered in May of year 2 of HL English A.
It is scored by an external examiner (someone not affiliated with your school) and consists of two previously unseen non-literary passages, from two different text types, each accompanied by a question. Students will be asked to write a separate analysis of each of the passages focusing on the technical or formal aspect the respective accompanying questions propose, or another similar aspect of the student’s choice. Rubric |
The paper consists of four general questions. In response to ONE of those questions, students will be asked to write a comparative essay based on two works studied in the course.
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