(This is mainly for Y12 & 13 but Y8 might currently find it insightful!)
I'm sitting in a great IB training session and I'm going to be blogging some top tips for IB A1. This first session is on Paper 1. Tips are as follows:
1. Practise!
2. Concentrate on the power and significance of individual words or phrases.
3. "The passages are not puzzles, with correct (but hidden) answers".
4. Don't 'over-annotate' during the planning stage. Yes, everything is done for a reason but you only have 1.5 hrs to write about it all. A few points per paragraph will be enough 'fuel' for this.
5. Be aware that some things in texts are deliberately ambiguous - we all like 'correctness' and 'the right answer', but sometimes it's not possible to reach definitive meaning. All you can do is acknowledge the ambiguity and go through the alternatives, demonstrating their likelihood and their implications. It's fine to take this approach.
Some more tips to follow.
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