IBDP English A: Language & Literature

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...

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Free Access for Basic Subscribers If you are a basic subscriber you will have free access to all the site pages on Saturday and Sunday, 4th and 5th February! Check out all the resources available to help you with your EngLangLit revision. If...

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:

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.

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.

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...

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...

P1 - Examination Questions

Paper 1 - M21 Responses

After all of the speculation, what have the Paper 1 examinations looked like and how are they assessed? The first examinations were in May 2021, and Paper 1 contained an article from the New York Times magazine, alongside an infographic. While...

Paper 1

Paper 1 - Writing Guiding Questions

Paper 1 is a guided textual analysis and - as we know from the Subject Guide and from the Subject Report - it is imperative to structure your response around the guiding question or statement. This page will help you on what those look like.

What's new? Free

What's new for EngLangLit revision? With the new school year successfully afoot and the Class of 2023 navigating IA deadlines, Extended Essays, and as much curricula learning as possible in the classrooms across the globe, pragmatic attentions...

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...

Paper 1

Paper 1 - Dealing with Infographics

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

Individual Oral

Individual Oral - The Basics

This page gives you a clear and basic introduction to the Individual Oral. Later pages, provide you with tips, models, and activities to help you develop the understandings and skills to confidently deliver great oral presentations that help...

Preparing for M23 Free

What will the new academic year hold? For many of us, August or September marks the start of a new academic year and the commencement of the final furlong for the May 2023 cohort. For Language A: Language & Literature, this also represents the...

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.

Individual Oral

Individual Oral - Boiling it down

Now you're familiar with the nature of the Individual Oral, this page is a quick guide into exactly what you need to do to prepare for the big assessment in the weeks building up to finalising and presenting your Individual Oral.

Paper 1

Paper 1 - Tackling Exam Day

This page gives you a six-minute video overview of what you need to do, with the Paper 1 examination fast approaching, to prepare yourself for examination day.    

M22 Examinations Calling Free

Are you ready for May 12th? For all students of the M22 session, May 12th is the red-letter day for the Paper 1 examination for English A: Language & Literature. And the burning question on all of (y)our lips right now is: Am I ready? What...