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SL Practice Paper 1 (2) 7 December 2022

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SL Practice Paper 1 (1)7 December 2022

To give your students access to this page you will need to change the access from "Filtered student access" to "Direct student access". more

ResourcesFree7 December 2022

In some ways resources are quite personal. I prefer to let my students’ own curiosity guide them initially and allow them to search for their own information using the library or the Internet etc. rather... more

ExamsFree7 December 2022

What you will find in this section“When Prof. Ayrton and I were appointed the first professors of the City and Guilds of London Institute we found ourselves in complete agreement that we would have... more

'Dart board' chemistryFree6 December 2022

This page and the two accompanying links (Chemistry within Group 4 and IB Chemistry teaching) aim to give an overview of how chemistry fits into the IB Diploma programme and how teaching IB chemistry... more

Chemistry within Group 4Free6 December 2022

The IB is structured so that all the sciences share many similar facets[1]. For example, they all share the same aims and objectives. The curriculum model is the same and the syllabi are structured in... more

Group 4 Aims6 December 2022

It may seem self-evident that any decent programme should have clear aims upon which the whole programme is based. The aims for Chemistry, Physics and Biology are identical and are listed on page 18 of... more

For teachers new to IB ChemistryFree6 December 2022

This section of the site is for existing teachers in schools that are taking up (or considering taking up) the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and for those teachers with no previous experience... more

Do you speak IB?6 December 2022

IB - a Danish dray horse at the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen who was born in 1985.IB also stands for International BaccalaureateLike most organisations the IB has generated its own jargon. People familiar... more

Changes to terminology6 December 2022

If you are an experienced teacher of the old (pre-2014) programme then just how well prepared are you for the changes that have occurred in the current 2014 programme which was examined for the first... more