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Advice to students	Objectives & command terms
Enquiry upon results	Predicted grades
Essential Facts	Introduction

Summary

Tips to give to students on how to maximise their marks on each of the three exam papers
Specific details of areas of difficulty on Paper 2 and how to teach your students to overcome them
Fun ways of understanding objectives and using command terms
Full explanation of grade descriptors and grade boundaries

Advice and examples to prepare your students for data response questions
Full details on the whole examination process from how the exams are written to how they are marked and graded
Advice on how to arrive at predicted grades
Why your feedback on the G2 forms is important
Information and advice on Enquiry upon Results (EUR) and retakes

Selected Pages

'Curly arrows'

The correct use of curly arrows causes real problems – both to students (and teachers) and examiners. The main reason why students fail to score marks is that they use the arrows... more»
Advice to students - free

1. Revision. As for Paper 1 go through the syllabus thoroughly checking that you know and understand each Assessment Statement on the Core for SL and on the Core and AHL for HL. 2.... more»
Essential Facts - free

The external assessment is made up of three separate examination papers. These make up 76% of the final mark upon which the student’s IB grade is based. The remaining 24% comes from... more»
Grade boundaries

It can be helpful to have a rule of thumb idea as to where the boundaries lie - particularly for giving your predicted grades. It can only be a rough rule as... more»
IE graph(s)

Explaining the shapes of ionization energy graphs tends to be more of a problem at Higher Level than Standard Level where a more detailed explanation involving sub-levels is required. Even so, Standard... more»
Areas of difficulty

I’ve been marking IB Chemistry papers now for a long time and there are several areas that every year many students seem to find particularly difficult. Some of these (such as hybridization)... more»