Exam techniques and essay notes

For all you IB students that need a guide to make a proper essay 

A useful checklist of things to include in your essays.

those notes analyze several factors and devices of the book 'heart of darkness'. 

notes on how to do well in IB English 

How to cope with exam stress, especially now that it's just a few months away.

atwood poems

How to make a good oral presentation.

power point on how to better your writing skills with imagery

CATSDRIFT is a mnemonic that can be used while analyzing a text to cover key points that can fetch extra points.

Very useful literary terms to consider when analysing literature in exams.

One of the techniques our teacher used to help develop our paper 2 skills in English was to give us a part of an IB question which focussed on one literary aspect. Then she would give us 15 minutes to write up to 500 words on that topic and then grade it by IB standards.
It was her way of quizzing us (or as we thought of it, torturing us). This essay prompt was finally the one I got right midway through IB Year 2. The questions was to characterise eccentricities or duality in a character of one of our books. I picked Shakespeare and analysed Gertrude.
This paper received a solid 7 because it had all the pertinent IB analysis in/under 15 minutes, and showed what set of skills one needed to possess to thrive under exam conditions.
I would suggest that if you think that you write well in general, but the times exams are too much for you, this technique would help you heaps and you can hold this response as what a 7 in this technique looks like. If you master this, your Paper 2 (and to an extent Oral Commentary) will suddenly become a lot easier. That I can guarantee from experience.

Just some notes on how to approach unseen poetry for the English A1 exam

WL1 topic examples and guide on how to identify a suitable WL topic

this is a recommended format of IOC -- the way you should structure your speech

My friend and I wrote a textbook worth of stuff for how to prepare for the IOC that contained notes about every possible passage that could be chosen-300 of them. We did this i a notebook. Before the actual notes, we had a four page section detailing study techniques and tips for the actual IOC. This is what is detailed in this file.

this is how one should approach and what one should write in eng A1 papers..
hope it helps..

How to approach a commentary for an unseen Prose piece

A table summarising the arguments and satirical language features of 7 Jonathon Swift essays. With Quotations.

The most important literary terms for literature analysis

Planning and writing your commentary in 9 steps.