Do Mock Exams Help Our Students?

March 9, 2016
First I must apologize to those of you in the southern hemisphere.  The November session is eons away for you, but for those of us north of the Equator (or south but on the northern school schedule) the IB exams are now 2 months away.  Many schools choose March as the...

The HL option and Paper 3

January 27, 2016
Happy New Year to all of you!  The weather has definitely changed course for most of you, and while most of my posts have been written with a blue sky and warm temperatures, the mountains of New Mexico have had near-record amounts of snow and the temperatures have...

For students: The HL option and Paper 3

January 20, 2016
Happy New Year to all of you!  The weather has definitely changed course for most of you, and while most of my posts have been written with a blue sky and warm temperatures, the mountains of New Mexico have had near-record amounts of snow and the temperatures have...

Changes to the World History Topics and Paper 2

November 2, 2015
At face value, the changes to the World History Topics leave us with the ability to keep things very similar in our curriculum, or modify them wildly if we so prefer.  I am guess that very few of you are going to do the latter, but this is not meant to be dismissive:...

What is new and different with the World History Topics and Paper 2?

October 28, 2015
The main content change is the merger of Routes 1 and 2.  The HL option will still need to be declared, but the new syllabus has 12 topics – 4 that come from the previous 20th century world history topics, 4 from the previous Medieval History topics and 4 from...