Introduction
In this blog post, I will share the writing assignments that I completed for the IB DP English B course, including regular summative assessments and homework assignments. The syllabus is the version for first assessment 2020. All assignments shared here include the stimulus, my answer, teacher’s comment and grading, and sometimes a corresponding draft or outline, all in PDF format. Thanks to my teacher, who gave a lot of great advice!
My got the full score, a 7, for my final grade in English B, and I also got a perfect score for the writing task in the May final exam, so you can trust this study resource.
Most of the assignments were written in a limited time like in exams, but not exactly under exam conditions. When we learned a new text type, we used to get the stimuli before the regular summative test for each unit, so we could write a draft, give it to our teacher for feedback, and then revise it ourselves before taking the test. I certainly took advantage of that opportunity every time to get feedback. There were also some assignments for homework after school, so the timing wasn’t as strict as for the other ones.
This time, I tried to pick high-scoring assignment papers that were in different text types. The papers were pretty spread out over time. They could be considered evenly distributed over the two years of DP.
The information in the assignments was more or less made-up, and they were just a medium for me to demonstrate my language skills. Please don’t take the opinions or “facts” in the assignments too seriously. If you are interested in what was mentioned in an assignment, feel free to look for more reliable sources of information.
My Practice Papers
The table below gives an overview of the assignment content, including the information mentioned above, such as the text type, the topic, the practice condition (whether there was an early draft for feedback), and the score (out of 7 or 30). Click on the links in the “Topic” column to download the corresponding assignment in the row.
- 🟢 represents under exam condition, i.e., no draft, timed, completed in a classroom
- 🟡 represents there was an early draft for feedback, but the final work was still timed and completed in a classroom
- 🔴 represents a more relaxed condition outside of class, i.e., with more time and less stress
You are welcome to use my work, but please note that, unless otherwise stated, all works on this blog, including these scanned PDF documents I’m sharing below, are my original works, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
| Date | Text Type | Topic | Practice Condition | Score |
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| 2019-10-08 | Pamphlet / Brochure | Tourism1 | 🟡 | 29/30 |
| 2019-11-12 | Journal / Diary | Stereotypes2 | 🟡 | 28/30 |
| 2020-01-28 | Speech | Multiculturalism | 🟡 | 30/30 |
| 2020-04-21 | Informal letter (email) | Multiculturalism3 | 🔴 | 7/7 |
| 2020-05-25 | Embedded interview | Sci-fi author | 🟢 | 29/30 |
| 2020-09-22 | Review | Mass incarceration in the US4 | 🟢 | 29/30 |
| 2020-10-06 | News report | Corona | 🟢 | 27/30 |
| 2021-02-05 | Formal letter | Corona school closure | 🔴 | 30/30 |
| 2021-03-15 | Opinion column / Editorial | Beauty and appearance | 🔴 | 30/30 |
| 2021-04-13 | Pamphlet / Brochure | Environment5 | 🟢 | 29/30 |
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The handwriting on this assignment is very light and hard to read. So I’ve shared another assignment in the same text type—Pamphlet / Brochure, which is the last one in the table. ↩︎
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The Danger of a Single Story mentioned in this assignment is a real TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ↩︎
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This PDF file explains some background information about this assignment, which is related to Internment, a novel we studied in class. The author is Samira Ahmed. ↩︎
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The documentary 13th mentioned in this assignment is a real documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. ↩︎
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I answered one of the N20 past paper questions in this assignment, and this PDF file also contains the other two available options on the N20 writing paper. ↩︎