The Pitchforks are Coming
Read the following stimulus text, guiding question and the student's response. Apply the P1 assessment criteria and discuss the marks that you would award the script before reading the examiner's marks and comments. How different were your marks and comments from the examiner's marks and comments? What improvements could be made to this student's response, in order to achieve better results?
P1 Stimulus text: The Pitchforks are ComingStudent response
Paper 1 assessment criteria SL/HL
Examiner's comments and marks
Marking notes
Model response
ATLs
The IB states that good teaching is informed by assessment. What's the difference between a 6 and a 7 response? This student response is a 6. This model response is a 7. Can you spot the difference? Before you can write level-7 responses, you have to study many models.
Assessment
Is this text a website, opinion piece or memo? It's an opinion piece, published on a website in the disguise of a memo. Would the IB ever set such an exam text? In fact this stimulus text is an old exam text! As you consider text type, consider that text types are rarely clearly defined. Nor are you expected to use simplistic labels, such as 'advertisement'. Instead, you may need terms like 'print ad', 'infomercial' or 'advertorial'. Focus on purpose, audience and context as you aim to define the type of stimulus text.
Related pages
- Text types: Opinion piece
- Paper 1: Grade boundaries
- Paper 1 example: Why I want a wife (coming soon)