Study Skills - Paper 1 - Approaches to Unseen Commentary-
Paper 1 - Unseen Commentary
Students of the IBDP must be already aware of the details of this paper and its weightage in the overall assessment. If you are unsure, make sure to read the "SUBJECT GUIDE".
In this segment, students are expected to write at least 4-5 A4 sides of commentary/analysis on an unseen ‘extract’, with a choice of poem or prose. Standard Level, unlike Higher Level students, are given a set of ‘guiding questions’ to help the student structure the commentary.
I have started creating customized lessons in the form of *.pdf s that are free and accessible for viewing and downloading.
Hope they are useful.
Cheers!
4 Comments - Click Here to Add Your Comment!:
Thankzzzzzzz !!!....... I am planning to print the criteria. I was so confused & my mom was after my life to try papers...
Can you provide more such documents.
Thanks for downloading the document, ShriyaaS. More documents will be shortly available on this blog.
All the best!
Hello. I want to know more about what we need to write in it. I mean, the content structure. My teacher has said that the essay needs to bring in as much information as pocssible.
and ,when do we know if we have interpreted incorrectly????
Hi ruler.jack,
I am adding in a sample commentary for prose and poetry with a sample answer key. Hope that helps.
All the best!
Information is important. But, you must know how to convert any information into analytical sentence structures. Thats what examiners will be looking out for while reading a commentary.
There is no one correct method. Infact to adjudge one method as a prototype is incorrect.
The beauty of literature is that it can be read and analysed in myriad ways and expressed in many different contexts.
Just be sure that you have put in what is expected of you to.
All the best!
Post a Comment