One of the greatest and simultaneously most tricky parts of writing IB exams is that your answer will be assessed against a given - and very clear - set of criteria. You might show great understanding of the impacts of a given policy, but if you do not include information from the text in your policy recommendation, for instance, its over. No 7 for you. Do not get me wrong. I instantly fell in love with IB when I first saw the rubrics and I am sure it is the magic solution for ensuring fair grades when you have thousands of students papers to mark. But while we love it, how can we expect students to remember how to write answers for each command term in two or three papers, and across different subjects? Moreover, as rubrics change, how to make sure that students from the first cohort are not penalized as teachers and students are still making themselves familiar with the new syllabus? One major change from the IB Economics syllabus that will first be assessed in 2022 are th...
