IB Economics Teaching Resources

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...

This   file  will help your students understand the structure and the demands of their Paper 3, the policy paper. It explains the structure of the paper and what the student has to do for each question. It also has links to other useful files that cover the skills needed to write an IB economics Paper 3 as how to write evaluate questions and to draw diagrams.

This file provides a nice overview of the main points you should know about diagrams in your IB economics exams.