The secret of an 8 mark IB question

Every year as I mark students’
work both in SL and HL
Economics, helping them prepare
for the ‘big 8 marker’ in paper
2, I read the same mistakes over
and over again. Students seem to
forget everything they have been
taught regarding development
economics and they freeze. Many
students seem to panic and so, to
fill in the time, think copying and re-writing (often large) sections from the text into their answerwill somehow ‘fool’ the examinerand they will get a good mark for
their essay. They won’t.

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