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IB TESTING

I know that I haven't posted in a while. This is why I have decided to tell you about what it is that has caused me to have to not talk with you all recently. IB testing. I had told you about the terrors of IB scheduling, and here is how it's going so far. One thing you have to know about IB tests: some years, one subject is killer and another is not that bad. In fact, the IB teachers classify the years sometimes as "the year that the Japanese test murdered" or "that one year where the History questions were gorgeous." So, we'll go in chronological order: English A1 HL Paper 1: You get about a page of prose and an approximately page long poem (give or take). You pick one or the other, and you have 2 hours to write a commentary on it. That means describe the general feel, reference the literary techniques that achieve this effect and kind of tie it all together with what this means in the larger scheme. The "why do we care?" aspect. This went