On this, the third of three posts to make sure you score full marks on your Economics Internal Assessments, I want to give you a detailed checklist you can use to check your own work. I have included what the IB says they expect for full marks, and translated that into actionable steps.
How to Structure an Economics IA
This post will go through what you should write in your Economics IA, with step-by-step instructions and with word counts for each section. What you need to know before you write: 1) Avoid writing anything that isn’t going to earn you marks. You’re going to need all the words you can get for your analysis [...]
How to Write the Economics Internal Assessment (Getting Started)
The next 3 posts will provide you with a bullet-proof system for scoring full marks on your Economics Internal Assessments, following the new 2013 syllabus. The IA is a brilliant opportunity to put some marks in the bank and make that 6 or 7 in the course much easier to achieve. This first article will [...]
The Theory of the Firm Rappers
Theory of the firm (ToF) is hard. Well, it can be. (Hey, I just noticed ToF=tough. That can’t be a coincidence). The first year I taught IB Economics, my students really struggled with the diagrams and all of the memorization in this part of the course. But if there’s something I love it’s taking something [...]
How to Make Your Good Extended Essay Great
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know I’m all about finding systems and structures to make challenging things less challenging. Or, to put it more simply, I like to do things the easy way. To that end, I want to show you how to make a few tweaks to your average [...]
Resources
The site is getting over 200,000 views a year now! That triples the number of readers I had just a year ago. To make it easier for all of you to use, I thought I should create a central resource page with all of the important stuff on it. If you’re looking for something really useful, it’s [...]
How to Structure Your Economics Essay
It’s important to use your time efficiently on economics exams. In the new (2013) syllabus, you only get 45 minutes per essay. And that’s not much time to do everything you need to do. It’s easy to waste time (i.e with introductions or descriptive writing) that earn you no marks at all. If you use [...]
How to be a Successful Student
Ask questions when you don’t understand something and when you do. All of my classes are about questioning what we know, how we know it and how we change (and our actions change) as a result of knowing. So if I introduce something in class that you don’t get, stop me. If someone else offers [...]
The 99 Best Economics Resources
Essentials You can download the new economics course guide here: 2013 Guide. And for those still on the old guide that one is here 2003 Guide. The IB Course Companion is written specifically for this course. It is very readable and easy to understand. The Economics for the IB Diploma book is also very good. It’s perhaps [...]
The Straight A Students Time Management Secret
This is your lucky day. You are finally going to find out the secret time-management weapon which has only been known to a few wildly successful students. Until now. (WARNING: Do not read this unless you are prepared for incredible academic success! However, if ready to have your life completely changed, read on.) I have [...]
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