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Notes on what actually stalls a student, what the exam boards do and do not have in common, and what the records have to show before anybody can say which problem you are dealing with.
Most MYP students revise as if the e-assessment were a content test. It is not. It is marked against criteria, on screen, against the clock — and each of those three costs marks in a different way. Here is what to check before the next mock.
A strong student can understand the subject and still lose a grade on the IA. Not because the IA is harder than the exam, but because it is marked on different criteria, moderated by someone who never met the student, and run on a deadline nobody chases. Here is where the marks go.
More hours is the instinct and usually the wrong move. A student stalls in one of three ways — they are not turning up, not doing the work, or not understanding it — and the fix differs each time. Here is how to tell which, using records you can gather this week.
Most families never choose their board — the school does. The decision that is still yours is which papers the student practises on, and getting that wrong is more expensive than most people realise. Here is what genuinely differs between the two, and the one thing to find out from school this week.
Tell us about the student and the last set of results, and we will tell you which of the three problems you are dealing with — including when the answer is that you do not need us.