HOW TO SCORE 7 IN IB LIT PAPER 2: a guide to comparative essays (with examples)

[@omthecooldude5886]

Bro I went from a 10/30 in October exams to 21/30 in my Feb mocks. This is lit fam thx. 🔥

[@ashleysacademy7496]

I can imagine all the hard work that must have gone into that! That's so amazing - congrats 😇

[@melitaalmazor8106]

I have my english exams in a week and I was starting to stress out because I feel incredibly unprepared. Also, all the resources I had and videos I had watched had not been useful, but your video really gave me peace of mind and confidence. Thank you so much!!

[@cat-hx1sh]

Same, I’m scared for it

[@ashleysacademy7496]

Ah I'm so glad! Good luck for your English exams 🎉

[@NowyouknowMusic]

Hi Ashley, I'm late to this upload but just wanted to say thank you for using my "lofi rain" track in your video. I really appreciate it! ☔

[@TechToks123]

This is so helpfull thanks went from being stuck in 5s to getting a high 6 in mocks and ill see how I do in the final in a couple days.

[@simonvutov7575]

Thank you, i have a paper 2 mock in 6 days and really grinding this rn

[@SSGMarkus]

This video is underrated, I have a paper 2 internal school assesment coming up in two days, and I found this video very helpful in helping me prepare. Quick question though, is it best to include literary techniques in each paragraph in order to score high in that criterion B section?

[@ashleysacademy7496]

100%! Apart from adding the "similar to/in contrast to [text 1]", I used the same analytical sentence structure for Paper 2 as I discussed in my IB Literature 101 video which includes analysis of literary techniques. It's good if you can make a sentence or two of broad literary comparisons at the beginning of your text 2 paragraphs but this isn't totally necessary if you're in a time crunch, answering a thematic question and are going to integrate literary techniques into your paragraph as you go - good luck for your assessments!

[@iremtuanaciftci]

This video is amazing! Thank you so much for all your efforts

[@plato.t.6193]

hey ashley! thank you so much for the video - it's really enlightening! just asking out of curiosity, in your school, how do the teachers go thru literature lessons? is it mostly group discussion-based with minimal teacher guidance or do the teachers guide the students through the quotes, content etc? just wanted to have a feel of how literature lessons are carried out in different schools, though i firmly believe there's no right or wrong. thank you!! :D

[@ashleysacademy7496]

Hey! At the start of a new text the teachers always gave us a bit of historical/literary context. After that, it depended on the text type really. For poems we would have a line by line discussion with input from both teachers and students. For shorter plays, students would take on different roles and we'd read it out in class and the teacher's would give us insight on the most pivotal scenes. And for novels and longer plays, we'd get into groups and each group would be assigned a few chapters to analyse and present to the class. So overall, they were mostly class discussions but with the teachers helping us to analyse the most significant scenes/quotes. How does that compare to your English class?

[@karens8042]

Thank you for the video

[@cherryblossom4.0]

This is so amazing. What are you doing now? IB teaching could always be your safety

[@anniehuang2241]

Hi Ashley! I am currently in my first year of the IB and was wondering if you can make a video on how to improve your French quickly. I am taking French (B) SL and I saw in a comment from another video that you took French too! If you can make a video on that I would absolutely appreciate it 😊

[@ashleysacademy7496]

hi Annie! Definitely - I was thinking about making two seperate videos. One for learning languages effectively in general and another for IB language exam tips. Is there anything in particular you're finding tricky with French that you'd be interested in me chatting about in either of those?

[@anniehuang2241]

@@ashleysacademy7496 The biggest areas I struggle with are listening and not knowing enough vocab. Sometimes my teacher speaks really fast and I find it hard to always be able to know what they said. So I was wondering if you have tips in regards to expanding range of vocab and how to improve in listening. Thank you for your help! ❤

[@elsjemitchell6438]

Thanks for this video! I have my paper 2 on Thursday (and paper 1 tomorrow) ... 😢 and I have a question: With my last timed practice I took too long figuring out my points when I was planning, and that caused me to run out of time in the beginning of writing the conclusion. What would you recommend as the steps to take in the plan, so that I don't start writing the essay too late but do have a strong idea of what I want to write?

[@andrewhhan]

You had your paper 1 today, right? For the planning section, I try not to spend more than 5 minutes on planning.

[@elsjemitchell6438]

@@andrewhhan Yes, I had it yesterday. When you say planning, do you also include annotating the passage? I also took about 5 minutes planning my essay, but I spent about ten minutes annotating the text.

[@sedaneptun3796]

Hi, when did you start studying for paper 2? Like what month did you start writing practice papers?

[@psyche5751]

had my paper 1 today (it was awful) gonna have my paper 2 tomorrow (I don't even have the quotes properly memorized yet...)

[@TheOGCabbage]

You don't need to memorize the quotes completely. As long as you reference certain parts of the novel you should be fine.

[@psyche5751]

@@TheOGCabbage damn... i ended up memorizing quotes from each major events but I didn't have enough time to discuss all of them so I left a few out... but I ended up finishing one complete essay at least but Im not looking forward to receiving my mark lol

[@TheOGCabbage]

@@psyche5751 If you finished it and used quotes properly, then I'm sure you'll do fine! Good job!

[@rajveerparekh8034]

Do you by any chance offer a bit of tutoring because I'm quite lost with how to approved this course

[@ashleysacademy7496]

Yes, I am doing a bit of online tutoring at the moment! You can email me at [e-mail] to discuss the details :)

[@YashviDhankani-t6c]

what do you mean by theme 1 and theme 2 ?

[@wulislifestyle]

thank youuuuuuuuu

[@lucianaalvesdasilva8774]

WHO CHOOSES THE LITERARY TEXTS? THE STUDENTS, RIGHT?

[@itzme5131]

Yes

[@declspecl]

@@itzme5131 good luck today 🫡

[@ashleysacademy7496]

In case you missed the description, here is the google drive with sample Paper 2s and a pdf of the Paper 2 comparative essay structure drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KKWEOOdbiNbNdPr3rPntqq8bpba0P-X-?usp=sharing

[@giacomo8786]

It doesnt work

[@ashleysacademy7496]

@@giacomo8786 thanks for letting me know! just updated the link and it should work now

[@cat-hx1sh]

I have my exam in a week......

[@phendylASAP]

i hope u fail lawl jk!!! hoping 4 7s all across the board babyy!!!

[@phendylASAP]

haha lawl!