EXAMEN – MAI 2012 – PREMIÈRES- NIVEAU MOYEN
A FRIENDLY GUIDE TO YOUR DREADED EXAM
·Spread out your revisions. Do not leave everything for the last minute. It will avoid a lot of stress!
·It is better to revise a little often than all at once> your brain will retain the information better!
PAPER 1
WHAT TO REVISE?
- Hopefully you have already compiled a list of vocabulary for each topic – not only the lists I gave you, but also the vocabulary that we came across during reading comprehensions. > If you haven’t done them yet, it is never too late, but you need to hurry up!!!GOOGLE DOCUMENTS
- Then you need to revise and learn the vocabulary
- It is also useful to make a list of synonyms as this is the type of questions that come up very often in IB papers.
PAPER 1 – NIVEAU MOYEN – NOTE SUR 21
2 textes Niveau Moyen
Types de questions et tuyaux
- question à choix multiples: il faut procéder par élimination. Il vous restera souvent 2 possibilités, alors reportez-vous au texte pour le sens de la phrase.
- trouver une expression dans le texte: il faut bien lire la question pour voir dans quelle partie du texte il faut lire et sélectionner le mot ou l’expression correcte. (PAS DE MOTS SUPERFLUS)
- choisir des phrases vraies parmi une liste où certaines phrases sont fausses: il faut lire la partie du texte et choisir en essayant de comprendre le texte le mieux possible.
- grammaire (pronoms-à qui ou à quoi se rapportent / se réfèrent les mots suivants): il faut aussi procéder par élimination en vous rappelant des règles de grammaire et en regardant le genre des mots (masculin ou féminin), le nombre des mots (singulier ou pluriel) et les prépositions suivants les verbes (à, de ou rien)
- trouver le but du texte: procéder par élimination, mais faites attention parce que les phrases sont souvent très proches.
- autres tuyaux: les questions sont en général dans l’ordre. Donc si vous ne connaissez pas une réponse, passez à la suivante et avec un peu de chance vous saurez y répondre, ce qui veut dire que la réponse à la question précédente est avant. Mais les questions peuvent être aussi dans le désordre si on vous indique exactement le paragraphe.
PAPER 2
- Make a list of all the types of mistakes that you usually make, learn the corrections.
- Revise vocabulary related to topics that we did this year: Here is a reminder:
> Family, family relationships, friendship, love and marriage
> Education: school subjects and opinions, school systems, IB, etc...
If you want to score the best marks for language, you need to use a variety of structures, tenses, idiomatic expressions, connectors etc.(see writing check list, bonnes expressions, mots de liaison)
PAPER 2 – NIVEAU MOYEN
- Choix entre 4 sujetsse référant à la famille, l’éducation
- FORMATS:
> Page de journal intime
> Discours
> Article de journal
TUYAUX
You will have only 5 mns reading time for the whole paper, I would advise to go to paper 2 and chose your essay title during this time.
PAPER 1
Try to do the readings in less than an hour so that you have more time for the writing.
Never leave blanks!
If you have a doubt for one question, put the answer anyway and put a question mark next to it to be able to go back to it if you have time. If you put 2 answers the first one count!
PAPER 2
> Chose the topic according to the format, the vocabulary that you know
> Read the instructions carefully
> Use the correct style and register according to the task set.
> Make sure that you answer all parts of the question.
> Take a good care of your presentation (writing, lay out, words crossed out, capital letters, use of bold print, underlining titles, punctuation…)
> Once you have selected the topic:
- Think about good expressions and grammar to incorporate (refer in your mind to the writing check list)
- Write down all your ideas
- organise your ideas into a plan by putting numbers next to your ideas
- You could write the introduction in rough first, but do not write the whole paper in rough and then copy it down. You won’t have enough time for this
- Keep enough time to check your work carefully (10 mns)
- Make sure you have the required number of words: between 250 and 400 – NO MORE NO LESS, otherwise you loose 1 point in the final grade.
IB MARK SCHEME:
-LANGUAGE: Command of the language, vocabulary, sentence structures = 10
-MESSAGE: Communication, ideas, development and supporting details = 10
-FORMAT: Lay out and rhetorical devices = 5
-TOTAL = /25