Shankar Mutneja

  IBDP • Revision & Exam Prep • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How to Improve From a 5 to a 7 in IB Subjects A 5 in an IB subject often represents a genuinely frustrating place to be — clearly not struggling with the basics, clearly capable of […]

  IBDP • Revision & Exam Prep • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How to Use IB Past Papers Effectively for Revision Past papers are, without much competition, the single most valuable revision resource available to an IB student — and also one of the most commonly misused. Many

  IBDP • Assessment & Exams • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How IB Exams Are Marked: Examiner Insights for Students Most students spend two years preparing for IB exams without ever really understanding what happens to their paper after they hand it in. The process can feel almost

  IBDP • Assessment & Exams • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners IB Grade Boundaries Explained: How Many Marks You Need for a 7 Somewhere in every IB student’s journey, usually right after a mock exam result comes back, the same question surfaces: exactly how many marks do I

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How Important Are IAs for Your Final IB Grade? It’s a question we hear constantly from both students and parents, usually somewhere around the middle of Year 12, once the IA workload starts competing seriously with exam-style revision:

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners Common IB IA Mistakes That Stop Students Scoring a 7 There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes with an IA mark that doesn’t match the effort behind it — hours in the lab, dozens of pages of

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners IB IA Marking Criteria Explained: How Examiners Award Marks Most students read their subject’s IA criteria once, near the start of the process, and then don’t look at them again until their teacher hands back a marked draft.

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How to Choose the Perfect IB IA Research Question If there’s one piece of advice that shows up in almost every IB subject guide, in almost identical language, it’s this: the quality of your research question determines the

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners The Complete IB Internal Assessment Guide: How IAs Are Graded Ask any IB Diploma student which piece of coursework caused them the most stress across two years, and the Internal Assessment is almost always in the running alongside

IBDP Core • CAS • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners The Complete IB CAS Guide: Ideas, Reflections and Requirements Of the three DP core elements, CAS — Creativity, Activity, Service — is the one students most often underestimate, right up until the final months of Year 13 when a