LAZILY EFFICIENT IB ENGLISH

Learn to become your own marker.

Practise a specific skill, use feedback to revise it, then assess your own work.

I’m Dilan Abeynarayana, an IB Team Leader Examiner and Language & Literature teacher. I designed this system to make the reasoning required in Paper 1, Paper 2 and the IO explicit, so students can practise it and use feedback to revise their work.

THE DELIBERATE PRACTICE APPROACH

ADD implications.ADD connotations.ADD a logical argument.

Methods and resources for each skill

Criterion	What students add	How they practise it
A · Interpretation	Implications	Break down IDEAs and develop their meaning. Add relevant PACT information in Paper 1. Stages of IDEAs
B · Analysis	Connotations and significance	Deconstruct exact quotations and examples, analyse patterns across the whole text, and compare choices and effects in Paper 2. 3-Step deconstruction PLANE Method Comparative PLANE
C · Organisation	A logical argument	Connect the analysis into a precise, developed answer to the question through TEEAL. Paper 1 TEEAL Paper 2 TEEAL IO TEEAL HL Essay TEEAL DDM