IB English A Lang & Lit HL · 2023 to 2025
2.5 Personal & literary forms
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2.5 Personal & literary forms
Latest exam session: May 2021
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Micro-topics in 2.5 Personal & literary forms
In syllabus order. The ring is the share of papers each appears in. 5 of them have no matching questions in this archive.
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2.5.2
No question tagged to this topic in the 29 English A HL papers analysed
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No question tagged to this topic in the 29 English A HL papers analysed
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last May 21 P1 TZ1
2.5.5
Text type: the literary extract
No question tagged to this topic in the 29 English A HL papers analysed
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Exam pattern
How often each micro-topic has been examined, year by year. Each label is explained under the grid.
Does it repeat?
Questions per year for each micro-topic, including those with no matches in this archive.
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| Micro-topic | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Text type: the essay, 2021: 1 question | ·Text type: the essay, 2022: 0 questions | ·Text type: the essay, 2023: 0 questions | ·Text type: the essay, 2024: 0 questions | ·Text type: the essay, 2025: 0 questions | ·Text type: the essay, 2026: 0 questions | |
| ·Text type: the memoir extract, 2021: 0 questions | ·Text type: the memoir extract, 2022: 0 questions | ·Text type: the memoir extract, 2023: 0 questions | ·Text type: the memoir extract, 2024: 0 questions | ·Text type: the memoir extract, 2025: 0 questions | ·Text type: the memoir extract, 2026: 0 questions | |
| ·Text type: the letter, 2021: 0 questions | ·Text type: the letter, 2022: 0 questions | ·Text type: the letter, 2023: 0 questions | ·Text type: the letter, 2024: 0 questions | ·Text type: the letter, 2025: 0 questions | ·Text type: the letter, 2026: 0 questions | |
| ·Text type: travel writing, 2021: 0 questions | ·Text type: travel writing, 2022: 0 questions | ·Text type: travel writing, 2023: 0 questions | ·Text type: travel writing, 2024: 0 questions | ·Text type: travel writing, 2025: 0 questions | ·Text type: travel writing, 2026: 0 questions | |
| ·Text type: the literary extract, 2021: 0 questions | ·Text type: the literary extract, 2022: 0 questions | ·Text type: the literary extract, 2023: 0 questions | ·Text type: the literary extract, 2024: 0 questions | ·Text type: the literary extract, 2025: 0 questions | ·Text type: the literary extract, 2026: 0 questions | |
| ·Text type: the poem, 2021: 0 questions | ·Text type: the poem, 2022: 0 questions | ·Text type: the poem, 2023: 0 questions | ·Text type: the poem, 2024: 0 questions | ·Text type: the poem, 2025: 0 questions | ·Text type: the poem, 2026: 0 questions |
- Less commonin fewer than one paper in fifteen
- No matches in this archiveon the syllabus, but has no question tagged to it in this archive. This does not mean it has never been examined
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Which English A HL exam sessions are covered for 2.5 Personal & literary forms?
10 exam sessions from 2021, the latest May 2021. Every Paper 1 in every timezone is read and classified in full, which gives 1 paper in this archive.
Which 2.5 Personal & literary forms topic comes up most?
Text type: the essay (2.5.4): in 3% of papers, last seen May 21 P1 TZ1. Usually "Analyse", worth about 20 marks in a paper that includes it.
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