IB World Religions Predicted Topics 2027

No — they are our own analysis of past World Religions papers, not leaked or official IB material. They show which themes and sub-sections have been asked most often so you can sequence your revision; the exam can test any part of the guide your school has taught.

We tag every question part of every past paper to the topic of the guide it examines, then count how often each one has come up and weight it by the marks it carried. Because Paper 1 asks about all nine traditions every session and Paper 2 covers all six, the ranking is most useful within a tradition — it tells you whether a question on, say, Islam has historically been more likely to come from rituals than from sacred texts.

Yes, for content — the syllabus itself did not change in 2017, only the mark structure did. Paper 1 part (b) moved from 7 marks to 6 and now always uses “explain”, and Paper 2 moved from six markbands to five with each essay out of 15 instead of 20. A pre-2017 question is still a fair question on the same syllabus; just mark your answer against the current bands rather than the ones printed on the old markscheme.

Start with the themes that come up most often in the two traditions your school studies in depth, and make sure every theme has at least one specific example — a named text, ritual, festival, figure or contemporary case — attached to it. Then broaden out. Use the ranking to sequence revision, not to skip a theme: all five are examinable in every sitting.