IB English: Individual Oral (IO)

by Ashmitha Anil

What is an Individual Oral (IO)?

Individual Oral is an oral response prepared and presented by a student on two chosen works learned during the academic year. The student has to connect both the chosen works with a common global issue. This is an oral presentation that will take 35 minutes to complete, with 20 minutes for preparation, 10 minutes for presentation, and 5 minutes for questions.

What is an Internal Assessment (IA)?

Internal assessments are assignments that students submit to teachers directly. Unlike external exams, which are assessed by external IB examiners, they are evaluated and graded by their IB teachers. The IB, recently revised the IO grading system to include external examiners. For English A: Literature and English A: Language and Literature, the IA criterion is individual oral.

How does it work?

English A: Literature

  • Students perform an oral activity presenting their analysis of two works studied in the academic year.
  • Students should select one work from the prescribed literature in translations (PLT) and the other one from the prescribed list of authors (PLA) published by the IB. The students have full independence in choosing which of the two works they will present. As a result, the students will have two texts.
  • A presentation is prepared and presented by a student on how, one work originally written in the studied language and one work studied in translation have addressed a common global context. (Subject Brief English A: Lit).
  • The student will have a total of 35 minutes to complete, with 20 minutes for preparation, 10 minutes for presentation and 5 mins for questions.
  • The weightage for English A: Literature HL is 20%.
  • The weightage for English A: Literature SL is 30%.

English A: Language and Literature

  • Students perform an oral activity presenting their analysis of two works studied in the academic year.
  • Students should select one literary work and one non-literary body of work they have studied during the academic year. They must come from the IB's authorised list of texts. As a result, the students will have two texts.
  • A presentation is prepared and presented by a student on how one literary work and one non-literary body of work studied have approached a common global context (Subject Brief English A: Lang & Lit).
  • The student will have a total of 35 minutes to complete, with 20 minutes of preparation, 10 minutes of presentation and 5 mins for questions.
  • The weightage for English A: Language and Literature HL is 20%.
  • The weightage for English A: Language and Literature SL is 30%.

The IB evaluates a student's reflection, understanding and identification from the two chosen works as well as their ability to connect all of these elements to a common global context. Students should work on their communication and presentation skills since this is an oral presentation.

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