{"id":10840,"date":"2018-05-19T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T02:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibpsych.themantic-education.com\/?p=10840"},"modified":"2018-05-19T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T02:47:39","slug":"what-should-we-include-in-a-mock-exam-year-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2018\/05\/19\/what-should-we-include-in-a-mock-exam-year-one\/","title":{"rendered":"What should we include in a mock exam? (Year One)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guidance in this post is going to be most helpful for teachers who are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>teaching a two year course<\/li>\n<li>using our textbook,\u00a0<em>IB Psychology: A Student&#8217;s Guide\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and are following a similar course structure to the one I&#8217;ve proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2017\/07\/28\/travis-ib-psychology-course-outline-new-syllabus\/\">here<\/a>. (i.e. Criminology, Social Influence and Quantitative Methods covered in Year One).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I include in my End-Of-Year Exam for Year 1 (Grade 11) students:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Contents of Exam (Adapted from of IB Psychology Paper One)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Time: <\/strong>2.5 hrs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part A: Short Answer Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Two questions. Answer <strong>both<\/strong>. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Questions will be based on the topics in the core approaches to understanding human behaviour (see attached document below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part B: Essay Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Three questions. Choose one.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>There will be one question from each of the core approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You can see that I have less content and more time for the exam to reflect the fact this is their first year in the course and they&#8217;re 12 months younger than they will be when they take the IB exams the following year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><em>There&#8217;s a lot of cognitive development that happens over the two years my students are in my psychology class, so I try to adjust my rubrics, tests and expectations to reflect this so they are fair assessments. I also think a majority of the emphasis should be on writing SARs in Year One, since these hit most of the skills that we&#8217;re looking for across assessments.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Overview Document<\/h2>\n<p>You can download the overview that I have given my students for their mock exams this year. In this document I&#8217;ve made it clear what topics may be asked in the exam and I&#8217;ve included an example of what the questions might look like.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The textbook has a list of practice questions at the end of each topic that you could use for your exam, or if there&#8217;s a topic that you&#8217;re not sure how to phrase the question or what it will probably look like in an IB exam, post to our Facebook Group and we can help (don&#8217;t post questions on this post, because your students might see it, too \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Download the overview <a title=\"IB Psychology End of Year Exam\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/05\/ib-psychology-end-of-year-exam.docx\">IB Psychology End of Year Exam<\/a>!*<\/h3>\n<p>*Just a reminder that this is for my Year One\/Grade 11 students.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Why aren&#8217;t I testing Paper Two?<\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessary after Year One and there&#8217;s so much content for students to revise as it is with Paper One, that I think it&#8217;s redundant.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I want students to focus on Paper One material since they will have to review this again next year as they prepare for the &#8220;real&#8221; IB exams. With Paper 2, we still haven&#8217;t covered PTSD (Chapter 4) or Love and Marriage (Chapter 5), which are really good options for Paper Two. 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