{"id":14649,"date":"2023-03-17T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:39:19","slug":"6-best-study-tip-for-ib-psych-write-plans-not-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2023\/03\/17\/6-best-study-tip-for-ib-psych-write-plans-not-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"#6 Best Study Tip for IB Psych: Write Plans, Not Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A popular but silly strategy for IB Psych exams is to pre-write essay answers for every.single.question and then try to memorise them. Worse yet, downloading or buying existing essays and trying to memorise them. This is much, <i>much <\/i>harder than planning your own revision strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A much better strategy, imho, is to write plans for each topic. Don\u2019t worry about different command terms, just think SAQs = Explain and Essays = Discuss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For SAQ plans, you could follow my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2019\/07\/29\/7-simple-steps-to-better-exam-answers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 steps to the perfect SAQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as an outline. For Essay plans, you could use my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2018\/07\/12\/essay-writing-tips-three-rules-of-three\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three Rules of Three<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Or follow the advice given to you by your teacher. You could also try using the strategy my students used which resulted in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SZsTxu2N04U\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">their best ever essays<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The point is, you can cover more topics and revise more content by writing shorter, quicker plans, instead of writing entire essays. If you want to, after you\u2019ve written your plans you could put them in a large pile, draw one randomly, give yourself the same time as the exam and see if you could develop the plan into an excellent answer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feedback is important, too, so partner up with someone or ask your teacher in advance if they\u2019d be willing to check your plans with you. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tip: As a teacher I <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hate <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">getting emails from students asking me to check their work. 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Use these to write plans and prepare,\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>try to memorise a hundred essays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular but silly strategy for IB Psych exams is to pre-write essay answers for every.single.question and then try to memorise them. Worse yet, downloading or buying existing essays and trying to memorise them. This is much, much harder than planning your own revision strategy. A much better strategy, imho, is to write plans for each topic. 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