IBO Level 3 Certificate in HL Language A: language and literature

Assessment

External 80% Paper 1: Guided textual analysis - Guided analysis of unseen non-literary passage/passages from different text types. Paper 2: Comparative essay - Comparative essay based on two literary works written in response to a choice of one out of four questions. HL essay - Written coursework component: 1,200–1,500 word essay on one literary work or a non-literary body of work studied. Internal 20% Individual oral - Prepared oral response on the way that one literary work and one non-literary body of work studied have approached a common global issue.