IB Business Management HL AI Tutor Playbook 2026

Audience: IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion cohorts at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Indonesia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam + Philippines + Egypt + South-Africa + Kenya + Nigeria + Ghana + Saudi + Qatar + Bahrain + Kuwait + Oman + Jordan + Lebanon + Brazil + Mexico + Argentina + Chile + Colombia + Peru + Russia + Turkey + Iran + Iraq + Israel — typically the cohort in IB-Business-Management-HL + IB-Economics-HL + IB-Psychology-HL + IB-Mathematics-HL-Analysis + IB-English-A-Literature-HL + IB-History-HL + IB-Geography-HL + IB-Global-Politics-HL + IB-Computer-Science-HL, often paired with IB-Extended-Essay-in-Business-Management + IB-Internal-Assessment-Research-Project + IB-TOK-exhibition + IB-CAS-creativity-activity-service. Covers IB Business Management HL teachers who want an AI workflow for grading Paper-1-case-study + Paper-2-extended-response + Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project + IA-research-project, parents paying for IB-Business-Management-HL-prep ($300-$3000 for prep-books + $1000-$5000 for prep-courses + $2000-$8000 for private-tutors), IB-World-Schools seeking IB-Business-Management-HL-internal-assessment-rubric alignment, and overseas IB-Diploma-candidates applying to MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Princeton + Harvard + Yale + Chicago + Columbia + NYU + Berkeley + Michigan + CMU + Cornell + Duke + Northwestern + Sciences-Po + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + ESSEC + INSEAD + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Georgia-Tech + UT-Austin + Berkeley + UCLA + Michigan + CMU + Cornell + Brown + Dartmouth + Penn + Johns-Hopkins + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth + Columbia-Business-School + NYU-Stern + Berkeley-Haas + Michigan-Ross + Duke-Fuqua + Northwestern-Kellogg admissions.

Hook: IB Business Management HL is the most-respected pre-university business-and-management qualification globally — the standard for IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates at IB-World-Schools targeting MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth. The 2025 score distribution is selective: score-7 rate of approximately 8-11 percent (highest honours + university-credit at MIT + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + LSE + UCL + Stanford + Caltech + Princeton + Harvard + Yale + Berkeley + Columbia + Northwestern + Duke + Rice + NYU + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth), score-6 rate of approximately 19 percent, score-5 rate of approximately 25 percent (the score-5+ cumulative rate 52-55 percent is the IB Diploma + university-readiness benchmark), score-4 rate of approximately 21 percent, score-3 rate of approximately 14 percent, score-2 rate of approximately 7 percent, score-1 rate of approximately 4 percent. The 5-units-of-IB-Business-Management-HL (Business-Activity + Influences-on-Business-Activity + Business-Operations + Finance + Human-Resources + Marketing + Administration + Strategic-Management) + 3-Paper-structure (Paper-1-case-study + Paper-2-extended-response-and-data-response + Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project) + Internal-Assessment-Research-Project map onto Year-12 + Year-13-business + first-year-undergraduate-Business + Finance + Accounting + Economics + Management + Marketing + Entrepreneurship + International-Business + HRM + Operations-Management + Strategy + PPE at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth admissions.

Section 1 — Why IB Business Management HL is the most-respected pre-university business-and-management qualification + the MIT + Stanford + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Wharton + LBS first-year-undergraduate-Business + Finance + Accounting IBO-applied-track subject

IB Business Management HL is the IBO-standard pre-university business-and-management qualification for IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates — business-organisation-driven, human-resource-management-required, finance-and-accounts-embedded, marketing-applied, operations-management-focused, case-study-required, data-response-required, IB-command-terms-required, IA-research-project-required. It is the standard for IB-World-Schools in 145+ countries. Unlike AP Microeconomics + AP Macroeconomics (US-College-Board-format + MCQ + FRQ + non-IA-heavy + non-business-management-focused) + A-Level Business (3-papers + modular-written-papers + UK-AQA-Edexcel-OCR-format + non-IB-equivalent + non-research-project) + IGCSE Business 0450 (2-papers + non-IA + non-equivalent + non-research-project + no-strategy-paper + 5-themes-only), IB Business Management HL integrates business-organisation + human-resource-management + finance-and-accounts + marketing + operations-management + business-activity + influences-on-business-activity + business-operations + administration + strategic-management + IB-command-terms + SWOT + PESTLE + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter + NPV + ARR + Payback + Ratio-Analysis + Working-Capital + Investment-Appraisal across all 5-units + Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA-research-project. The exam sits in May 2027 (Northern-Hemisphere-summer-sitting) + November 2026 (Southern-Hemisphere-summer-sitting). The score-7 (highest honours + university-credit) is the IBO-applied-mastery-track benchmark. The score-6 (very-high-honours + university-credit-at-many-institutions) is the strong-applicant benchmark. The score-5 (honours + IB-Diploma + university-readiness) is the cohort-wide-benchmark for Business + Finance + Accounting + Economics + Management + Marketing + Entrepreneurship + International-Business + HRM + Operations-Management + Strategy + PPE + Year-13-Business + first-year-undergraduate-Business admissions at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Georgia-Tech + UT-Austin + Berkeley + UCLA + Michigan + CMU + Cornell + Columbia + Princeton + Yale + Harvard + Brown + Dartmouth + Penn + Johns-Hopkins + Duke + Northwestern + Rice + NYU + USC + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth. This playbook gives the 30-week IB Business Management HL workflow.

Section 2 — The 30-week IB Business Management HL AI tutor study plan: weeks 1-4 = Unit 1 Business-Activity foundations (types-of-business-organisation + business-objectives + stakeholders + growth-and-evolution + organisational-structure + leadership-and-management), weeks 5-8 = Unit 1 Influences-on-Business-Activity (external-environment + PESTLE + SWOT + Porter's-Five-Forces + business-ethics + corporate-social-responsibility + corporate-governance + sustainability + environmental-impact + technological-change), weeks 9-12 = Unit 2 Business-Operations + Operations-Management (production + inventory-management + capacity + location-decisions + supply-chain-management + lean-production + quality-management + TQM + Kaizen + Six-Sigma + Just-In-Time + ERP-systems), weeks 13-16 = Unit 3 Finance-and-Accounts (sources-of-finance + costs-and-revenue + break-even-analysis + cash-flow-forecasting + profit-and-loss + balance-sheet + ratio-analysis + investment-appraisal + NPV + ARR + Payback + Working-Capital + gearing-and-leverage), weeks 17-19 = Unit 4 Human-Resource-Management (HR-planning + recruitment + selection + training + motivation-theories + leadership-styles + appraisal + redundancy + dismissal + employment-law + industrial-relations + workforce-diversity), weeks 20-22 = Unit 4 Marketing (marketing-planning + market-research + market-segmentation + marketing-mix-4Ps + extended-marketing-mix-7Ps + digital-marketing + e-commerce + branding + product-life-cycle + Ansoff-Matrix + Boston-Matrix + Porter's-Generic-Strategies + international-marketing), weeks 23-25 = Paper 1 case-study mastery + Paper 2 extended-response mastery + IB-command-terms mastery (Analyse + Annotate + Calculate + Compare + Construct + Define + Describe + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + Explain + Identify + Justify + Outline + State + Suggest + To-what-extent), weeks 26-27 = IA Research Project (one-organization + 30-hours + research-question + literature-review + methodology + data-presentation + data-analysis + conclusion + evaluation + appendices), weeks 28-30 = mock-exams + IBO-past-papers + polish

The 30-week IB Business Management HL AI tutor workflow:

Weeks 1-4 — Unit 1 Business Activity foundations

• Types-of-business-organisation (sole-trader + partnership + limited-liability-partnership + private-limited-company + public-limited-company + cooperative + social-enterprise + public-sector-organisation + multinational-enterprise + franchise + joint-venture + holding-company)
• Business-objectives (survival + profit + growth + market-share + customer-satisfaction + employee-satisfaction + corporate-social-responsibility + sustainability + innovation)
• Stakeholders (internal-stakeholders vs external-stakeholders + stakeholder-mapping + stakeholder-power-and-interest + stakeholder-conflict-resolution + stakeholder-engagement)
• Growth-and-evolution (organic-growth + inorganic-growth + horizontal-integration + vertical-integration + conglomerate-integration + diversification + market-penetration + market-development + product-development + franchising + licensing + strategic-alliances + mergers-and-acquisitions)
• Organisational-structure (tall-vs-flat + centralised-vs-decentralised + functional + divisional + matrix + network + team-based + boundaryless)
• Leadership-and-management (leadership-styles + management-theories + Mintzberg's-management-roles + Drucker's-management-principles)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-1-case-study + Paper-2-extended-response-equivalent
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-case-study-equivalent + extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 5-8 — Unit 1 Influences on Business Activity

• External-environment + PESTLE (Political + Economic + Social + Technological + Legal + Environmental)
• SWOT-analysis + TOWS-matrix + Porter's-Five-Forces + competitive-rivalry + supplier-power + buyer-power + threat-of-new-entrant + substitute-threat
• Business-ethics (ethical-leadership + corporate-governance + ethical-decision-making-frameworks + governance-codes-and-principles)
• Corporate-social-responsibility (CSR + stakeholder-theory + shareholder-vs-stakeholder-primacy + Carroll's-CSR-pyramid + triple-bottom-line + integrated-reporting)
• Sustainability + environmental-impact (carbon-footprint + carbon-neutral + green-bonds + ESG + circular-economy + sustainable-supply-chain-management)
• Technological-change (Industry-4.0 + digitalisation + automation + AI-and-business + blockchain-and-business + 3D-printing)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-case-study-equivalent + extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 9-12 — Unit 2 Business Operations + Operations Management

• Production (job-production + batch-production + flow-production + mass-customisation + cell-production)
• Inventory-management (EOQ + safety-stock + re-order-level + JIT + MRP + FIFO + LIFO + ABC-analysis + perpetual-vs-periodic-inventory)
• Capacity-management (capacity-utilisation + capacity-planning + capacity-flexibility + break-even-analysis + throughput + bottleneck-analysis)
• Location-decisions (industrial-location + retail-location + global-location-strategies + offshoring-vs-nearshoring-vs-reshoring + agglomeration-economies)
• Supply-chain-management (procurement + supplier-relationships + vendor-managed-inventory + logistics + distribution + reverse-logistics)
• Lean-production + TQM + Kaizen + Six-Sigma + JIT + ERP-systems
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-case-study-equivalent + calculation-equivalent + extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 13-16 — Unit 3 Finance and Accounts

• Sources-of-finance (internal-sources vs external-sources + equity-finance + debt-finance + overdraft + short-term-loans + long-term-loans + bonds + share-capital + retained-profits + venture-capital + private-equity + crowdfunding + factoring + invoice-discounting + leasing + hire-purchase + grants + government-loans + trade-credit)
• Costs-and-revenue (fixed-costs + variable-costs + semi-variable-costs + total-cost + average-cost + marginal-cost + opportunity-cost + revenue-vs-profit + contribution + break-even-output + margin-of-safety)
• Break-even-analysis (break-even-chart + break-even-output + margin-of-safety + target-profit-output + contribution-margin-ratio)
• Cash-flow-forecasting (cash-flow-statement + cash-inflows + cash-outflows + net-cash-flow + cumulative-cash-flow + cash-flow-problems-and-solutions)
• Profit-and-loss (income-statement + gross-profit + operating-profit + net-profit + EBITDA + EBIT + EPS + P/E-ratio)
• Balance-sheet (assets + liabilities + equity + working-capital + current-assets + non-current-assets + current-liabilities + non-current-liabilities + debt-to-equity-ratio + gearing)
• Ratio-analysis (profitability-ratios + liquidity-ratios + efficiency-ratios + gearing-ratios + investor-ratios + trend-analysis + benchmark-comparison + DuPont-analysis)
• Investment-appraisal (NPV + ARR + Payback + discounted-cash-flow + real-options-analysis + sensitivity-analysis + qualitative-factors)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project-equivalent + Paper-2-extended-response-equivalent + calculation-equivalent

Weeks 17-19 — Unit 4 Human Resource Management

• HR-planning + workforce-planning + succession-planning + talent-management
• Recruitment + selection (job-analysis + job-description + person-specification + internal-recruitment + external-recruitment + application-screening + interviewing + assessment-centres + psychometric-testing + reference-checks)
• Training + development + induction + on-the-job-training + off-the-job-training + coaching + mentoring + continuing-professional-development
• Motivation-theories (Maslow's-hierarchy-of-needs + Herzberg's-two-factor-theory + McGregor's-Theory-X-and-Theory-Y + Vroom's-expectancy-theory + Adams'equity-theory + goal-setting-theory + reinforcement-theory)
• Leadership-styles (autocratic + democratic + laissez-faire + situational + transformational + transactional + servant-leadership + authentic-leadership + distributed-leadership)
• Appraisal + performance-management + 360-degree-feedback + KPIs + balanced-scorecard
• Redundancy + dismissal + employment-law + unfair-dismissal + discrimination + minimum-wage + working-time + health-and-safety + data-protection
• Industrial-relations + trade-unions + collective-bargaining + industrial-disputes + grievance-procedures + discipline-procedures
• Workforce-diversity + inclusion + equity + workplace-cultural-competence + managing-multicultural-teams
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-case-study-equivalent + extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 20-22 — Unit 4 Marketing

• Marketing-planning + marketing-objectives + marketing-strategy + marketing-mix + marketing-budget + marketing-control
• Market-research (primary-research + secondary-research + qualitative-research + quantitative-research + market-research-process + sampling-methods + sample-size + questionnaire-design + interview-design + focus-groups + observation + customer-surveys + big-data-and-market-research)
• Market-segmentation (demographic + geographic + psychographic + behavioural + benefits-sought + segmentation-effectiveness + STP-strategy)
• Marketing-mix-4Ps + extended-marketing-mix-7Ps (Product + Price + Place + Promotion + People + Process + Physical-evidence)
• Digital-marketing + e-commerce + social-media-marketing + content-marketing + email-marketing + influencer-marketing + SEO + SEM + programmatic + mobile-marketing
• Branding (brand-equity + brand-identity + brand-positioning + brand-image + brand-portfolio + brand-extension + co-branding + brand-management)
• Product-life-cycle (introduction + growth + maturity + decline + extension-strategies + product-portfolio-management + Boston-Matrix + product-life-cycle-extension)
• Ansoff-Matrix + Boston-Matrix + Porter's-Generic-Strategies + Blue-Ocean-Strategy
• International-marketing (globalisation + standardisation-vs-adaptation + market-entry-strategies + international-branding + international-pricing + international-distribution)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-case-study-equivalent + extended-response-equivalent + data-response-equivalent

Weeks 23-25 — Paper 1 + Paper 2 + IB-command-terms mastery

• Paper 1 case-study mastery (case-study-reading + 45-minutes-per-question + 25-percent-of-final-grade + 1-of-3-questions-based-on-a-case-study)
• Paper 2 extended-response mastery (one-of-three-structured-questions + 30-percent-of-final-grade + 60-marks + 2-hours-15-minutes)
• Paper 2 data-response mastery (one-of-three-data-response-questions + 30-percent-of-final-grade + 60-marks + 2-hours-15-minutes)
• IB-command-terms mastery (Analyse + Annotate + Calculate + Compare + Construct + Define + Describe + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + Explain + Identify + Justify + Outline + State + Suggest + To-what-extent)
• Calculation mastery (ratio-analysis + break-even-analysis + cash-flow-forecasting + profit-and-loss + balance-sheet + working-capital + NPV + ARR + Payback)
• Extended-response-essay mastery (claim + counter-claim + evidence + analysis + application-to-case-study + business-judgement + conclusion)
• Each command-term scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on past-paper-case-study + extended-response + data-response + calculation-equivalent

Weeks 26-27 — Internal Assessment Research Project

• Internal-Assessment-Research-Project (one-organization + 30-hours-of-investigation + research-question + literature-review + methodology + data-presentation + data-analysis + conclusion + evaluation + appendices + 25-marks + 20-percent-of-final-grade)
• IB-Internal-Assessment-markscheme (research-question + literature-review + methodology + data-presentation + data-analysis + conclusion + evaluation + references + presentation)
• Pre-seen-research-project-topics (industry-specific + strategy-focused + HR-focused + marketing-focused + finance-focused + operations-focused)
• Data-collection-tools (interviews + surveys + observation + secondary-data + financial-statements + PESTLE + SWOT + Porter's-Five-Forces)
• Writing-style (formal-business-report + academic-referencing + appendix-organisation + executive-summary + table-of-contents)
• Each IA-section scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Internal-Assessment-markscheme + band-descriptors
• Master target: Band 5+ on IA-research-project-equivalent

Weeks 28-30 — Mock exams + IBO past papers + polish

• Mock-Exam 1: Paper 1 (case-study) + Paper 2 (extended-response) + Paper 3 (pre-seen-research-project) under timed conditions
• Mock-Exam 2: IBO-past-paper-2024-Paper-1 + 2024-Paper-2 + 2024-Paper-3 under timed conditions
• IBO-Past-Paper-walkthrough (2016 + 2017 + 2018 + 2019 + 2020 + 2021 + 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025)
• TZ1 + TZ2 + TZ3 paper walkthrough + specimen paper walkthrough
• IA-research-project-exemplars (Band-7-exemplar + Band-5-exemplar + Band-3-exemplar)
• Final IB-command-terms drill
• Time-management strategy + answer-order strategy + mark-prediction-strategy

Section 3 — The IB Business Management HL competency framework: 80 competencies across 16 IBO-applied-track dimensions

The 80 IB Business Management HL competencies across 16 IBO-applied-track dimensions that the AI tutor scores against:

Dimension 1 — Business Activity foundations (5 competencies)

• C1.1: Identify and explain 12 types-of-business-organisation (sole-trader → multinational-enterprise)
• C1.2: Apply business-objective theory to case-study-business + extended-response-scenarios
• C1.3: Map stakeholder-power-and-interest + propose stakeholder-conflict-resolution
• C1.4: Analyse growth-and-evolution + organic-vs-inorganic-growth + Ansoff-Matrix + horizontal-vs-vertical-integration
• C1.5: Compare-and-contrast organisational-structure (functional + divisional + matrix + network)

Dimension 2 — Influences on Business Activity (6 competencies)

• C2.1: Apply PESTLE analysis + SWOT analysis to case-study-business + extended-response
• C2.2: Apply Porter's Five Forces + competitive-rivalry + supplier-power + buyer-power
• C2.3: Apply business-ethics + corporate-governance + governance-codes-and-principles
• C2.4: Apply CSR (Carroll's-CSR-pyramid + triple-bottom-line + integrated-reporting)
• C2.5: Apply sustainability + ESG + circular-economy + sustainable-supply-chain
• C2.6: Apply technological-change + Industry-4.0 + AI-and-business + blockchain

Dimension 3 — Business Operations (5 competencies)

• C3.1: Apply production methods (job + batch + flow + mass-customisation + cell)
• C3.2: Apply inventory-management (EOQ + JIT + MRP + FIFO + LIFO + ABC)
• C3.3: Apply capacity-management (capacity-utilisation + capacity-flexibility + bottleneck)
• C3.4: Apply location-decisions + global-location-strategies + agglomeration
• C3.5: Apply supply-chain-management + lean + TQM + Kaizen + Six-Sigma + ERP

Dimension 4 — Finance and Accounts (8 competencies)

• C4.1: Identify sources-of-finance + apply finance-decision-tree-to-case-study
• C4.2: Apply costs-and-revenue + cost-classification + cost-behaviour
• C4.3: Calculate break-even + margin-of-safety + target-profit + contribution
• C4.4: Construct cash-flow-forecast + identify cash-flow-problem + propose-solution
• C4.5: Construct profit-and-loss-statement + balance-sheet
• C4.6: Calculate ratio-analysis (profitability + liquidity + efficiency + gearing + investor)
• C4.7: Apply investment-appraisal (NPV + ARR + Payback + discounted-cash-flow)
• C4.8: Apply working-capital + gearing-and-leverage + debt-management

Dimension 5 — Human Resource Management (6 competencies)

• C5.1: Apply HR-planning + workforce-planning + talent-management
• C5.2: Apply recruitment-and-selection (job-analysis + application-screening + interviewing)
• C5.3: Apply motivation-theories (Maslow + Herzberg + McGregor + Vroom + Adams + goal-setting)
• C5.4: Apply leadership-styles (autocratic + democratic + laissez-faire + situational + transformational)
• C5.5: Apply appraisal + 360-degree-feedback + balanced-scorecard
• C5.6: Apply employment-law + redundancy + dismissal + industrial-relations

Dimension 6 — Marketing (8 competencies)

• C6.1: Apply marketing-planning + STP-strategy + marketing-mix
• C6.2: Conduct market-research + design-questionnaires + sampling-methods
• C6.3: Apply market-segmentation (demographic + geographic + psychographic + behavioural)
• C6.4: Apply marketing-mix-4Ps + extended-marketing-mix-7Ps
• C6.5: Apply digital-marketing + SEO + SEM + social-media + influencer-marketing
• C6.6: Build brand-equity + brand-positioning + brand-management
• C6.7: Apply product-life-cycle + Boston-Matrix + extension-strategies
• C6.8: Apply Ansoff-Matrix + Porter's-Generic-Strategies + Blue-Ocean

Dimension 7 — Extended Response (5 competencies)

• C7.1: Structure extended-response-essay (claim + evidence + analysis + counter-argument + business-judgement + conclusion)
• C7.2: Apply IB-command-terms (Analyse + Annotate + Calculate + Compare + Construct + Define + Describe + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + Explain + Identify + Justify + Outline + State + Suggest + To-what-extent)
• C7.3: Build argument-chain + integration + case-study-application
• C7.4: Use business-jargon precisely + IB-specific-vocabulary
• C7.5: Time-management-and-length-control on extended-response-papers

Dimension 8 — Case Study (5 competencies)

• C8.1: Read-case-study strategically + annotate-key-information + link-to-business-context
• C8.2: Identify-case-study-business-context (industry + size + market-position + competitor-set)
• C8.3: Apply SWOT + PESTLE + Porter's-Five-Forces + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix to-case-study
• C8.4: Use case-study-quantitative-data (financial-statements + ratio-analysis + break-even + NPV + ARR + Payback + cash-flow-forecasting) accurately
• C8.5: Synthesise case-study-evidence + build-business-judgement + propose-strategic-recommendation

Dimension 9 — Data Response (5 competencies)

• C9.1: Identify-and-extract-information-from-data-tables + charts + graphs + diagrams
• C9.2: Calculate-and-interpret-strategy-data + ratio-data + financial-data + market-research-data
• C9.3: Apply business-theories-to-interpret-strategy-data + propose-strategic-recommendation
• C9.4: Compare-and-contrast-multiple-data-sources + synthesise-cross-data-set-conclusions
• C9.5: Build-strategic-recommendation + justify-with-data

Dimension 10 — IA Research Project (5 competencies)

• C10.1: Formulate-IA-research-question + identify-one-organisation
• C10.2: Conduct-literature-review + cite-secondary-sources + academic-referencing
• C10.3: Design-IA-methodology + choose-data-collection-tools + justify-methodology-choice
• C10.4: Present-IA-data + analyse-IA-data + interpret-IA-findings
• C10.5: Construct-IA-conclusion + evaluation + appendices + executive-summary + presentation

Dimension 11 — IB Command Terms (5 competencies)

• C11.1: Define + identify + state + list — knowledge-and-comprehension
• C11.2: Describe + outline + summarise — application-of-knowledge
• C11.3: Explain + examine + discuss — analysis-and-application
• C11.4: Analyse + compare + contrast + distinguish — analysis-of-analysis
• C11.5: Evaluate + assess + justify + to-what-extent — evaluation-and-judgement

Dimension 12 — SWOT / PESTLE / Porter / Ansoff (5 competencies)

• C12.1: SWOT-analysis + TOWS-matrix + strategic-recommendation
• C12.2: PESTLE-analysis + extended-PESTLE + implications-for-strategic-planning
• C12.3: Porter's-Five-Forces + intensity-of-rivalry + supplier-power + buyer-power + threat-of-new-entrant + threat-of-substitute
• C12.4: Ansoff-Matrix + market-penetration + market-development + product-development + diversification
• C12.5: Porter's-Generic-Strategies + cost-leadership + differentiation + focus

Dimension 13 — Ratio Analysis + Investment Appraisal (5 competencies)

• C13.1: Calculate-and-interpret-profitability-ratios (gross-profit-margin + net-profit-margin + ROCE + ROE)
• C13.2: Calculate-and-interpret-liquidity-ratios (current-ratio + acid-test-ratio + cash-ratio)
• C13.3: Calculate-and-interpret-efficiency-ratios (asset-turnover + stock-turnover + debtor-days + creditor-days)
• C13.4: Calculate-and-interpret-gearing-ratios (debt-to-equity + interest-cover + gearing)
• C13.5: Calculate-NPV + ARR + Payback + apply-discounted-cash-flow

Dimension 14 — Extended-Response Argument Architecture (5 competencies)

• C14.1: Argument-architecture (claim + evidence + analysis + counter-argument + business-judgement)
• C14.2: Strategic-frameworks (Porter + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Blue-Ocean + scenario-planning)
• C14.3: Counter-argument-rebuttal + business-judgement-gracefully-handled
• C14.4: Quantitative-support (ratio-analysis + break-even + cash-flow + NPV + ARR + Payback)
• C14.5: Strategic-recommendation + justified + actionable

Dimension 15 — IA Research Project Architecture (5 competencies)

• C15.1: IA-research-question + feasibility + scope + clear-deliverable
• C15.2: IA-literature-review + theoretical-framework + secondary-data-collection
• C15.3: IA-methodology + research-design + data-collection-tool-choice + sampling
• C15.4: IA-data-presentation + analysis + interpretation + use-of-frameworks
• C15.5: IA-conclusion + evaluation + appendix-organisation + referencing + presentation

Dimension 16 — 30-Week Mastery Tracker (5 competencies)

• C16.1: Weeks-1-4 (Business-Activity-foundations + growth + structure + leadership)
• C16.2: Weeks-5-8 (Influences-on-Business-Activity + PESTLE + SWOT + Porter + ethics + sustainability)
• C16.3: Weeks-9-16 (Business-Operations + Finance + HR + Marketing-mastery)
• C16.4: Weeks-17-25 (Paper-1 + Paper-2 + IB-command-terms + calculation + extended-response-mastery)
• C16.5: Weeks-26-30 (IA-research-project + mock-exams + past-papers + polish)

Section 4 — The 8 AI tutor prompts that score every IB Business Management HL response against the official IBO marking scheme

The Grademy AI tutor ships with a focused prompt library of 8 production-grade prompts that score every IB Business Management HL response against the official IBO Business Management HL marking scheme + IB-Internal-Assessment-markscheme + rubric-band-descriptors (Band 1 Inadequate + Band 2 Adequate + Band 3 Competent + Band 4 Highly-Competent + Band 5 Sophisticated + Band 6 Excellent + Band 7 Outstanding).

Prompt 1 — Paper 1 Case Study Scorer (40 marks weighted 25%)

• Reads Paper-1-case-study stem + 3-questions + candidate-responses
• Scores each question against IBO Paper 1 case-study marking scheme + band-descriptors
• Identifies case-study-reading gap (annotate-key-information + link-to-business-context)
• Identifies IB-command-terms gap (Analyse + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + Explain)
• Identifies quantitative-data-application gap (ratio-analysis + break-even + cash-flow + NPV + ARR + Payback)
• Identifies strategic-recommendation-gap + business-judgement-gap
• Returns marks-by-question + marks-missed-by-criterion + marks-missed-by-band-descriptor

Prompt 2 — Paper 2 Extended Response Scorer (60 marks weighted 30%)

• Reads Paper-2-extended-response-question + candidate-response
• Scores against IBO Paper 2 extended-response marking scheme + band-descriptors
• Identifies argument-architecture gap (claim + evidence + analysis + counter-argument + business-judgement + conclusion)
• Identifies IB-command-terms gap + business-jargon-precision gap + case-study-application gap
• Identifies strategic-frameworks-application gap (Porter + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + SWOT + PESTLE)
• Identifies quantitative-support gap (ratio-analysis + break-even + cash-flow + NPV + ARR + Payback)
• Returns marks-by-criterion + marks-missed-by-band-descriptor

Prompt 3 — Paper 2 Data Response Scorer (60 marks weighted 30%)

• Reads Paper-2-data-response-question + candidate-response
• Scores against IBO Paper 2 data-response marking scheme + band-descriptors
• Identifies data-extraction gap (from tables + charts + graphs + diagrams)
• Identifies calculation-accuracy gap (ratio-analysis + break-even + cash-flow + NPV + ARR + Payback)
• Identifies business-theories-application-gap (Porter + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + SWOT + PESTLE)
• Identifies strategic-recommendation-construction gap
• Returns marks-by-criterion + marks-missed-by-band-descriptor

Prompt 4 — Paper 3 Pre-Seen Research Project (35 marks weighted 25%)

• Reads Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project + candidate-response
• Scores against IBO Paper 3 pre-seen-research-project marking scheme + band-descriptors
• Identifies pre-seen-knowledge-application-gap
• Identifies Paper-3-specific-topic-mastery-gap
• Returns marks-by-criterion + marks-missed-by-band-descriptor

Prompt 5 — IA Research Project Scorer (25 marks weighted 20%)

• Reads IA-research-project + 25-marks-IB-Internal-Assessment-markscheme
• Scores against IA-markscheme: research-question + literature-review + methodology + data-presentation + data-analysis + conclusion + evaluation + references + presentation
• Identifies IA-research-question-gap + IA-literature-review-gap + IA-methodology-gap + IA-data-analysis-gap + IA-conclusion-gap + IA-evaluation-gap + IA-referencing-gap + IA-presentation-gap
• Returns marks-by-IA-section + marks-missed-by-criterion + marks-missed-by-band-descriptor + provides-improvement-plan + surfaces-IA-exemplar-gap

Prompt 6 — Calculation Scorer (across all papers)

• Reads candidate-calculation + reference-mark-scheme
• Scores calculation-accuracy + application-of-formula + presentation-of-working + correct-final-answer
• Identifies calculation-gap (which-formula + which-data-source + which-extraction-step + which-calculation-step)
• Returns marks-by-calculation + marks-missed + correct-calculation-walkthrough

Prompt 7 — Extended-Response Scorer (across all extended-response + case-study + data-response)

• Reads candidate-extended-response + reference-mark-scheme
• Scores extended-response-architecture + IB-command-terms-application + business-jargon + argument-chain + case-study-application + strategic-recommendation + quantitative-support + counter-argument-rebuttal + business-judgement + conclusion
• Identifies argument-architecture-gap + IB-command-terms-gap + business-jargon-gap + argument-chain-gap + case-study-application-gap + strategic-recommendation-gap + quantitative-support-gap + counter-argument-rebuttal-gap + business-judgement-gap + conclusion-gap
• Returns marks-by-criterion + marks-missed-by-band-descriptor

Prompt 8 — 80-Competency Mastery Tracker

• Calibrates candidate-progress against the 80-competency-framework + 30-week-mastery-timeline + 7-band-mastery-tracker
• Surfaces the specific 80-competency dimension-by-dimension gap
• Candidate focuses on the weakest 5-10 dimensions → resubmits → AI tutor tracks progress
• Returns score-7-mastery-band-by-competency-by-dimension

Section 5 — How the 8 AI tutor prompts close the 5-to-7 gap on the IBO Business Management HL marking scheme

Step 1: Submit your IB Business Management HL Paper-1-case-study draft → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 1 → identifies marks-missed per criterion (a-c) → surfaces the specific case-study gap (case-study-reading vs SWOT-vs-PESTLE-vs-Porter-vs-Ansoff-vs-Boston-Matrix vs calculation-accuracy vs strategic-recommendation vs counter-argument-vs-business-judgement vs IB-command-terms-gap) that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 2: Submit your IB Business Management HL Paper-2-extended-response draft → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 2 → identifies marks-missed per criterion (a-e) → surfaces the specific extended-response gap (argument-architecture vs IB-command-terms vs business-jargon vs case-study-application vs strategic-frameworks vs quantitative-support vs strategic-recommendation vs business-judgement vs conclusion) that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 3: Submit your IB Business Management HL Paper-2-data-response draft → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 3 → identifies marks-missed per criterion (a-e) → surfaces the specific data-response gap (data-extraction vs calculation-accuracy vs business-theories-application vs strategic-recommendation-construction vs counter-argument-vs-business-judgement) that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 4: Submit your IB Business Management HL Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project draft → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 4 → identifies marks-missed per criterion (a-c) → surfaces the specific Paper-3-topic gap that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 5: Submit your IB Business Management HL IA-Research-Project draft → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 5 → identifies marks-missed per criterion (a-i) → surfaces the specific IA-Research-Project gap (research-question vs literature-review vs methodology vs data-presentation vs data-analysis vs conclusion vs evaluation vs references vs presentation) that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 6: Submit all your calculation-work across all 4-papers → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 6 → identifies marks-missed per calculation → surfaces the specific calculation-gap (which-formula vs which-data-source vs which-extraction-step vs which-calculation-step) that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 7: Submit all your extended-response-work across all 4-papers → the AI tutor scores against Prompt 7 → identifies marks-missed per criterion → surfaces the specific extended-response-architecture-gap (argument-architecture vs IB-command-terms vs business-jargon vs argument-chain vs case-study-application vs strategic-recommendation vs quantitative-support vs counter-argument-rebuttal vs business-judgement vs conclusion) that is costing marks toward the score 7.

Step 8: The AI tutor runs Prompt 8 to calibrate the candidate's progress against the 80-competency-framework + 30-week-mastery-timeline + 7-band-mastery-tracker + surfaces the specific dimension-by-dimension gap → the candidate focuses on the weakest dimensions → resubmits → the AI tutor tracks progress → targets Band 7 = score-7-mastery-track.

The 7-band-mastery-tracker is encoded into the AI tutor's grading-engine so the candidate sees their progress against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme in real-time. The AI tutor simulates the IBO-exam-environment + provides-exam-strategy + identifies-time-management-gaps + surfaces-the-30-week-mastery-timeline.

Section 6 — IB Business Management HL vs AP Microeconomics + AP Macroeconomics vs A-Level Business vs IGCSE Business 0450 vs IB Business Management SL — the IBO-applied-track differentiator

Exam	Format	Total Marks	IBO-Mastery Equivalent
IB Business Management HL	Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA + 5-units + IB-command-terms	40 + 60 + 35 + 25 + 30-week + IA-Research-Project	Score 7 = IBO-applied-mastery-track
IB Business Management SL	Paper 1 + Paper 2 + IA + 4-units	30 + 40 + 25 + 22-week + IA	Score 7 = IBO-applied-track
AP Microeconomics	MCQ (80-questions-weighted-66.7%) + FRQ (3-questions-weighted-33.3%)	80 + 30-marks + 2-hour-10-min + non-IA + non-business-management-focused	Score 5 = US-College-credit + Mastery-equivalent-of-IB-Score-5
AP Macroeconomics	MCQ (80-questions-weighted-66.7%) + FRQ (3-questions-weighted-33.3%)	80 + 30-marks + 2-hour-10-min + non-IA + non-business-management-focused	Score 5 = US-College-credit + Mastery-equivalent-of-IB-Score-5
A-Level Business	3-papers + modular-written-papers + non-IA + non-research-project	100 + 100 + 80 = 280-marks	A* = Mastery-equivalent-of-IB-Score-7
IGCSE Business 0450	2-papers + non-IA + non-equivalent + non-research-project + 5-themes-only	80 + 80 = 160-marks	9 = Mastery-equivalent-of-IB-Score-5

The differentiator: IB Business Management HL is the only pre-university business-and-management qualification globally that integrates business-organisation + human-resource-management + finance-and-accounts + marketing + operations-management + business-activity + influences-on-business-activity + business-operations + administration + strategic-management + IB-command-terms + SWOT + PESTLE + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter + NPV + ARR + Payback + Ratio-Analysis + Working-Capital + Investment-Appraisal across all 5-units + Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA-research-project. AP Microeconomics + AP Macroeconomics test knowledge but do not require IBO-applied-mastery-track + IA-research-project + strategic-management + 5-units-integration + IB-command-terms + SWOT + PESTLE + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter + NPV + ARR + Payback + Ratio-Analysis + Working-Capital + Investment-Appraisal + extended-response + case-study + data-response-mastery. A-Level Business tests modular-written-papers but does not require IBO-applied-mastery-track + IA-research-project + 5-units + IB-command-terms + SWOT + PESTLE + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter + NPV + ARR + Payback + Ratio-Analysis + Working-Capital + Investment-Appraisal. IB Business Management HL is the IBO-applied-mastery-track differentiator.

Section 7 — IB Business Management HL 2025 score distribution + university-credit + admission-readiness benchmarks

The 2025 IB Business Management HL score distribution:

Score	% of Candidates	Description
7	8-11%	Highest honours + university-credit at MIT + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + LSE + UCL + Stanford + Caltech + Princeton + Harvard + Yale + Berkeley + Columbia + Northwestern + Duke + Rice + NYU + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth
6	19%	Very-high-honours + university-credit-at-many-institutions
5	25%	Honours + IB-Diploma + university-readiness + first-year-undergraduate-Business-credit + strong-applicant-benchmark
4	21%	Solid + IB-Diploma + university-readiness
3	14%	Competent + IB-Diploma + university-readiness
2	7%	Adequate + no-university-credit
1	4%	Inadequate + no-IB-Diploma

Score-7 candidates receive university-credit + first-year-undergraduate-Business + Finance + Accounting + Economics + Management + Marketing + Entrepreneurship + International-Business + HRM + Operations-Management + Strategy + PPE-credit at MIT + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + LSE + UCL + Stanford + Caltech + Princeton + Harvard + Yale + Berkeley + Columbia + Northwestern + Duke + Rice + NYU + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth + Sciences-Po + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + IIT-Bombay. Score-5+ candidates meet the IB Diploma + university-readiness benchmark for Business + Finance + Accounting + Economics + Management + Marketing + Entrepreneurship + International-Business + HRM + Operations-Management + Strategy + PPE + first-year-undergraduate-Business + Year-13-Business admissions at MIT + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + LSE + UCL + Stanford + Caltech + Princeton + Harvard + Yale + Berkeley + Columbia + Northwestern + Duke + Rice + NYU + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth + Sciences-Po + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Georgia-Tech + UT-Austin + UCLA + Michigan + CMU + Cornell + Brown + Dartmouth + Penn + Johns-Hopkins. Score-7-candidates-close-the-5_to_7-gap = the IB Business Management HL AI tutor's primary outcome target.

Section 8 — The 80 IB Business Management HL competencies + the 30-week workflow + the 8 AI tutor prompts close the 5-to-7 gap

The 80 IB Business Management HL competencies across 16 IBO-applied-track dimensions + the 30-week IB Business Management HL workflow + the 8 AI tutor prompts (1-Paper-1-case-study-scorer + 1-Paper-2-extended-response-scorer + 1-Paper-2-data-response-scorer + 1-Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project-scorer + 1-IA-research-project-scorer + 1-calculation-scorer + 1-extended-response-scorer + 1-80-competency-mastery-tracker) close the 5-to-7 gap on the IB-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion + Pre-Business + Pre-Finance + Pre-Management + Pre-Accounting + Pre-Marketing + Pre-Entrepreneurship + Pre-Public-Policy + Pre-International-Relations + Pre-Development-Studies + Pre-PPE cohorts at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Indonesia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam + Philippines + Egypt + South-Africa + Kenya + Nigeria + Ghana + Saudi + Qatar + Bahrain + Kuwait + Oman + Jordan + Lebanon + Brazil + Mexico + Argentina + Chile + Colombia + Peru + Russia + Turkey + Iran + Iraq + Israel + European + Asian + African + South-American + North-American + Middle-Eastern + Oceanian international IB schools.

The Grademy AI tutor is purpose-built for IB Business Management HL. It scores every Paper 1 case-study against the IBO Business Management HL case-study marking scheme + identifies-mark-pattern + surfaces-the-concept-gap. It scores every Paper 2 extended-response against the IBO Business Management HL extended-response marking scheme + identifies-marks-missed + surfaces-the-concept-gap. It scores every Paper 2 data-response against the IBO Business Management HL data-response marking scheme + identifies-marks-missed + surfaces-the-concept-gap. It scores every Paper 3 pre-seen-research-project against the IBO Business Management HL research-project marking scheme + identifies-marks-missed + surfaces-the-concept-gap. It scores every IA-Research-Project against the IBO Business Management HL IA rubric + identifies-marks-missed + provides-improvement-plan + surfaces-the-exemplar-gap. The AI tutor prompt library covers all 5-units + Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA-research-project + calculation + extended-response + IB-command-terms + SWOT + PESTLE + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter + NPV + ARR + Payback + Ratio-Analysis + Working-Capital + Investment-Appraisal + past-paper-walkthrough + IA-research-project-exemplar-analysis. The score-7-rubric is encoded into the AI tutor's grading-engine so the candidate sees their progress against the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme in real-time. The Grademy AI tutor simulates the IBO-exam-environment + provides-exam-strategy + identifies-time-management-gaps + surfaces-the-30-week-mastery-timeline.

Section 9 — Closing: the 30-week IB Business Management HL AI tutor playbook

IB Business Management HL is the most-respected pre-university business-and-management qualification globally — the standard for IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates targeting Business + Finance + Accounting + Economics + Management + Marketing + Entrepreneurship + International-Business + HRM + Operations-Management + Strategy + PPE + first-year-undergraduate-Business at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth. The 30-week IB Business Management HL AI tutor playbook gives the IBO-applied-mastery-track workflow: weeks 1-4 = Unit 1 Business-Activity foundations (types-of-business-organisation + business-objectives + stakeholders + growth-and-evolution + organisational-structure + leadership-and-management); weeks 5-8 = Unit 1 Influences-on-Business-Activity (PESTLE + SWOT + Porter + business-ethics + CSR + sustainability + technological-change); weeks 9-12 = Unit 2 Business-Operations (production + inventory-management + capacity-management + location-decisions + supply-chain-management + lean + TQM + Kaizen + Six-Sigma + JIT + ERP); weeks 13-16 = Unit 3 Finance-and-Accounts (sources-of-finance + costs-and-revenue + break-even + cash-flow + profit-and-loss + balance-sheet + ratio-analysis + investment-appraisal + NPV + ARR + Payback + Working-Capital + gearing); weeks 17-19 = Unit 4 Human-Resource-Management (HR-planning + recruitment + motivation + leadership + appraisal + redundancy + employment-law + industrial-relations + diversity); weeks 20-22 = Unit 4 Marketing (marketing-planning + market-research + STP-strategy + marketing-mix-4Ps-7Ps + digital-marketing + branding + product-life-cycle + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter-Generic-Strategies + international-marketing); weeks 23-25 = Paper 1 case-study + Paper 2 extended-response + Paper 2 data-response + IB-command-terms mastery (Analyse + Annotate + Calculate + Compare + Construct + Define + Describe + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + Explain + Identify + Justify + Outline + State + Suggest + To-what-extent); weeks 26-27 = IA Research Project (one-organization + 30-hours + research-question + literature-review + methodology + data-presentation + data-analysis + conclusion + evaluation + appendices); weeks 28-30 = mock-exams + IBO-past-papers + polish. The AI tutor prompt library + score-7-rubric + IA-research-project-exemplar-analysis + past-paper-walkthrough + Paper-2-extended-response-mastery + Paper-2-data-response-mastery + Paper-3-pre-seen-research-project-mastery + calculation-mastery + IB-command-terms-mastery + SWOT + PESTLE + Ansoff + Boston-Matrix + Porter + NPV + ARR + Payback + Ratio-Analysis + Working-Capital + Investment-Appraisal + strategic-management + administration + business-activity closes the 5-to-7 gap on the IBO-Business-Management-HL-marking-scheme for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion + Pre-Business + Pre-Finance + Pre-Management + Pre-Accounting + Pre-Marketing + Pre-Entrepreneurship + Pre-Public-Policy + Pre-International-Relations + Pre-Development-Studies + Pre-PPE cohorts at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Indonesia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam + Philippines + Egypt + South-Africa + Kenya + Nigeria + Ghana + Saudi + Qatar + Bahrain + Kuwait + Oman + Jordan + Lebanon + Brazil + Mexico + Argentina + Chile + Colombia + Peru + Russia + Turkey + Iran + Iraq + Israel + European + Asian + African + South-American + North-American + Middle-Eastern + Oceanian international IB schools. The next post in this series covers IB History HL.

Pairs with IB Geography SL (post-169)

The IB Geography SL playbook (post-169) + [this playbook] form the IB Diploma + IB Standard-Level + IB Group-3 + IB Group-4 + IBO-applied-geography-track + Year-13-geography + first-year-undergraduate-Geography + Human-Geography + Physical-Geography + Environmental-Geography + Urban-Planning + International-Development + GIS + Earth-Sciences + Environmental-Science + Public-Policy + International-Relations + Sociology + Economics + Public-Health pair for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion + Pre-Geography + Pre-Human-Geography + Pre-Physical-Geography + Pre-Environmental-Geography + Pre-Urban-Planning + Pre-International-Development + Pre-GIS + Pre-Earth-Sciences + Pre-Environmental-Science + Pre-Public-Policy + Pre-International-Relations + Pre-Sociology + Pre-Economics + Pre-Public-Health cohorts at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Indonesia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam + Philippines + Egypt + South-Africa + Kenya + Nigeria + Ghana + Saudi + Qatar + Bahrain + Kuwait + Oman + Jordan + Lebanon + Brazil + Mexico + Argentina + Chile + Colombia + Peru + Russia + Turkey + Iran + Iraq + Israel targeting Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Stanford + MIT + ETH-Zurich + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + KCL + Durham + Exeter + St-Andrews + Loughborough + Bath + Toronto + UBC + McGill + McMaster + Western + Queens + Alberta + Calgary + Dalhousie + NUS + NTU + HKUST + Sydney + Melbourne + Monash + UNSW + Queensland + Auckland + Otago admissions. The IB Geography SL 7-core-optional-units (Changing-Population + Global-Climate-Vulnerability + Global-Resource-Consumption + Geophysical-Hazards + Freshwater + Oceans-Coastal-Margins + Leisure-Tourism-Sport + Food-Health-Wellbeing + Urban-Environments + Globalization-Interactions) + 2-Paper-structure (Paper-1-structured-questions + Paper-2-extended-response) + Internal-Assessment-Fieldwork-Investigation + IB-Command-Terms (Outline + Describe + Explain + Discuss + Evaluate + Compare + Contrast + Analyse + State + Annotate + Construct + Identify + Justify + Suggest + To-what-extent) + 25-mark-IA-criterion-rubric covers everything the IB-World-School-cohort needs to bridge Year-12 + Year-13-geography + IB-Diploma + IBO-applied-geography-track + first-year-undergraduate-Geography + Human-Geography + Physical-Geography + Environmental-Geography + Urban-Planning + International-Development + GIS + Earth-Sciences + Environmental-Science + Public-Policy + International-Relations + Sociology + Economics + Public-Health + university-credit + Geography-Admissions-readiness at Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Stanford + MIT + ETH-Zurich + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + KCL + Durham + Exeter + St-Andrews + Loughborough + Bath + Toronto + UBC + McGill + McMaster + Western + Queens + Alberta + Calgary + Dalhousie + NUS + NTU + HKUST + Sydney + Melbourne + Monash + UNSW + Queensland + Auckland + Otago admissions. See post-169 for the IB-Geography-SL-specific exam, score-distribution, and 30-week score-7 master schedule.

Pairs with IB History HL (post-170)

The IB History HL playbook (post-170) + [this playbook] form the IB Diploma + IB Higher-Level + IB Group-3 + IB Group-4 + IBO-applied-history-track + Year-13-history + first-year-undergraduate-History + PPE + International-Relations + Political-Science + Law + Public-Policy + Journalism + Human-Rights + Diplomacy + Foreign-Service + Classics + Archaeology + English-Literature + Public-International-Law pair for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion + Pre-History + Pre-Law + Pre-International-Relations + Pre-Political-Science + Pre-Public-Policy + Pre-Journalism + Pre-PPE + Pre-PPP + Pre-Economics + Pre-Sociology + Pre-Anthropology + Pre-Philosophy + Pre-Classics + Pre-Archaeology + Pre-English-Literature + Pre-Public-International-Law + Pre-Human-Rights + Pre-Diplomacy + Pre-Foreign-Service cohorts at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Indonesia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam + Philippines + Egypt + South-Africa + Kenya + Nigeria + Ghana + Saudi + Qatar + Bahrain + Kuwait + Oman + Jordan + Lebanon + Brazil + Mexico + Argentina + Chile + Colombia + Peru + Russia + Turkey + Iran + Iraq + Israel targeting Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Stanford + MIT + Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Columbia + Chicago + Berkeley + Georgetown + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + KCL + Durham + Exeter + St-Andrews + Loughborough + Bath + Toronto + UBC + McGill + McMaster + Western + Queens + Alberta + Calgary + Dalhousie + NUS + NTU + HKUST + Sydney + Melbourne + Monash + UNSW + Queensland + Auckland + Otago admissions. The IB History HL 5-prescribed-subjects (Military-leadership + Conquest-and-its-impact + Conflict-and-intervention + Civil-rights-and-social-movements + Causes-and-effects-of-20th-century-wars) + 12-world-history-topics (Authoritarian-states + 20th-century-war-practices + Cold-War-superpower-tensions + Rights-and-justice + Independence-movements + Civil-wars + Peacemaking + Cold-War + Arab-Israeli-Conflict + China + Korea + Vietnam + Decolonisation + Apartheid + Civil-Rights + Global-Governance + Conflict-Intervention + Demographic-and-Environmental-Change + Resources-and-Development + Globalisation + 21st-Century-Politics) + 4-HL-regional-options (Europe + Americas + Asia-Oceania + Africa-Middle-East) + 3-Paper-structure (Paper-1-source-analysis + Paper-2-extended-response + Paper-3-regional-essay) + Internal-Assessment-Historical-Investigation (2200-words + 25-marks + 25-percent-of-final-grade + IA-historical-investigation + IA-written-report) + OPVL + historiography + 15-IB-command-terms (Compare + Contrast + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + To-what-extent + Analyse + Describe + Explain + Outline + State + Identify + Justify + Suggest + Construct + Annotate) + mark-band-descriptors (Band 1 Inadequate + Band 2 Adequate + Band 3 Competent + Band 4 Highly-Competent + Band 5 Sophisticated + Band 6 Excellent + Band 7 Outstanding) covers everything the IB-World-School-cohort needs to bridge Year-12 + Year-13-history + IB-Diploma + IBO-applied-history-track + first-year-undergraduate-History + PPE + International-Relations + Political-Science + Law + Public-Policy + Journalism + Human-Rights + Diplomacy + Foreign-Service + Classics + Archaeology + English-Literature + Public-International-Law + university-credit + History-Admissions-readiness at Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Stanford + MIT + Harvard + Yale + Princeton + Columbia + Chicago + Berkeley + Georgetown + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + KCL + Durham + Exeter + St-Andrews + Loughborough + Bath + Toronto + UBC + McGill + McMaster + Western + Queens + Alberta + Calgary + Dalhousie + NUS + NTU + HKUST + Sydney + Melbourne + Monash + UNSW + Queensland + Auckland + Otago admissions. See post-170 for the IB-History-HL-specific exam, score-distribution, and 30-week score-7 master schedule.

Pairs with IB Economics HL (post-179)

The IB Economics HL playbook (post-179) + [this playbook] form the IB Diploma + IB Higher-Level + IB Group-3 + IB Group-4 + IB Group-5 + IB Group-2 + economics-finance-business-consulting-public-policy-political-economy-international-relations-development-studies cohort companion for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India + Pakistan + Bangladesh + Indonesia + Malaysia + Thailand + Vietnam + Philippines + Egypt + South-Africa + Kenya + Nigeria + Ghana + Saudi + Qatar + Bahrain + Kuwait + Oman + Jordan + Lebanon targeting first-year-undergraduate-Economics + Finance + PPE + PPE-Economics + Business + Management + Consulting + Public-Policy + Political-Economy + International-Relations + Development-Studies at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Cambridge + Oxford + Imperial + UCL + LSE + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + Exeter + St-Andrews + KCL + Loughborough + Bath + Toronto + UBC + McGill + McMaster + Western + Queens + Alberta + Calgary + Dalhousie + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + Tsinghua + Peking + Sydney + Melbourne + Monash + UNSW + Queensland + Auckland + Otago admissions. See post-179 for the IB-Economics-HL-specific exam, score-distribution, and 30-week score-7 master schedule.