IB Economics 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-Economics-HL + IB-Business-Management-HL + IB-Global-Politics-HL + IB-History-HL + IB-Geography-HL + IB-Psychology-HL + IB-Mathematics-HL-Analysis + IB-English-A-Literature-HL + IB-French-B-HL + IB-Spanish-B-HL, often paired with IB-Extended-Essay-in-Economics + IB-Internal-Assessment-Portfolio-of-Three-Commentaries + IB-TOK-exhibition + IB-CAS-creativity-activity-service. Covers IB Economics HL teachers who want an AI workflow for grading Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods + IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries, parents paying for IB-Economics-HL-prep ($300-$3000 for prep-books + $1000-$5000 for prep-courses + $2000-$8000 for private-tutors), IB-World-Schools seeking IB-Economics-HL-internal-assessment-rubric alignment, and overseas IB-Diploma-candidates applying to MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + ESSEC + INSEAD + Sciences-Po + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Georgia-Tech + UT-Austin + Berkeley + UCLA + Michigan + CMU + Cornell + Columbia + Yale + Stanford + Caltech + Brown + Dartmouth + Penn + Johns-Hopkins + Duke + Northwestern + Rice.

Hook: IB Economics HL is the most-respected pre-university economics qualification globally — the standard for IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates at IB-World-Schools targeting MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL. The 2025 score distribution is selective: score-7 rate of approximately 8-11 percent (highest honours + university-credit at LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago), score-6 rate of approximately 19 percent, score-5 rate of approximately 24 percent (the score-5+ cumulative rate 51-54 percent is the IB Diploma + university-readiness benchmark), score-4 rate of approximately 21 percent, score-3 rate of approximately 15 percent, score-2 rate of approximately 8 percent, score-1 rate of approximately 3 percent. The 3-core-units-of-IB-Economics-HL (Unit 1 Microeconomics + Unit 2 Macroeconomics + Unit 3 International Economics + Unit 4 Development Economics) + 3-Paper-structure (Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods) + Internal-Assessment-Portfolio-of-Three-Commentaries map onto Year-12 + Year-13-economics + first-year-undergraduate-Economics + Finance + Business + Management + Public-Policy + International-Relations + PPE + Development-Studies at MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL admissions.

Section 1 — Why IB Economics HL is the most-respected pre-university economics qualification + the LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + MIT + Princeton + Harvard first-year-undergraduate-Economics + Finance + PPE IBO-applied-track subject

IB Economics HL is the IBO-standard pre-university economics qualification for IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates — microeconomics-driven, macroeconomics-required, international-economics-embedded, development-economics-required, portfolio-of-three-commentaries-assessed, extended-response-essay-heavy, data-response-graph-drawing-required, quantitative-methods-required. It is the standard for IB-World-Schools in 145+ countries. Unlike AP Macroeconomics (MCQ-FRQ + 2-hour-10-minute + US-College-Board-format + non-IA-heavy + no-portfolio) + AP Microeconomics (MCQ-FRQ + 2-hour-10-minute + US-College-Board-format + non-IA-heavy) + A-Level Economics (3-papers-100%-no-IA + modular-written-papers + UK-AQA-Edexcel-OCR-format), IB Economics HL integrates microeconomics + macroeconomics + international-economics + development-economics + quantitative-methods + portfolio-of-three-commentaries + extended-response-essay-writing + data-response-graph-drawing + calculation-skills + policy-evaluation across all 3-core-units + 4-extension-topics + Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries. 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 Economics + Finance + Business + Management + Public-Policy + PPE + International-Relations + Development-Studies + first-year-undergraduate-Economics + Year-13-Economics + first-year-undergraduate-Economics admissions at MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Georgia-Tech + UT-Austin + Berkeley + UCLA + Michigan + CMU + Cornell + Columbia + Yale + Stanford + Caltech + Brown + Dartmouth + Penn + Johns-Hopkins + Duke + Northwestern + Rice. This playbook gives the 30-week IB Economics HL workflow.

Section 2 — The 30-week IB Economics HL AI tutor study plan: weeks 1-4 = Unit 1 Microeconomics foundations (demand + supply + elasticity + market failure + consumer theory + producer theory), weeks 5-9 = Unit 1 advanced (market structures + perfect competition + monopoly + oligopoly + monopolistic competition + game theory + labour markets), weeks 10-14 = Unit 2 Macroeconomics (national income + aggregate demand + aggregate supply + fiscal policy + monetary policy + Phillips curve + inflation + unemployment), weeks 15-19 = Unit 3 International Economics (international trade + exchange rates + balance of payments + economic integration + trade policy + protectionism + WTO + IMF + World Bank), weeks 20-23 = Unit 4 Development Economics (growth vs development + GDP + GNP + HDI + Gini coefficient + Lorenz curve + development strategies + foreign aid + debt sustainability + microfinance), weeks 24-26 = Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 exam strategy + diagram-drawing mastery + calculation mastery + policy-evaluation mastery, weeks 27-30 = IA Portfolio-of-three-commentaries writing + mock-exams + IBO-past-papers + polish

The 30-week IB Economics HL AI tutor workflow:

Weeks 1-4 — Unit 1 Microeconomics foundations

• Demand + supply + market equilibrium + price controls + taxes + subsidies + consumer surplus + producer surplus + deadweight loss
• Elasticity (price elasticity of demand PED + price elasticity of supply PES + income elasticity of demand YED + cross-price elasticity XED + elasticity-of-tax-incidence)
• Market failure (externalities + public goods + common-pool-resources + merit-goods + demerit-goods + information-asymmetry + market-power)
• Consumer theory (utility + marginal-utility + total-utility + indifference-curves + budget-constraints + consumer-equilibrium + income-effect + substitution-effect)
• Producer theory (production + costs + revenue + short-run + long-run + returns-to-scale + economies-of-scale + diseconomies-of-scale)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-2-data-response-extraction-skills + Paper-3-quantitative-methods-calculation-skills
• Master target: 80% on past-paper-MCQ-equivalent + Band 5+ on past-paper-extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 5-9 — Unit 1 advanced market structures

• Perfect competition (short-run + long-run + shut-down + break-even + allocative-efficiency + productive-efficiency)
• Monopoly (natural-monopoly + price-discrimination + monopoly-deadweight-loss + regulation + contestable-markets)
• Oligopoly (kinked-demand-curve + price-leadership + collusion + cartels + game-theory + Nash-equilibrium + prisoners-dilemma)
• Monopolistic competition (product-differentiation + advertising + brand-loyalty + short-run-long-run-equilibrium)
• Labour markets (wage-determination + minimum-wage + trade-unions + monopsony + wage-discrimination + income-inequality)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response
• Master target: 80% on past-paper-MCQ-equivalent + Band 5+ on past-paper-extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 10-14 — Unit 2 Macroeconomics

• National income (GDP + GNP + NDP + NNP + circular-flow + injections + leakages + multiplier + accelerator + AD-AS-model)
• Aggregate demand + aggregate supply + AD-AS-equilibrium + shifts-of-AD + shifts-of-AS + long-run-AS + short-run-AS
• Fiscal policy (government-spending + taxation + budget-deficit + budget-surplus + national-debt + fiscal-multipliers + crowding-out + Laffer-curve)
• Monetary policy (money-supply + money-demand + interest-rates + central-bank + reserve-requirements + open-market-operations + quantitative-easing + monetary-base)
• Phillips curve (inflation + unemployment + short-run-Phillips-curve + long-run-Phillips-curve + expectations-augmented-Phillips-curve + stagflation)
• Inflation (demand-pull + cost-push + built-in + hyperinflation + deflation + disinflation + CPI + RPI + core-inflation)
• Unemployment (frictional + structural + cyclical + seasonal + long-run-unemployment-rate + natural-rate-of-unemployment)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods
• Master target: 80% on past-paper-MCQ-equivalent + Band 5+ on past-paper-extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 15-19 — Unit 3 International Economics

• International trade (comparative-advantage + absolute-advantage + Heckscher-Ohlin + terms-of-trade + trade-multiplier)
• Exchange rates (floating + fixed + managed-float + currency-boards + dollarization + real-exchange-rate + nominal-exchange-rate + purchasing-power-parity + interest-rate-parity)
• Balance of payments (current-account + capital-account + financial-account + BOP-deficit + BOP-surplus + Marshall-Lerner-condition + J-curve)
• Economic integration (free-trade-area + customs-union + common-market + economic-union + monetary-union + trade-creation + trade-diversion)
• Trade policy + protectionism (tariffs + quotas + voluntary-export-restraints + subsidies + anti-dumping + administrative-barriers + infant-industry-argument)
• International organizations (WTO + IMF + World-Bank + UNCTAD + OECD + G7 + G20 + BRICS)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods
• Master target: 80% on past-paper-MCQ-equivalent + Band 5+ on past-paper-extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 20-23 — Unit 4 Development Economics

• Growth vs development (GDP + GNP + HDI + Gini-coefficient + Lorenz-curve + GDP-per-capita + PPP-adjusted-income + multi-dimensional-poverty-index)
• Development strategies (import-substitution-industrialization + export-led-growth + Washington-Consensus + structural-adjustment + Washington-Consensus-post-Washington-Consensus + Beijing-Consensus + SDGs-Sustainable-Development-Goals)
• Foreign aid + debt sustainability (ODA + HIPC-Initiative + debt-relief + debt-burden-ratio + debt-sustainability-analysis + concessional-loans)
• Microfinance + microcredit (Grameen-Bank + BRAC + ACCION + Kiva + microfinance-institutions + financial-inclusion)
• Sustainability + environmental-economics (green-growth + carbon-pricing + cap-and-trade + carbon-tax + ESG-environmental-social-governance)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods
• Master target: 80% on past-paper-MCQ-equivalent + Band 5+ on past-paper-extended-response-equivalent

Weeks 24-26 — Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 exam strategy

• Paper 1 extended-response (choose-1-of-3 + 25-marks + 45-minutes + micro-macro-international-development-topics + 25-mark-essay-with-diagrams + definitions + explanations + analysis + evaluation)
• Paper 2 data-response (choose-2-of-4 + 40-marks + 1-hour-30-minutes + data-extraction + calculation + analysis + evaluation + diagrams)
• Paper 3 quantitative-methods (HL-only + 30-marks + 1-hour + regression + correlation + chi-squared-test + time-series + index-numbers + national-income-accounting-identities)
• Diagram mastery (PPF + demand-supply + AD-AS + Phillips-curve + Lorenz-curve + IS-LM-model + Mundell-Fleming-model + game-theory-matrix + Kinked-demand-curve)
• Calculation mastery (PED + YED + XED + PES + GDP-calculations + elasticity-calculations + fiscal-multiplier + monetary-multiplier + equilibrium-calculations + index-numbers + regression-equations + correlation-coefficient + chi-squared-test-statistic + national-income-identities + BOP-calculations + exchange-rate-calculations)
• Policy evaluation (fiscal-vs-monetary-policy + fixed-vs-floating-exchange-rates + free-trade-vs-protectionism + import-substitution-vs-export-led-growth)
• Each topic scored by the AI tutor against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + band-descriptors
• Each topic calibrated against the IBO-past-paper-Paper-1 + Paper-2 + Paper-3

Weeks 27-30 — IA Portfolio-of-three-commentaries + mock exams + past papers

• IA Portfolio-of-three-commentaries (3-published-news-articles + microeconomic-analysis + macroeconomic-analysis + international-economics-or-development-economics-analysis + 750-words-each + diagrams + real-world-data + key-term-definitions + theory-application + 20%-of-final-grade)
• Mock exams (Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods + IBO-past-paper-2016-to-2025 + TZ1-TZ2-TZ3-papers + specimen-papers)
• Polish on weakest units (target Band 7 = score-7-mastery-track)
• Time-management + stress-management + exam-day-strategy

Section 3 — The IB Economics HL competency framework: 8 microeconomics competencies + 10 macroeconomics competencies + 10 international-economics competencies + 8 development-economics competencies + 8 quantitative-methods competencies + 5 extended-response-essay competencies + 5 data-response competencies + 5 diagram competencies + 5 calculation competencies + 4 IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries competencies = 68 IB Economics HL competencies across 9 IBO-applied-track dimensions

The IB Economics HL AI tutor competency framework (68 competencies across 9 dimensions):

Dimension 1 — Unit 1 Microeconomics (8 competencies):

1. Demand + supply + market-equilibrium + price-controls + taxes + subsidies
2. Elasticity (PED + PES + YED + XED + tax-incidence + revenue-elasticity)
3. Market failure (externalities + public-goods + common-pool-resources + merit-goods + demerit-goods + information-asymmetry + market-power)
4. Consumer theory (utility + marginal-utility + indifference-curves + budget-constraints + income-substitution-effects)
5. Producer theory (production + costs + revenue + short-run + long-run + returns-to-scale + economies-of-scale)
6. Perfect competition + monopoly + oligopoly + monopolistic-competition + game-theory + Nash-equilibrium
7. Labour markets (wage-determination + trade-unions + minimum-wage + monopsony + income-inequality)
8. Welfare economics (consumer-surplus + producer-surplus + deadweight-loss + allocative-efficiency + productive-efficiency + Pareto-optimality)

Dimension 2 — Unit 2 Macroeconomics (10 competencies):

1. National income accounting (GDP + GNP + NDP + NNP + circular-flow + multiplier + accelerator)
2. Aggregate demand + aggregate supply (AD-AS-model + shifts + long-run-AS + short-run-AS)
3. Fiscal policy (government-spending + taxation + budget-deficit + budget-surplus + national-debt + fiscal-multipliers + crowding-out + Laffer-curve)
4. Monetary policy (money-supply + money-demand + interest-rates + central-bank + reserve-requirements + open-market-operations + quantitative-easing)
5. Inflation + deflation (demand-pull + cost-push + built-in + hyperinflation + CPI + RPI + core-inflation)
6. Unemployment (frictional + structural + cyclical + long-run-unemployment-rate + natural-rate)
7. Phillips curve (short-run-Phillips-curve + long-run-Phillips-curve + expectations-augmented-Phillips-curve + stagflation)
8. Economic growth (Solow-growth-model + endogenous-growth-theory + technology + labour-productivity + capital-deepening)
9. Business cycle + macroeconomic-policy (recession + expansion + peak + trough + fiscal-policy + monetary-policy + supply-side-policies)
10. Balance of payments (current-account + capital-account + financial-account + BOP-deficit + BOP-surplus + Marshall-Lerner-condition + J-curve)

Dimension 3 — Unit 3 International Economics (10 competencies):

1. Comparative advantage + absolute advantage + Heckscher-Ohlin + terms-of-trade + trade-multiplier
2. Exchange rates (floating + fixed + managed-float + currency-boards + real-exchange-rate + nominal-exchange-rate + purchasing-power-parity + interest-rate-parity)
3. Free trade + protectionism (tariffs + quotas + VERs + subsidies + anti-dumping + administrative-barriers + infant-industry-argument)
4. Economic integration (FTA + customs-union + common-market + economic-union + monetary-union + trade-creation + trade-diversion)
5. International organizations (WTO + IMF + World-Bank + UNCTAD + OECD + G7 + G20 + BRICS)
6. Current account + capital account + financial account + BOP-equilibrium + BOP-adjustment
7. Marshall-Lerner-condition + J-curve + absorption-approach + monetary-approach-to-BOP
8. Mundell-Fleming-model + impossible-trinity + trinity-impossible + optimal-currency-area + OCA-criteria
9. Globalisation + trade-globalisation + financial-globalisation + labour-mobility + offshoring
10. Trade policy + trade-negotiations + Doha-Round + regional-trade-agreements + mega-regional-agreements

Dimension 4 — Unit 4 Development Economics (8 competencies):

1. Growth vs development (GDP + GNP + HDI + Gini-coefficient + Lorenz-curve + GDP-per-capita + PPP-adjusted + multi-dimensional-poverty-index)
2. Development indicators + measures (HDI-components + HDI-rankings + MPI + Gini-inequality + wealth-distribution)
3. Development strategies (ISI + export-led-growth + Washington-Consensus + structural-adjustment + Beijing-Consensus + SDGs)
4. Foreign aid + ODA + concessional-loans + HIPC-Initiative + debt-sustainability + debt-relief
5. Microfinance + microcredit + Grameen-Bank + BRAC + ACCION + Kiva + financial-inclusion
6. Sustainability + environmental-economics + green-growth + carbon-pricing + cap-and-trade + carbon-tax + ESG
7. Population growth + demographic-transition + Malthusian + Boserupian + dependency-ratio
8. Urbanisation + rural-urban-migration + slums + informal-economy + Lewis-model

Dimension 5 — Quantitative Methods (8 competencies):

1. Demand-supply-equations + equilibrium-price + equilibrium-quantity + algebra
2. Elasticity calculations (PED + YED + XED + PES + tax-incidence + revenue-elasticity)
3. GDP calculations (nominal + real + per-capita + GDP-deflator + PPP-adjusted)
4. National-income-identities (Y = C + I + G + (X - M) + injections-leakages)
5. Multipliers (fiscal-multiplier + monetary-multiplier + trade-multiplier + balanced-budget-multiplier)
6. Regression + correlation + time-series + index-numbers (Laspeyres + Paasche + Fisher)
7. Chi-squared-test + t-test + statistical-significance + degrees-of-freedom + p-value
8. BOP-calculations + exchange-rate-calculations + interest-rate-parity-calculations

Dimension 6 — Extended-Response-Essay-Writing (5 competencies):

1. Definition + diagram introduction
2. Explanation + theoretical-framework
3. Application to real-world-example
4. Analysis of cause-and-effect + chains-of-reasoning
5. Evaluation + synthesis + judgment + balanced-conclusion

Dimension 7 — Data-Response (5 competencies):

1. Data extraction from charts + tables + diagrams + passages
2. Calculation + computation + algebra + statistical-calculation
3. Interpretation of data + trends + patterns + anomalies
4. Application of theory + diagram-drawing + labeling + axis-titles + equilibrium-points
5. Evaluation of policy-options + costs-benefits + strengths-weaknesses + short-run-long-run

Dimension 8 — Diagram-Drawing (5 competencies):

1. PPF (production-possibility-frontier) + shape + shifts + points-on + points-inside + points-outside
2. Demand-supply + equilibrium + shift-curves + area-calculations + taxes-subsidies
3. AD-AS + shifts + equilibrium + Phillips-curve + long-run-vs-short-run
4. Lorenz-curve + Gini-coefficient + perfectly-equal-distribution-line + area-calculations
5. IS-LM + Mundell-Fleming + Kinked-demand-curve + Game-theory-matrix + monopoly-monopsony-diagrams

Dimension 9 — IA Portfolio-of-three-commentaries (4 competencies):

1. Real-world-news-article-anchored + diagrams + theory + key-terms + data
2. Microeconomic analysis (Unit 1 application)
3. Macroeconomic analysis (Unit 2 application)
4. International-economics or development-economics analysis (Unit 3 or Unit 4 application)

Section 4 — The IB Economics HL AI tutor prompt library: 7 prompts that score every Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods + IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries against the IBO-Economics-HL-marking-scheme + rubric-band-descriptors

The IB Economics HL AI tutor prompt library (7 prompts):

Prompt 1 — IB Economics HL Paper 1 Extended-Response Scoring Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL Paper 1 extended-response marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL Paper 1 extended-response answer against
the official IBO IB Economics HL Paper 1 marking scheme + rubric-band-descriptors.

Topic: [INSERT TOPIC — e.g. microeconomics-monopoly-vs-perfect-competition]
Question: [INSERT QUESTION — full IBO Paper 1 question]
Answer: [INSERT STUDENT ANSWER — full student extended-response essay]

Output format:
1. Band score (1-7) with justification
2. Definition accuracy + diagram correctness (0-5 marks)
3. Explanation + theoretical-framework depth (0-5 marks)
4. Application to real-world-example (0-5 marks)
5. Analysis chain (0-5 marks)
6. Evaluation + synthesis + judgment (0-5 marks)
7. Total marks (out of 25) with band descriptor justification
8. Specific gap (e.g. missing-diagram + missing-evaluation + weak-analysis + surface-level-application)
9. Improvement recommendations

Prompt 2 — IB Economics HL Paper 2 Data-Response Scoring Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL Paper 2 data-response marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL Paper 2 data-response answer against
the official IBO IB Economics HL Paper 2 marking scheme + rubric-band-descriptors.

Topic: [INSERT TOPIC — e.g. macroeconomics-fiscal-policy-data-response]
Data extract: [INSERT DATA — charts + tables + passages]
Questions: [INSERT QUESTIONS — full IBO Paper 2 questions]
Answers: [INSERT STUDENT ANSWERS — full student data-response answers]

Output format:
1. Band score (1-7) per question with justification
2. Data extraction accuracy (0-3 marks per question)
3. Calculation correctness (0-3 marks per question)
4. Interpretation depth (0-3 marks per question)
5. Application of theory (0-3 marks per question)
6. Evaluation quality (0-3 marks per question)
7. Total marks per question + overall
8. Specific gap
9. Improvement recommendations

Prompt 3 — IB Economics HL Paper 3 Quantitative-Methods Scoring Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL Paper 3 quantitative-methods marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL Paper 3 quantitative-methods answer against
the official IBO IB Economics HL Paper 3 marking scheme.

Question: [INSERT QUESTION — full IBO Paper 3 quantitative-methods question]
Answer: [INSERT STUDENT ANSWER — full student quantitative-methods answer]

Output format:
1. Calculation correctness (0-5 marks)
2. Algebra + equation-setting + statistical-formula-application (0-5 marks)
3. Interpretation of result (0-5 marks)
4. Method explanation + statistical-significance (0-5 marks)
5. Total marks (out of 20)
6. Specific gap
7. Improvement recommendations

Prompt 4 — IB Economics HL IA Portfolio-of-Three-Commentaries Scoring Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL IA portfolio-of-three-commentaries marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL IA commentary against the official IBO IB
Economics HL IA rubric + 5-criteria-marking-scheme.

Commentary: [INSERT COMMENTARY — student commentary on a real-world news article]
Word count: [INSERT WORD COUNT]
Diagrams included: [YES/NO + count]
Real-world data included: [YES/NO]

Output format:
1. Criterion A — diagrams + terminology (0-5 marks)
2. Criterion B — application of theory (0-5 marks)
3. Criterion C — analysis + chains of reasoning (0-5 marks)
4. Criterion D — evaluation + synthesis (0-5 marks)
5. Criterion E — structure + real-world-data + clarity (0-5 marks)
6. Total marks (out of 25)
7. Band descriptor justification
8. Specific gap
9. Improvement recommendations

Prompt 5 — IB Economics HL Diagram-Drawing Mastery Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL diagram-drawing marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL diagram against the official IBO IB
Economics HL diagram-drawing rubric.

Diagram type: [INSERT TYPE — PPF + demand-supply + AD-AS + Lorenz-curve + Kinked-demand-curve]
Diagram drawn: [INSERT DIAGRAM — student diagram]

Output format:
1. Axis labels correctness (0-2 marks)
2. Curve shape correctness (0-3 marks)
3. Equilibrium point labeling (0-2 marks)
4. Area shading + deadweight-loss-identification (0-2 marks)
5. Annotations + explanation (0-3 marks)
6. Total marks (out of 12)
7. Improvement recommendations

Prompt 6 — IB Economics HL Calculation-Mastery Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL calculation marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL calculation against the official IBO IB
Economics HL calculation rubric.

Calculation type: [INSERT TYPE — PED + YED + GDP + multiplier + BOP + exchange-rate]
Calculation: [INSERT CALCULATION — student worked solution]

Output format:
1. Formula selection correctness (0-2 marks)
2. Substitution correctness (0-3 marks)
3. Arithmetic correctness (0-3 marks)
4. Unit + interpretation (0-2 marks)
5. Total marks (out of 10)
6. Improvement recommendations

Prompt 7 — IB Economics HL Policy-Evaluation Prompt:

You are an IBO-certified IB Economics HL policy-evaluation marker.
Score the following IB Economics HL policy-evaluation against the official IBO
IB Economics HL policy-evaluation rubric.

Policy context: [INSERT CONTEXT — fiscal-vs-monetary + fixed-vs-floating + free-trade-vs-protectionism]
Policy-evaluation: [INSERT EVALUATION — student policy-evaluation answer]

Output format:
1. Definition + theory (0-3 marks)
2. Mechanism of action (0-3 marks)
3. Short-run vs long-run effects (0-3 marks)
4. Side-effects + unintended-consequences (0-3 marks)
5. Stakeholder-impact + distributional-analysis (0-3 marks)
6. Total marks (out of 15)
7. Improvement recommendations

Section 5 — How to use the IB Economics HL AI tutor prompt library

Workflow:

1. Read the IBO IB Economics HL syllabus + mark scheme + past-paper + band-descriptors for the topic
2. Read the student's answer (Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods + IA-commentary + diagram + calculation + policy-evaluation)
3. Select the matching AI tutor prompt from the 7 prompts
4. Inject the topic + question + answer into the prompt
5. Run the AI tutor prompt + capture the output (band-score + gap + improvement-recommendations)
6. Feed the gap + improvement-recommendations back into the next study cycle (weeks 1-30)

Calibration:

• 80%+ on past-paper-MCQ-equivalent = ready for Paper 1 + Paper 2
• Band 5+ on past-paper-extended-response-equivalent = ready for Paper 1 + Paper 3
• Band 5+ on past-paper-data-response-equivalent = ready for Paper 2
• Band 5+ on IA-portfolio-commentary-equivalent = ready for IA submission
• Band 7 = score-7-mastery-track

Section 6 — IB Economics HL vs AP Macroeconomics vs AP Microeconomics vs A-Level Economics vs IGCSE Economics vs IB Economics SL — the IBO-applied-track differentiator

Qualification	IB Economics HL	AP Macroeconomics	AP Microeconomics	A-Level Economics	IGCSE Economics	IB Economics SL
Exam format	Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA	MCQ + FRQ	MCQ + FRQ	3 papers	2 papers	Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 (no IA)
Duration	P1 1h15m + P2 1h30m + P3 1h	2h10m	2h10m	Variable	Variable	P1 1h15m + P2 1h30m + P3 45m
Weighting	P1 30% + P2 30% + P3 30% + IA 20%	MCQ 66% + FRQ 33%	MCQ 66% + FRQ 33%	100% exam	100% exam	P1 30% + P2 30% + P3 20%
Internal Assessment	YES (portfolio-of-3-commentaries)	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO (Paper-3-replaces-IA)
Extended-response essay	YES (25-mark-essay)	NO	NO	YES (variable)	YES (short-answer)	YES (25-mark-essay)
Data-response	YES (Paper 2)	NO	NO	YES (data-response-papers)	YES (data-response)	YES (Paper 2)
Quantitative methods	YES (Paper 3 — HL-only)	YES (FRQ)	YES (FRQ)	YES	NO	YES (Paper 3 — SL-simplified)
Real-world application	YES (IA-commentaries)	YES (FRQ-examples)	YES (FRQ-examples)	YES	YES	YES (Paper 3)
Macro coverage	Deep (10 competencies)	Deep (AP-specific)	None	Deep	Surface	Deep (same as HL)
Micro coverage	Deep (8 competencies)	None	Deep (AP-specific)	Deep	Surface	Deep (same as HL)
International coverage	Deep (10 competencies)	Limited	Limited	Limited	None	Deep (same as HL)
Development coverage	Deep (8 competencies)	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited	Deep (same as HL)
First-year university credit	YES (LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LBS)	YES (US colleges — credit-by-exam)	YES (US colleges — credit-by-exam)	YES (UK universities)	NO (foundation-only)	YES (some-institutions)
Pre-university standard	IB-World-Schools (145+ countries)	US-College-Board	US-College-Board	UK-AQA-Edexcel-OCR	UK-Cambridge-Pearson-Edexcel	IB-World-Schools (145+ countries)
Score-7 rate	8-11%	18-22% (5-scale)	18-22% (5-scale)	A*-rate ~10-15%	A*-rate ~12-18%	12-15%
Cohort target	Year-12 + Year-13 IB-DP	US-high-school-junior-senior	US-high-school-junior-senior	UK-Year-12 + Year-13	UK-Year-10 + Year-11 + international	Year-12 + Year-13 IB-DP

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

• Score 7 (highest honours + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + IIT-Bombay first-year-undergraduate-Economics + Finance + PPE + Business-credit): ~8-11 percent of candidates
• Score 6 (very-high-honours + many-institutions first-year-credit): ~19 percent
• Score 5 (honours + IB-Diploma + university-readiness): ~24 percent
• Score 4 (IB-Diploma-pass + some-institutions-credit): ~21 percent
• Score 3 (IB-Diploma-pass + no-credit): ~15 percent
• Score 2 (limited-credit): ~8 percent
• Score 1 (no-credit): ~3 percent
• Score-5+ cumulative rate (51-54 percent) is the cohort-wide benchmark for Economics + Finance + Business + Management + Public-Policy + PPE + International-Relations + Development-Studies + first-year-undergraduate-Economics at MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + SNU + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL admissions
• Score-7 (8-11 percent) is the score-7-mastery-track + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + first-year-undergraduate-credit benchmark

Section 8 — The 68 IB Economics HL competencies + the 30-week workflow + the 7 AI tutor prompts close the 5-to-7 gap

The 68 IB Economics HL competencies + 30-week workflow + 7 AI tutor prompts close the 5-to-7 gap by:

1. Diagnosing the specific IBO-applied-mastery-track gap (microeconomics-vs-macroeconomics-vs-international-economics-vs-development-economics-vs-quantitative-methods-vs-extended-response-essay-writing-vs-data-response-graph-drawing-vs-calculation-skills-vs-policy-evaluation-vs-IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries) that is costing the candidate marks toward the score 7
2. Scoring every IBO-Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-data-response + Paper-3-quantitative-methods + IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries + diagram + calculation + policy-evaluation against the official IBO IB Economics HL marking scheme + 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)
3. Routing the candidate into the right practice mode based on the diagnosed gap (Band 4 = Paper-1-extended-response-mastery + Paper-2-data-response-mastery + IA-portfolio-commentary-mastery + diagram-drawing-mastery + calculation-mastery + policy-evaluation-mastery + Band 5 = IBO-past-paper-mastery + Band 6 = IBO-TZ1-TZ2-TZ3-mastery + Band 7 = score-7-mastery-track)
4. Closing the specific IBO-applied-mastery-track gap with targeted microeconomics + macroeconomics + international-economics + development-economics + quantitative-methods + extended-response-essay-writing + data-response + diagram-drawing + calculation + IA-portfolio-of-three-commentaries practice
5. Calibrating against IBO-past-paper-2016-to-2025 + TZ1-TZ2-TZ3-papers + specimen-papers + IA-portfolio-exemplars until the candidate reaches the score-7-mastery-track
6. Tracking progress across all 68 IB Economics HL competencies + 30-week study plan + 7 AI tutor prompts until the candidate reaches the IB Diploma + score 7 + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + IIT-Bombay first-year-undergraduate-Economics + Finance + PPE + Business + Management + Public-Policy + International-Relations + Development-Studies + university-credit + Applied-Admissions-readiness benchmark

The IB Economics HL playbook (post-162) + IB Math HL AA (post-158) + IB Math HL AI (post-159) + IB Physics HL (post-157) + IB Chemistry HL (post-160) + IB Biology HL (post-161) + IB Extended Essay + IB Internal Assessment + IB TOK Essay form the IB Group-3 + IB Group-4 + IB Group-5 + IB-Core cluster for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion + Pre-Economics + Pre-Finance + Pre-Business + Pre-Management + Pre-Public-Policy + Pre-International-Relations + Pre-Development-Studies cohorts at IB-World-Schools in Switzerland + Singapore + Hong-Kong + UAE + UK + US + Canada + Australia + New-Zealand + Japan + Korea + China + India targeting MIT + Princeton + Harvard + Chicago + LSE + Oxford + Cambridge + LBS + Bocconi + HEC-Paris + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL admissions.

Pairs with IB Psychology HL (post-163)

The IB Psychology HL playbook (post-163) + [this playbook] form the IB Diploma + IB Higher-Level + IBO-applied-track + Year-13-psychology + first-year-undergraduate-Psychology + Neuroscience + Medicine + Clinical-Psychology + Counselling + Sociology + Anthropology + Education + Child-Development + Behavioural-Science + Marketing + Human-Resources + PPE pair for the IB-Diploma-Programme Year-12 + Year-13 candidates + IB-Bilingual + IB-Course-Companion + Pre-Psychology + Pre-Medicine + Pre-Neuroscience + Pre-Clinical-Psychology + Pre-Counselling + Pre-Sociology + Pre-Anthropology + Pre-Education + Pre-Child-Development + Pre-Behavioural-Science + Pre-Marketing + Pre-Human-Resources + 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 targeting 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 + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL admissions. The IB Psychology HL 3-core-levels-of-analysis (Level 1 Biological Approach + Level 2 Cognitive Approach + Level 3 Sociocultural Approach) + 4-Optional-Topics (Abnormal Psychology + Developmental Psychology + Health Psychology + Psychology of Individual Differences) + 3-Paper-structure (Paper-1-short-answer + Paper-1-extended-response + Paper-2-short-answer + Paper-2-extended-response + Paper-3-research-methods) + Internal-Assessment-Report-1500-words + 8-biological-approach-competencies + 8-cognitive-approach-competencies + 8-sociocultural-approach-competencies + 5-abnormal-psychology-competencies + 5-developmental-psychology-competencies + 5-health-psychology-competencies + 5-psychology-of-individual-differences-competencies + 5-qualitative-research-competencies + 5-quantitative-research-competencies + 5-experimental-method-competencies + 5-case-studies-competencies + 5-correlation-studies-competencies + 5-statistics-analysis-competencies + 5-ethics-application-competencies + 5-IA-report-competencies + 7-prompt-AI-tutor-library + score-7-rubric covers everything the IB-World-School-cohort needs to bridge Year-12 + Year-13-psychology + IB-Diploma + IBO-applied-mastery-track + first-year-undergraduate-Psychology + Neuroscience + Medicine + Clinical-Psychology + Counselling + Sociology + Anthropology + Education + Child-Development + Behavioural-Science + Marketing + Human-Resources + PPE + university-credit + Applied-Admissions-readiness at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL. See post-163 for the IB-Psychology-HL-specific exam, score-distribution, and 30-week score-7 master schedule.

Pairs with IB Psychology HL (post-163) — IB Group-3 sibling

The IB Psychology HL playbook (post-163) is the IB Group-3 Individuals-and-Societies + IB Group-3-Mastery + Psychology-Track + Neuroscience-Track + Medicine-Track + Clinical-Psychology-Track + Counselling-Track + Sociology-Track + Anthropology-Track + Education-Track + Child-Development-Track + Behavioural-Science-Track + Marketing-Track + Human-Resources-Track + PPE-Track sibling for this IB-Biology-HL (post-161) OR IB-Economics-HL (post-162) playbook. Together they form the IB Group-3 + Group-4 + Group-5 IB-Diploma + IB-Higher-Level + IBO-applied-mastery-track pair for the 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 targeting 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 + NUS + NTU + HKUST + KAIST + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL admissions. The IB Psychology HL 3-core-levels-of-analysis (Biological + Cognitive + Sociocultural) + 4-optional-topics + Paper 1 + Paper 2 + Paper 3 + IA-Report + 74-competency-framework covers everything the IB-World-School-cohort needs to bridge Year-12 + Year-13-psychology + IB-Diploma + IBO-applied-mastery-track + first-year-undergraduate-Psychology + Neuroscience + Medicine + Clinical-Psychology + Counselling + Sociology + Anthropology + Education + Child-Development + Behavioural-Science + Marketing + Human-Resources + PPE + university-credit + Applied-Admissions-readiness at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL. See post-163 for the IB-Psychology-HL-specific exam, score-distribution, and 30-week score-7 master schedule.

Pairs with IB Business Management HL (post-164) — IB Group-3 sibling

The IB Business Management HL playbook (post-164) is the IB Group-3 Individuals-and-Societies + IB Group-3-Mastery + Business-Track + Finance-Track + Accounting-Track + Management-Track + Marketing-Track + Entrepreneurship-Track + International-Business-Track + HRM-Track + Operations-Management-Track + Strategy-Track + PPE-Track sibling for this IB-Economics-HL (post-162) OR IB-Psychology-HL (post-163) playbook. Together they form the IB Group-3 + Group-4 + Group-5 IB-Diploma + IB-Higher-Level + IBO-applied-mastery-track pair for the 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 targeting 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 + UCL + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth admissions. The IB Business Management HL 5-units (Unit 1 Business-Activity + Unit 1 Influences-on-Business-Activity + Unit 2 Business-Operations + Unit 3 Finance-and-Accounts + Unit 4 Human-Resource-Management + Unit 4 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 + IB-Command-Terms (Analyse + Annotate + Calculate + Compare + Construct + Define + Describe + Discuss + Evaluate + Examine + Explain + Identify + Justify + Outline + State + Suggest + To-what-extent) + 80-competency-framework covers everything the IB-World-School-cohort needs to bridge Year-12 + Year-13-business + IB-Diploma + IBO-applied-mastery-track + first-year-undergraduate-Business + Finance + Accounting + Economics + Management + Marketing + Entrepreneurship + International-Business + HRM + Operations-Management + Strategy + PPE + university-credit + Applied-Admissions-readiness at MIT + Stanford + Caltech + Imperial + Cambridge + Oxford + UCL + LSE + Warwick + Edinburgh + Manchester + Bristol + Durham + KCL + Wharton + LBS + HBS + Chicago-Booth. See post-164 for the IB-Business-Management-HL-specific exam, score-distribution, and 30-week score-7 master schedule.

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.