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Six to eight weeks before the school's first draft deadline is the point where help is most useful, because the topic and research question are still open. Once a draft has been written around a weak question, fixing it means starting again, and few students have the appetite for that in the second year. If the deadline is closer than three weeks, the realistic aim shifts from improving the work to salvaging the strongest parts of it. Earlier requests also get better tutor availability, since IA season creates a queue.

The extended essay runs to four thousand words on a research question the student chooses within a subject. A tutor can help with narrowing that question, testing whether sources exist, planning structure and reading a draft critically. What a tutor cannot do is write sections, supply arguments as finished text, or replace the school supervisor, who signs off on the process and holds the academic honesty responsibility. Practically, most essays stall at the question stage, so that is where outside help pays off most.

It is an essay of roughly sixteen hundred words responding to one of the prescribed titles released by the IB, and it is assessed externally. Students find it hard because it rewards precise handling of knowledge claims rather than content recall, and strong subject students often write vaguely here. Useful support focuses on unpacking the title, choosing areas of knowledge that genuinely fit, and building counterclaims that are more than a token paragraph. The argument and examples must remain the student's own throughout.

Usually the draft, and for a practical reason. The draft feeds a mark that goes forward, while a mock is diagnostic and can be recovered from. But the answer depends on how far along each is. If the draft is nearly complete and the mock covers a paper the student has failed twice, splitting the fortnight makes sense. Ask the tutor to write the split down as a plan with dates. A verbal agreement in a tired evening rarely survives the week.

For one subject, one session a week is the common pattern through the term, rising to two in the weeks around a deadline or a mock. Taking three subjects at two sessions each is where families overload, because homework and coursework still have to happen somewhere. Watch total hours rather than per-subject hours. A student with no unscheduled evening left will start missing sessions, and that pattern damages the schedule more than dropping one subject's tutoring would have.

Yes, and that period often suits short, frequent sessions better than long ones. Study leave removes the school timetable, so the day can be structured around timed paper practice in the morning and a review session later. Availability during that stretch is tighter than usual because many students want the same weeks, which is another argument for booking ahead. Online tends to work better than home visits then, since slots move around as the exam timetable dictates.

Less rigid, but not none. MYP assessment is continuous rather than concentrated in a final exam series, so the pressure points are unit task deadlines and, in the last year, the personal project. Planning matters most around the personal project, where students are asked to manage a long piece of independent work for the first time and often underestimate the process journal. Support there is largely about milestones and reflection quality rather than subject content.

They test different things, so the practice looks different. Paper 1 typically rewards speed and accuracy across shorter items, and improves with repeated timed sets rather than discussion. Paper 2 involves longer structured responses where command terms decide how much is written and in what form. Where a subject has a Paper 3, it usually draws on options or data handling and needs targeted preparation late in the course. A tutor should say which paper a session is aimed at.

Not at all, and this is arguably the most useful moment to get advice. Subject choice shapes the next two years more than any tutoring decision does, and a student who picks Math AA HL on reputation rather than aptitude will struggle for a long time. Sessions at this stage can test whether the higher level version of a subject is realistic, strengthen the specific skills it assumes, and avoid a change of level in the first term, which is disruptive.