Guides for Parents & Students
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The MYP Certificate: Does Your Child Need It?
Your child does not need to apply for the MYP Certificate separately. It is awarded through the school at the end of MYP, which is Grade 10 in the Indian setting, and it reflects steady work across every subject and the…
Read article →MYP Summative Assessments: Helping Your Child Prepare Without Stress
The most useful thing a student can do before an MYP summative assessment is to read the task the way the marker will, as a set of criteria rather than a general test of memory. Once a child knows what each criterion…
Read article →MYP Year 4 Tuition: Getting Ready for the Final Two Years
After years of teaching in classrooms, I can predict which students will find the last two MYP years hard, and it is rarely the ones who struggled in Year 3. It is often the students who treated Year 4 as a gentle…
Read article →MYP Tuition for Students New to IB From CBSE or ICSE
A Grade 8 student who has spent years perfecting neat, memorised answers for a CBSE or ICSE paper can be genuinely thrown by a first MYP feedback sheet. The marks come back split into criteria, the comments ask why a…
Read article →Why Is My Child Getting 4s in MYP? How to Move to 6s and 7s
Across West and South Hyderabad, a familiar conversation happens at many parent evenings. A Grade 8, 9 or 10 student is working hard, attends every class, and still brings home a report full of 4s. The parent asks what…
Read article →The MYP Interdisciplinary Unit (IDU): What It Is and How to Help
On Tuesday evening, Arjun, a Grade 9 student, sits at the dining table with three things open: a science worksheet on water filtration, half a paragraph for English about the local vegetable market, and a project brief…
Read article →MYP Year 5 Maths Topics Students Find Hardest
A common belief is that the hardest MYP maths topics are the ones with the nastiest arithmetic: long decimals, awkward fractions, messy surds. In practice, most students in Year 5 can do the sums. What catches them out…
Read article →MYP Command Terms: Why 'Explain', 'Justify' and 'Evaluate' Matter
The most useful thing an MYP student can learn about any question is what its command term is asking them to do. "Explain", "justify" and "evaluate" each call for a different kind of thinking, and once you can tell them…
Read article →MYP On-Screen Examinations: What Parents Need to Know
A common assumption among parents is that MYP on-screen examinations are simply the usual paper papers, typed up on a laptop. That is not quite right. The questions draw on the same subject knowledge and the same MYP…
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