The Winter holiday was just great since we got to sit back, relax and take our minds off IB. It was a month of heaven just watching movies and staying up late talking with friends. I never wanted the break to end but all great things must come to an end. But here we are right back where we left off, the hardest part of the IB curriculum.
I spent the holiday forgetting about my Economics Internal Assessment but now I worry I won’t finish in time. The Economics IA involves a long process from start to finish and this includes finding the right article and a suitable topic from the Economics course. We are required to write 3 commentaries in total before we take the IB exams and right now I have one commentary finished. For my 2nd commentary, I plan to talk about rent caps which are maximum prices set on rent since Covid has affected the prices of rent all around the world. Before I start writing my commentary I try to highlight important information from the article to include in my IA and also draw graphs to explain the article. I also try to read some samples before I write to understand the format and structures of the IA. Once I started writing, it didn’t take a long time as the information is all in the article and all you have to add is your analysis of the situation and potential solutions that might be implemented. One thing I wish I knew before I started writing was how fast you would run out of words because I had to reduce about 100 words to stay within the word limit.
For the most part, the experience was pretty good as I finished my 2nd commentary and just needed to write one more. Writing the IA also helped me practice for Economics paper 1 as you write nearly the same things and analyze the same points. Something I could have done better was to better manage my time and finish my commentaries early. I suggest future students finish all the commentaries as soon as possible as there are also IAs for other subjects and could all pile up at some point during your senior year.
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