Those of you with sharp eyes will have noticed that the new curriculum, to be taught from August/Sep 2025 and first examined in May 2027, has undergone some last-minute ‘tweaks.’ The big change is that the SL students will be required to submit an IA proposal, and in order that they have the necessary 20 class hours to work on this, the hours recommended for other areas have been reduced. The updates can be seen here

Here are the new recommended teaching hours.

And here are the percentages allocated to the assessment tasks

Assessment component	SL%	HL%
Paper 1 (1.5 hrs)	35	25
Paper 2 (1.5 hrs)	35	25
Paper 3 (HL only, 1.75 hrs)	n/a	30
IA proposal	30	20

This change means that I will be updating today my one-year and two-year plans for the course…I will edit my original posts and label them ‘updated’. Hopefully there will be no more changes, but watch this space!