German B subject report · May 2012

May 2012 extended essay reports Page 1 © International Baccalaureate Organization 2012 GERMAN B Overall grade boundaries Grade: E D C B A Mark range: 0 - 7 8 - 15 16 - 22 23 - 28 29 - 36 General comments Most extended essays were submitted on time and paper work was generally filled in correctly. Teacher‟s comments in the superviso r‟s report were useful, but there were a few essays without any comments whatsoever which makes Criterion K difficult to award. In one or two cases teachers h ad filled in the examiner grid. S upervisors must provide a predicted grade but they should not mar k or write comments on the final essay that is submitted to the examiner. Abstracts are not necessarily f amiliar to all German teachers, and in a few cases the abstract was missing altogether. However, careful reading of the Extended essay guide should pro vide all the necessary help, and samples of good practice are available as IB publications. The range and suitability of the work submitted In this session the subject matter of the extended e ssays covered a wide range of topics and was spread over all th ree categories, with perhaps a predominance of Category 2 topics. Marks represented the full range, from excellent to elementary, but on the whole the quality of essays was encouraging, continuing the positive development in previous years. There were few pure Category 1 essays submitted. Popular choices were “Schweizerdeutsch” and “Der Einfluss des Engl ischen auf die deutsche Sprache” , as was the case in previous years. These essays varied in quality; the topic s are c omplex, and the essays of weaker students tended to remain purely descriptive. Category 2 essays also varied, often depending on how the focus and topic were chosen. For Category 2A , surveys to determine the nature of language use were not always successful due to broad, even irrelevant , question design and a lack of analysis, but “ Schweizerdeutsch und die Identitätsfrage” and “Sexismus und das Binnen -I” were relevant and interesting essays, showing involvement and insight. “Performance Sprache – Verbreitung und Auswirkung von Anglizisme n in de r deutschen