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Read on for tips and advice:</p> <p><em>IBDP Year 1 Student:</em></p> <p>If you're in your first year of the course (which you will have started in August or September) you will still be finding your feet with the course concepts, the areas of exploration, and the different literary works and non-literary bodies of work. However, for many of you it'll already be time to be considering texts and works for the Individual Oral and / or the HL Essay, and perhaps you'll be finishing units of work in class (as my class does) with practices of mini-segments of the IO on works or bodies of work studied (and their connection to global issues) and making HL Essay proposals for topic, ideas and lines of inquiry. 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