Economics Commentary- can the whole class use the same article???

[c.minor]

For our Economics IA, my teacher has given the class the article that we're meant to write the commentary on. So we're all writing about the same article- I've only just started eco so this could be normal, but from what I've heard this isn't right and it just feels weird too.

Any advice? Just looking for a third-party confirmation that this is/is not legit.

[tim9800]

Are you sure that its not just a practice commentary?

Our teacher did an activity with us where he handed us all the same micro article and told us to write a comm., but it was definitely no indication for us to use the same article.

Our school's internal deadline for the first draft of the first commentary is this week - a little over one term into IB2.

Unless you're doing accelerated Ecos, I highly doubt your teacher would tell you to write a real commentary this early on.

EDIT 1:

IB Economics Guide, First Examinations 2013, (p.91)

Individual work
Students must select their own articles to discuss. It may happen that more than one student bases his
or her commentary on the same article, but the article must not be given to the class by the teacher, and
the production of the commentary must be each student’s individual work. A commentary must not be
prepared collaboratively. (Emphasis mine)

This is under the "Internal assessment details" heading of the syllabus - either your teacher hasn't read the syllabus, or its a practice.

Edited February 16, 2017 by tim9800

[c.minor]

haha i hope that's it.... the schools official calendar for deadlines says its an official IA but that might be wrong. thanks anyway  

[tim9800]

np