MYP Blog
Plain-English guides to how the IB Middle Years Programme works — grading, the assessment criteria, command terms, eAssessment and study tips.
The IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) explained simply: who it’s for, the eight subject groups, how it’s assessed against criteria, and how it differs from GCSE.
How MYP grading actually works: the four criteria, level descriptors out of 8, grade boundaries, and how criterion levels become a final grade from 1 to 7.
What the four MYP assessment criteria (A, B, C, D) mean in Sciences, Individuals & Societies and Design — and how to move up the level descriptors.
A student’s guide to MYP command terms. What examiners mean by describe, explain, analyse, evaluate, justify and more — with quick tips to answer each correctly.
How MYP eAssessment works in Year 5: the 2-hour on-screen examinations, the ePortfolios for Design and Arts, and what leads to the IB MYP Certificate.
A clear guide to the MYP design cycle: inquiring & analysing, developing ideas, creating the solution and evaluating — and how each maps to criteria A–D.