MYP eAssessment 30-Day Study Plan

Thirty days is enough time to make meaningful progress in MYP eAssessment, but only when revision becomes more specific than reading notes and hoping the content stays in memory.

The IB assessment overview states that MYP on screen examinations generally last between 1 hour 45 minutes and 2 hours. The IB guide to on screen examinations explains that papers may use videos, animations, simulations, graphs, data, and extended responses. It also states that 75 percent of the assessment focuses explicitly on inquiry, communication, and critical thinking. Your final month must therefore train knowledge, application, digital fluency, and pacing together.

This MYP eAssessment study plan starts with weak topic diagnosis, moves into focused drills, and finishes with timed mini sets and full simulations. It is intended for MYP 5 students who already have class notes and teacher feedback but need a practical daily system.

For a complete overview of subjects, criteria, assessment components, and digital features, read the MYP eAssessment Teacher's Guide.

What This Plan Trains

A useful MYP exam study plan should answer four questions.

1. Which topics are actually weak?

2. Can you apply knowledge in an unfamiliar context?

3. Can you answer the command term fully?

4. Can you complete the paper confidently on screen and within time?

“Effective preparation for MYP eAssessment involves planning, professional development and good teaching and learning throughout the middle years.”

International Baccalaureate

A final month cannot replace the learning built throughout MYP 4 and MYP 5. It can organise that learning into a focused revision cycle.

Set Up Before Day 1

Label your subjects by priority.

Subject A is your weakest or most urgent subject.

Subject B is your second weakest subject.

Subject C needs regular maintenance but less repair.

Gather topic lists, criterion descriptors, teacher feedback, specimen tasks, and authorised examination material supplied by your school. Ask your teacher or coordinator where official resources are stored. Then read MYP Past Papers and eAssessment Practice to learn how to turn each paper into useful feedback.

Create an error log with five columns: question, topic, error type, correct approach, and redo date. Classify mistakes as a knowledge gap, command term error, weak reasoning, source misreading, unclear communication, timing problem, or digital handling problem.

Your Complete 30-Day MYP eAssessment Study Plan

Most days require 60 to 90 focused minutes. Simulation days require the official duration for your subject, followed by review. Work mainly on one subject each day and add 10 to 15 minutes of recall from another subject when possible.

<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Day</th> <th>Focus</th> <th>Exact task</th> <th>Time</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>1</td><td>Baseline</td><td>Complete a mixed set in Subject A without notes. Mark it and classify every error.</td><td>75 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>2</td><td>Topic map</td><td>List all examinable topics. Rate each as secure, uncertain, or weak using evidence.</td><td>60 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>3</td><td>Weak topic one</td><td>Recall the concept, check gaps, answer 10 targeted questions, and record corrections.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>4</td><td>Weak topic two</td><td>Repeat the same process, then explain the topic aloud without notes.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>5</td><td>Command terms</td><td>Answer one topic through identify, explain, analyse, evaluate, and justify questions.</td><td>75 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>6</td><td>Digital fluency</td><td>Practise typing, split screen reading, graphing, calculation, and question navigation.</td><td>60 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>7</td><td>Checkpoint one</td><td>Complete a 60 minute mixed set. Compare accuracy and completion with Day 1.</td><td>105 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>8</td><td>Weak topic three</td><td>Use active recall, complete focused questions, and redo the two hardest questions.</td><td>80 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>9</td><td>Subject B baseline</td><td>Complete a mixed set, mark it, and rank Subject B weaknesses.</td><td>75 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>10</td><td>Source work</td><td>Interpret graphs, extracts, images, or data. State what each source proves.</td><td>75 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>11</td><td>High frequency gap</td><td>Repair the knowledge error appearing most often in your log, then test it.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>12</td><td>Timed mini set one</td><td>Complete a 30 minute set and stop exactly when the timer ends.</td><td>70 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>13</td><td>Mixed application</td><td>Answer questions that combine topics or use familiar ideas in a new context.</td><td>80 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>14</td><td>Checkpoint two</td><td>Complete a 75 minute paper. Review question demand as carefully as final answers.</td><td>120 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>15</td><td>Pacing</td><td>Set rough time limits using marks and question size. Practise moving on deliberately.</td><td>60 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>16</td><td>Timed mini set two</td><td>Complete 45 minutes in Subject A under exam conditions, then review.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>17</td><td>Extended responses</td><td>Write two longer answers. Check command term, evidence, reasoning, and conclusion.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>18</td><td>Interactive tasks</td><td>Practise data processing, graphing, simulations, calculations, or visual analysis.</td><td>75 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>19</td><td>Subject B timing</td><td>Complete a 45 minute set, then rewrite the weakest response from memory.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>20</td><td>Long simulation</td><td>Complete 90 minutes continuously using realistic screen, silence, and permitted tools.</td><td>120 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>21</td><td>Checkpoint three</td><td>Redo repeated errors from Days 15 to 20. Build a top ten correction list.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>22</td><td>Highest value repair</td><td>Target the error that has cost the most marks across the month.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>23</td><td>Full simulation one</td><td>Complete a full paper using the official duration and realistic exam conditions.</td><td>Up to 2 hours</td></tr> <tr><td>24</td><td>Deep review</td><td>Correct every simulation error and redo the weakest section without notes.</td><td>100 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>25</td><td>Context transfer</td><td>Apply a known concept to a new real world or global context.</td><td>75 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>26</td><td>Full simulation two</td><td>Complete another full paper while applying the pacing changes from Day 24.</td><td>Up to 2 hours</td></tr> <tr><td>27</td><td>Final repair</td><td>Redo repeated mistakes and high value questions. Do not restart the syllabus.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>28</td><td>Checkpoint four</td><td>Complete a 60 minute confidence set across secure, uncertain, and weak topics.</td><td>90 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>29</td><td>Light consolidation</td><td>Review formulas, vocabulary, concepts, command terms, and your correction list.</td><td>45 to 60 minutes</td></tr> <tr><td>30</td><td>Final taper</td><td>Use brief active recall only. Prepare materials, stop early, and protect sleep.</td><td>30 minutes</td></tr> </tbody> </table>

Use the Weekly Checkpoints Properly

Days 7, 14, 21, and 28 are not ordinary revision days. They are decision points. Track these four measures each week:

1. Accuracy: What percentage of available marks did you earn?

2. Completion: How much of the set did you finish?

3. Response quality: Did you meet the command term and use relevant evidence?

4. Digital control: Did typing, navigation, or an interactive tool slow you down?

Do not respond to a weak checkpoint by revising everything. Identify the two errors that cost the most marks and place them into the next week's sessions. Improvement comes from changing the plan when evidence changes.

How to Review Every Practice Set

A score tells you how the attempt went. An error log tells you what to do next.

After each set, ask whether the problem came from content, interpretation, reasoning, communication, time, or the digital format. Write one precise correction, such as “state the trend before explaining it” or “use evidence before evaluating.”

Redo the question two days later. If the same weakness returns, schedule it again the following week. A corrected answer is not secure until you can reproduce the improvement without copying the model.

Printable Weekly Revision Planner

Copy this table four times, once for each week. Keep every task small enough to finish in one sitting. Students balancing several IB commitments can also adapt the structure in our IB Study Schedule.

<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Day</th> <th>Primary subject</th> <th>Exact task</th> <th>Minutes</th> <th>Score or evidence</th> <th>Next action</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>Monday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Tuesday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Wednesday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Thursday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Friday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Saturday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>Sunday</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> </tbody> </table>

How Many Hours Should You Study?

For most students, 60 to 90 focused minutes is more useful than several hours of passive revision. Full simulation days need the complete paper duration and a separate review block.

Every session should produce evidence: a marked question set, a corrected response, a concept map from memory, a timing record, or an updated error log. Highlighted notes alone do not show whether you can perform under exam conditions.

What If You Miss a Day?

Do not automatically double the next day's workload. Move the missed task to a lighter day or remove a low priority review. Protect the weekly checkpoints and full simulations because they reveal whether your preparation is working.

With fewer than 30 days, combine Days 1 and 2, complete one weak topic drill per subject, retain at least two timed mini sets, and protect one full simulation followed by detailed review.

Prepare for Performance, Not Just Content

Knowing how to prepare for MYP eAssessment means understanding that the exam tests more than memory. You must retrieve knowledge, interpret evidence, make decisions, communicate clearly, and manage unfamiliar questions while time is running.

Let the final month gradually resemble the real assessment. Begin with diagnosis and focused repair. Add timed mini sets. Finish with full papers and calm consolidation. By Day 30, you should know your most reliable methods, your repeated mistakes, and the pacing routine you will follow.

Use Koncepts student practice to work through MYP aligned questions, focus on weak areas, and make each revision session more purposeful. The goal is not to memorise every possible question. It is to become dependable when the question in front of you is new.