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So your IB English Individual Oral is due soon, and you’ve never been more confused in your life...

  • How do I start? Where do I start?
  • Is my global issue good enough?
  • Am I analysing my texts in the right way?
  • Does my IO structure make sense?
  • Are my extracts good enough?
  • I’m running out of time…!!!


It can feel overwhelming.

We're here to help.

The Individual Oral section of LitLearn helps stressed IB English students understand exactly how to improve their IO and turn their boring, lacklustre analysis into deeper, more insightful analysis that impresses IB English teachers.

So how do we help you with this?

  • Concise lessons: you don't have the time for 100+ page guides!
  • Short examples of close analysis and wide analysis improvements: practical examples to show you exactly how we would improve a bad paragraph of analysis in the IO.
  • The 4-Step Ladder of Insight: A simple, logical way to systematically improve the quality of your IB English IO.
  • Access to a full exemplar Individual Oral script: that way you can see the global issue, and how a strong student would explore the global issue.

Success Story: Hillary Andru 🇨🇦

Huge, Immediate Improvement in Just 2 Days

Hillary is an ambitious Canadian IB student gunning for an IB 45. She started off with an IB5 and was searching for a way to improve her grades quickly.

In just 2 Days of using LitLearn, Hillary was able to improve by almost two grade boundaries... to 1 mark off an IB7.

Hillary highly recommends LitLearn to anyone looking for an efficient way to improve in IB English, and become more confident in writing and analysis.

Meet your Instructor!

Jackson Huang, LitLearn founder

Jackson is an IB 45 graduate, Class of 2014. Although LitLearn and English teaching is his current focus, he has always been a science-y person. His Chemistry Extended Essay was accepted to the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, and he won the International Brain Bee Championship as an extracurricular.

After the IB, Jackson was accepted to the top US liberal arts colleges: Harvard, Amherst and Williams Colleges for the Class of 2019. He also received Vice-Chancellor scholarships to the University of Melbourne and University of Queensland in Australia.

Jackson scored a 20/20 in IB English Paper 1. He created LitLearn in 2016, and it has since been ranked as the #1 IB English Resource by ibresources.org. LitLearn's IB English Method has helped 400,000+ students, and counting!