Formal letter to the Head of the International Bacalaureate

To whom it concerns, I am the Head of the Humanities Department writing in regards to the results for this year's finals, in particular for history. The results were highly irregular and suggest to me considerable inconsistency in the marking. To begin with, it seems unbelievable to me that my best student could only manage a 6 in SL (despite a near-flawless internal assessment and having produced the most proficient essays) and yet another student managed …

…such marking, especially as they are inconsistent compared to previous years. I am at a loss as to how best advise my seniors this year when I have such incomprehensible results to use as a basis. My students particularly feel let down, having worked so hard (and whose parents paid so much) for an IB diploma which they now say was a mistake; so much special effort with such little reward. Faithfully, William Tiberius Sledge