IB Environmental Systems and Societies HL - 2026 - Questionbank
1.3 - Sustainability

The Revision Village Questionbank for ESS HL is a comprehensive collection of IB exam-style questions from Paper 1 and Paper 2, designed to help you practice for your exams and tests. The questions are organised by subtopic and arranged by difficulty, allowing you to tailor your revision to your level and progressively tackle more challenging concepts. Each question includes a mark scheme and a sample answer, outlining possible marking points and showing how to construct an answer. Additionally, video solutions made by experienced ESS teachers help you understand the details.

The Questionbank for Environmental Systems and Societies is designed for maximum flexibility. The questions in each subtopic have been written specifically with that subtopic in mind, so you can practice the subtopics in any order. To provide a more comprehensive practice for the IB ESS exams we have, however, also included questions that require knowledge from multiple subtopics. The last subtopic in a topic will have some questions that require knowledge of the whole subtopic, and the most difficult questions in each subtopic may also need knowledge from other topics. Finally, all topics have questions that require knowledge from Topic 1: Foundation and the Higher Level Lenses.

The Environmental Systems & Societies HL Questionbank includes almost all the question types you would find on an ESS HL Paper 1 or Paper 2, from short-answer questions and data-based questions to longer 9-mark essay questions. They have been constructed to provide practice with all the content and skills required for an IB ESS HL student. There are, however, two types of questions that you will also need to practice in an exam-style setting. Our ESS Case Studies provide holistic Paper 1-style practice, including the 6-mark questions. Our Practice Exams also include complete data-based practice questions such as those found in Section A of ESS Paper 2.