Internal assessments
Planning and proofreading IBDP IA and EE is an important component and carries a great weightage in IBDP scores. It is like a known component for which the element of doubt is less because the assessment criteria are in control. In fact and in my opinion, after spending 12 years teaching IBDP students, I can confidently say that a good IA is a matter of design after careful thinking and following the guidelines rather than mere submission to meet a deadline. Strong IAs are the game changers as they contribute to improving the overall IBDP scores.
It is cognizant to examine your IBDP IA and EE and Theory of Knowledge Essay (TOK essay) with solid planning and proofreading. Most students complete their IA without even knowing what are they supposed to know. The majority of them don’t know what is expected out of them. So, how can students crack their errors and omissions before they wreck their grades?
Not only planning, but proofreading is also the final step of your work. DON’T ever neglect it. Your hard work and solidity of the content get glorified when you take up this extra mileage of fine-tuning. This last polish furnishes and assigns an outstanding value to your work. A proofread work is only treated as COMPLETE. This is done when a strong assessment is done by ensuring that your work moves up the grade boundaries in each assessment criteria.
What’s proofreading?
It’s a close and careful observation of your work, re-reading it carefully with a new fresh perspective for the FINAL TIME. Not only you are called to focus on the nitty-gritty of correct use of grammar, capitalization, numbering, sentence construction, and spell check but also the cosmetics of your work, which involves neat and right formatting.
IBDP IA deadlines
Many students have a tendency to skip this last stage being succumbed to the deadlines of submission. Remember, even if your essay has a rich content, certain errors in presentation can make all the difference by degrading it from an outstanding to a mediocre level.
IBDP subject Guide
Think about the real-life situation of driving down from destination A to B. Which is your pocket guide? Your Google map, right? The same connects here. To reach your correct final destination the IBDP Guides are your road compass, orienting you to reach your final point with precision. Without following your guide your route can be wrong or helter-skelter. Do not agree with what others tell you about the IA.
While your teachers will tell you the right thing however it is strongly recommended that you refer to the IBDP subject guides. Believing random IA samples is strictly NO NO as you don’t know if that particular scored high. You may refer to IB IA samples. Alternatively, for help, you can always contact us and we shall be able to assist you
IA and EE
Your IA is the area where you can substantiate your effort in exploring a concept in a subject. It can be oral or report or essay or portfolio depending upon the coursework. Yes, it’s your independent work under the supervision of your subject expert. Accomplishing an IA with excellence requires you to be thorough with your descriptors.
Always keep in mind that getting your work proofread is a MUST, failing to which your hours-together effort in researching rich content may go underrated during moderation.
Your extended essay is a comprehensive research of 4000 words in any of your DP subjects on a topic of your choice. Its comprehensibility is exemplified in your research, understanding, analysis, application, and reflection.
Always focus on proofread-a careful analysis of every fragment you write with respect to linguistic intricacies, formatting and citation.
Proofread your TOK essay
TOK, being the most sophisticated and precise study of Epistemology, requires you to explicate and exemplify ‘how you know what you know. It requires you to thread your ideas very accurately to back up the claims and counterclaims.
Never ignore the last phase of proofreading your essay, for you have to meet up a target.
Quick tips to fix the errors
In a nutshell, when you calendar your schedule, allow sufficient time to proofread your content. Use some quick tips like MS Word’s Toolkit, fragmentizing your work into pieces and checking sentences forward and backward, use of an authentic grammar and spell check option, and cross checking your soft copy with a hard copy.
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