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Researching your Essay
Whether you obtain your own data through practical work or whether you rely on secondary data all Extended Essays require you to put your own work into context through research. This page looks at different...
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Some useful advice
Provided you engage in the process you should be able to obtain at least a satisfactory grade C in your Extended Essay. This page lists ten useful pieces of advice that will help you achieve to the very...
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Criterion D
Criterion D assesses the discussion and how the Extended Essay has been evaluated. This page looks at what is required to achieve the highest mark of 8 for this criterion and also includes some common...
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Criterion C
This page covers Option C - Analysis and line of argument which assesses how well students use their research to produce a clear, sustained and reasoned argument to reach their conclusions. It details...
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Criterion B
Criterion B focuses on knowledge and understanding and on terminology and concepts. This page details what is required to gain maximum marks and lists some of the common errors made by students when...
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Check List
Supervisors are not allowed to correct either their first draft or their final essay but before your students submit the final version of their Extended Essay get them to go through this checklist carefully...
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Framing the Research Question
This page looks at the importance of having a sharply focused Research Question and your role in helping your student to arrive at it. It states that a sharply focused Research Question should enable...
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Choosing the research topic
This page looks at the first meeting between the supervisor and their student(s). This is usually split into two parts. One with all those students who have chosen an EE in chemistry to give them general...
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Writing a bibliography
This section explains what a bibliography is and gives details of what must be included when the bibliography is being compiled for an extended essay. A bibliography is a list of every source used to...
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School
This page lists the responsibilities the school has for Extended Essays and contains suggestions as to how schools can promote excellent practice throughout the school environment. Schools have the overall...