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The Extended Essay (2027): an overview

This page explains what is expected in an Extended Essay, and how you can go about choosing a Research Question. What is the extended essay? It is a piece of personal research into a topic of your choice which has to be presented in the format of a formal research paper of around 4,000 words. You can choose to do either i) the subject-focused pathway, i.e. just on History, or (ii), the interdisciplinary pathway, i.e....

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