What is the extended essay for?

The extended essay provides: practical preparation for undergraduate research. an opportunity for students to investigate a topic of personal interest to them, which relates to one of the student’s six DP subjects, or takes the interdisciplinary approach of a World Studies extended essay.

Can you fail the extended essay?

A student who fails to submit an extended essay will not be awarded a diploma. The EE is an essay, not a report or a descriptive or narrative essay. It must have a HYPOTHESIS (or point of view) that is effectively argued or defended.

How many pages is the extended essay?

The body of your EE should make up the bulk of the essay. It should be about eight to 18 pages long (again, depending on your topic).

How many points is extended essay worth?

What makes a good extended essay question?

Your question should define its own limits. In other words, it should be specific enough that you can answer it in 4,000 words. And if every word could mean two different things, this means there are two different essays you could be writing and the essay will feel unfocused as a result.

How can I improve my tok essay?

7 Tips for Your TOK Essay

Become friends with Ways of Knowing (WOKs) and Areas of Knowledge (AOKs)
Be familiar with the terminology.
Challenge personal biases and preferences.
Vary research methods.
Make an outline first.
Read past TOK essays that received high scores.
Reverse engineer outlines for past TOK essays.

What are the ways of knowing?

The Ways of Knowing are:

Language.
Sense perception.
Emotion.
Reason.
Imagination.
Faith.
Intuition.
Memory.

What are the three ways of knowing?

There are, I think, three fundamental ways of knowing: observation, logic and intuition/faith.

How many ways of knowing are there?

eight different ways

What are the ways of knowing the truth?

Terms in this set (18)

Methods of Truth.
General and Particular.
Theories of Truth.
Correspondence , Coherence and Pragmatic Theories.
General Method of Correspondence.
General Method of Coherence.
General Method of Pragmatism.
Observation , Reasoning , Intuition , Mystical Experience and Appeal to Authority.