Extended+Essay+Guidelines

=** Extended Essay Guidelines: **=

Please read the following documents to help you succeed with your EE. The EE can be a very arduous task (if you needed to look up the definition of

arduous those of the types of words we want in our essay!) but by simply following the rules of the EE listed below you can easily pass. And with

some passion you can easily obtain an A or B.

**First thing get to know the rubric:** As I mentioned earlier half of the battle is centered around following this rubric. Now there is a general rubric with subject specific ideas attached. Please ensure that you read both. The General Rubric - Subject Specific Stuff -

A bunch of IB Stuff -

The last file here is a treasure trove of information as it the gurus at IB discussing the good and the bad about the last years EE's and where each criterion can be improved overall. Use these suggestions to help build your EE.



This is a huge deal to make sure that you cite your sources properly and yes you MUST have sources this needs to be a research based essay. Since it is in a science your main research will deal with the phenomenon your choice and then researching accepted results and reasons for any discrepancies between your experiment and these values. Unless you made an image yourself you must reference it.
 * Some tools for citing:**



By no means should you read each of these...and it is ok if you have no ideas what is going on in some of them. This is one of the main ways that the EE differentiates from the IA. Take a look at some across a wide variety of scores to see what makes a good EE good and a bad EE bad.
 * Here are the exemplars:**




 * Exemplar of Chemistry EE:**