International Baccalaureate

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How Important Are IAs for Your Final IB Grade? It’s a question we hear constantly from both students and parents, usually somewhere around the middle of Year 12, once the IA workload starts competing seriously with exam-style revision:

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners Common IB IA Mistakes That Stop Students Scoring a 7 There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes with an IA mark that doesn’t match the effort behind it — hours in the lab, dozens of pages of

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners IB IA Marking Criteria Explained: How Examiners Award Marks Most students read their subject’s IA criteria once, near the start of the process, and then don’t look at them again until their teacher hands back a marked draft.

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners How to Choose the Perfect IB IA Research Question If there’s one piece of advice that shows up in almost every IB subject guide, in almost identical language, it’s this: the quality of your research question determines the

IBDP Subjects • Internal Assessment • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners The Complete IB Internal Assessment Guide: How IAs Are Graded Ask any IB Diploma student which piece of coursework caused them the most stress across two years, and the Internal Assessment is almost always in the running alongside

IBDP Core • CAS • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners The Complete IB CAS Guide: Ideas, Reflections and Requirements Of the three DP core elements, CAS — Creativity, Activity, Service — is the one students most often underestimate, right up until the final months of Year 13 when a

IBDP Core • Theory of Knowledge • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners The Complete IB TOK Exhibition Guide: Objects, Commentary and Examples Since the 2022 TOK syllabus overhaul, the exhibition has sat alongside the essay as one of the two assessed components of Theory of Knowledge — and for

IBDP Core • Theory of Knowledge • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners The Complete IB TOK Essay Guide: How to Score an A Theory of Knowledge is unlike anything else in the Diploma Programme. There’s no syllabus content to memorise, no past papers with predictable question types, and no

  IBDP Core • Extended Essay • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners Common IB Extended Essay Mistakes Students Should Avoid (and How to Fix Them) Every May and November session, examiners read thousands of Extended Essays that are competently written, reasonably well researched, and still land in the C

  IBDP Core • Extended Essay • Written by the PrepSeven Editorial Team, reviewed by certified IB Examiners Best IB Extended Essay Topics and Research Questions (By Subject) Staring at a blank document with nothing but ‘Extended Essay Topic: ___________’ written at the top is one of the most universal experiences of the IB Diploma.