Extended Essay.
Extended Essay assessment guidance and planning tools for IB Diploma students. Organise your own ideas in IB Study Room.
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The IB Core sits alongside your six subject choices.
Topics and guidance
- The EE for first assessment 2027
- Choosing a feasible subject-focused question
- Interdisciplinary pathways and integration
- Project planning, records and supervision
- Finding and evaluating sources
- Research methods and evidence design
- Ethics, consent and safe investigation
- Academic integrity, citations and AI tools
- Reading notes and synthesis
- Analysis and a line of argument
- Discussion, evaluation and limitations
- Structure, word limits and clear communication
- Language A and language B route planning
- Global politics, economics and business route planning
- Science and ESS route planning
- Mathematics, psychology and design route planning
- Final revision, submission and future learning
Coverage and course references
Original 2027 research-skills pathway, subject-route planning and revised assessment guidance; full subject-specific approval remains with the school.
Check the detailed course map and assessment references for the specification covered. Later exam sessions may use a revised syllabus. Notes and practice have not been independently verified throughout.
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