Category: Internal Assessment (IA)
Before you submit any Internal Assessment, run through this checklist. It’s organized in the same order examiners actually read your work — from the research question through to your final reference list — so you…
A 7-scoring Internal Assessment isn’t the result of being naturally gifted at the subject — it’s the result of a small number of specific, repeatable habits applied consistently, regardless of which subject you’re writing for.…
Every IB subject grades its Internal Assessment against a specific set of published criteria, and understanding exactly what each criterion rewards is the single most effective way to raise your score — because it tells…
Every IB subject has a different word count or page limit for its Internal Assessment, and these limits are not suggestions — going significantly over often means examiners simply stop reading (and grading) at the…
Across every subject, the same handful of mistakes appear year after year in Internal Assessments — and they’re rarely about a lack of subject knowledge. Most lost marks come from structural, procedural, or presentational errors…
The Psychology Internal Assessment requires you to design and carry out a simple experimental study, typically replicating (or modifying) an existing study from the syllabus, and analyze the results using inferential statistics. Getting the experimental…
The Business Management Internal Assessment requires you to investigate a real issue or problem facing a real organization, using at least three appropriate tools of business analysis. Before you can apply a single tool or…
The English A Individual Oral is the internal assessment component of both Language and Literature and Literature courses, worth 20% of the final grade. Unlike a written IA, it’s a spoken, largely unscripted 15-minute assessment…
Math AI is designed around real-world application, so the strongest Math AI explorations are grounded in genuine data — collected, scraped, or sourced from a credible dataset — rather than abstract theoretical modeling. If you’re…
The Math AA Internal Assessment — officially called the “Exploration” — is often the most feared piece of coursework in the entire Diploma Programme, mostly because students don’t know where to start. Unlike a typical…