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Last minute tips to level up your TOK Essay
Is your TOK Essay due tomorrow, or worse yet, in the next hour? It may seem that it is too late to make drastic changes to your TOK Essay, and you are doomed to get a mediocre TOK mark. But here are some quick and easy things for you to do in your essay that…
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Deconstructing a 10/10 TOK Essay: Conclusion
The best way to learn how to write a great TOK Essay is by looking at the excellent examples of essays. For the final part, we will finish looking at the conclusion of a 10/10 TOK Essay. We will continue to use the official example TOK Essay from the IB which scored 10/10 that we…
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TOK Exhibition Explained with Examples!
The Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Exhibition is the first piece of assessment students complete in their IB TOK journey. It accounts for a third (33%) of your TOK grade. It is a new assessment for the new guide beginning in 2020 so there is still some confusion around how to do well in this assessment.…
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Deconstructing a 10/10 TOK Essay: Body Paragraphs
The best way to learn how to write a great TOK Essay is by looking at the excellent examples of essays. We will continue to look at the 10/10 Essay that we are working with from when we deconstructed a 10/10 Introduction. This is an official example from the IB which scored a 10/10 Download…
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Avoid These Overused TOK Essay Examples
A TOK essay lives or dies by the examples you chose to use. I’ve written extensively about how to plan out and choose your examples for the essay. The question is, how can you make sure your essay stands out? Chances are, the examples you find online, someone else would’ve found it as well. But…
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Deconstructing a 10/10 TOK Essay: Introduction
Many TOK students have no idea how to get a 10/10 on their TOK Essay. The criteria seems so opaque and vague that it is hard for many to grasp what the IB expects from a good TOK essay. Luckily, the IB has some marked examples. By deconstructing them, we can see what we need…
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The Perfect Structure for your TOK Essay
Alright, you have chosen your prompt, you have planned out what you want to say and you are ready to write! Putting the first words on the page is the hardest part of writing the TOK essay. I will show you the perfect structure that helps you get your ideas down, clearly and coherently, so…
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How do you even start writing a TOK essay?
The beginning of a TOK essay can seem like the biggest hurdle. You might not even have a prescribed title yet, or you’ve chosen one that you don’t understand! Believe me, every TOK student starts out this way, but once you follow the steps to plan out what you can write, the whole task becomes…
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May 2023 TOK Essay Prescribed Titles Explained with Examples
The TOK Essay prescribed titles for the May 2023 session has been released. The six prescribed titles are: Some general thoughts before I go on to elaborate on each of the prompts: Prompt 1 Is replicability necessary in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge. First, consider the key concepts…
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