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Extended Essay: Know Your Criteria

Introduction

It is extremely important that you know and understand the criteria that are used to grade the Extended Essay.
There are 5 different Criteria - A to E
All Criteria are the same for every subject HOWEVER there are some specific requirements for essays in certain subjects that you must be aware of.

Peer Marking by Criteria

Rubrics

Resource Links

Very useful summary from IB Review - Link to Original Document shown below
Non Subject Specific Simplifed Criteria - good for checking and making comments
Recommended to create your own Subject specific simplified criteria (Example from World Studies)
IBO Pages - Full breakdown of each Criteria
IBO pages on Criteria for each Subject - use the links on the left of the page

Some Subject Specific Simplified Assessment Criteria Rubrics

Assessment explained

Assessment Criteria Information