Official+Extended+Essay+Guide

Click below to download the official IB Extended Essay Guide revised for the May 2013 Session:
(PDF document, approximately 2.8 MB)



How will the extended essay be graded?
====You can find the general assessment criteria on page 15 of the Guide. Specific criteria for each subject begin on page 21. Most EE subjects have their own set of criteria for assessment. ** The PDF document above has the criteria that your examiner will use to grade your essay **.====

====Look at the criteria for your subject (such as history, economics or psychology) to understand exactly what will be graded. For example, the specific criteria for history begin on page 79. You can see from these criteria that if your essay is longer than 4000 words, you may lose points, or if you do not include an abstract, you lose three points from your total score.====

It is **your responsibility** to check these assessment criteria. **DO NOT WAIT** for a supervisor to waste valuable time telling you what you should already know.

The guide has bookmarks for each section; just click on the Bookmarks icon in the gray band on the left side of the Acrobat Reader window.

Ethical guidelines for extended essays research and fieldwork
(PDF document, approximately 42 KB)



This document clarifies the guidelines for research on individuals, for example the use of surveys or information that is considered personal or confidential.