Extended Essay
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I'm doing my EE soon, and I wanted to do something with Psychology. I've a huge interest in Criminology, so I wanted a statement about that, but it's hard to find something that relates to Human Behavior. A girl from my class already has a topic about childhood influences behavior, so I want something different from that. Anyone has an idea on Anthropological Criminology?
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Hello everyone. I've been trying to come up with a good research question for a philosophy EE and for the moment I just know that I would like to discuss the importance that utilitarianism (if it needs to be more specific I'd like to specifically discuss Mill's utilitarian perspectives) has had in the development of feminism. But I've been having great issues trying to properly structure my research question. Could someone please help me out? I'd appreciate it SO SO MUCH
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I am doing my EE on Film, there is no such subject n my school, therefore I need the help of an external advisor... Does anyone have this subject in their school, if you do can I get in contact with your teacher? I will be contacting him/her via mail. I only need them for knowing if I'm doing my work right within the parameters of the guide and the second just to revise it at the end. Every help or advice is very helpful!
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This may be the most stupid question ever, but are we required to put graphs on the Chemistry Extended Essay? All my dependent variables produce data that are not appropriate for graphs. If I don't use any graphs, will that negatively impact my mark?
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In my IB highschool, there is no subject such as Film. I know it is recommended not to do your EE on a subject that its not in your school. I have consciously decided to do it this way but I believe that I will get a better score if anyone could help e out. If your school has this subject and your ib teacher is willing to help me just for really little periods of time, just so I properly write the EE it will really help me out. I will be contacting him/her via gmail. If you guys have any advice I could really use it. Thanks, best regards to everybody.
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Hi, I am currently doing my extended essay on Economics and my intended RQ is To what extent does the food delivery platform industry has impacted the demand for dine-in service to restaurants of different price levels in X. I have been struggling in the introduction for two months I still do not know what exactly the direction that I am supposed to be doing. I am still not sure about the RQ.
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I am having trouble figuring out what to do for my Biology EE. I had wanted to do something about hearing but I do not know what I could test for, and so much that it would make a full bio EE paper. And I've tried searching up information to base my EE off of but there really is no data out there. So I'll need an experiment for it. I was thinking that since I am hearing impaired I could have someone with normal hearing and test them at certain distances or certain volumes and then test myself, and maybe more factors could generate more experimental data? Any help you guys could give me would be wonderful thank you :)
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Dear associates, I need your help. My Extended Essay subjects & topic are due soon, but I am struggling with the choice. I am determined to study medicine after graduating, and thus I want my EE to be relevant. However, when it comes to related sciences, Biology and Chemistry, teachers in my school strongly advise against them, claiming that students get the lowest grades for these subjects. I am interested in them but not much competent in either Bio or Chem, as I picked them only a month ago (this is another story 😂). Those of you who are experienced in the sciences or anyone willing to help, please give me your advice! Is it true that it is nearly imposs…
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hey guys! I am new here. I am starting writing my extended essay in English B but I am so confused. I want to write about Disney movies. I think of portraying the way how women stereotypes have been broken from "Cinderella" and "Snow White and seven dwarfs" to "Frozen" and "Brave". Do you think this is a good enough topic? any suggestions or advice?
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I need help in writing a good EE question, so far I have one but of course, I know it's not the best. What is the impact of parenting styles on a child’s behavior, based on the Chinese and American culture? Any opinions?? or help on how to improve it?? :)
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Hi I am an ib physics hl student and I'm gonna do my ee in the same subject please help me with a good topic. Is the physics behind basketball a good Idea if so can you help me with the specifics
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So basically my question is formed in the title. Problem is I thought of doing a chemistry EE, because it's my HL, but I'm having serious doubts. Many people recommended of maybe doing EE in english (which is also my HL) because it might be easier. I'm planning to study something in the natural science field so I'm having doubts whether an english EE could affect my applications to universities because it's not in the same field as the studies or the universities don't care about what EE you did. Thank you in advance for all the answers, any help is very appreaciated. P.S. Please don't think I'm just trying to pass IB in easiest way possible because that is so not t…
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Hi! I'm doing an EE in psychology specifically on how altering circadian rhythms affect cognitive ability. I'm looking for sources and I am unsure of how many ill really need for the final product.
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Starting my music EE and was wondering if anyone had anything they could advise me against or for
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hey guys, I have a bit of a dilemma. basically, I want to study neuroscience in university and I was encouraged to do my EE on something related to that so that I get more recognition and acceptance in universities. I want to do it on either biology or psychology however I heard that doing it on a group 4 subject is deathly and getting an A is very difficult. Howeverrrr, I do psychology online meaning I don't have the supervisor there in person to give me verbal feedback and support me easily. what should I do??? also is it stupid to do an ee related to neuroscience because there aren't many experiments I can do anyways???
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Hello! I'm a M2020 student and we're at the point where we're looking at topics/questions/sources for our extended essays. I was thinking of doing something along the lines of Artificial Neural Networks, however I'm not sure whether I should write an ITGS based essay or a computer science one. I don't take IB Computer Science (however I've done the subject at GCSE) although I do take ITGS at SL. I don't particularly enjoy ITGS as much as computer science, although I've heard that group 4 EE's are more difficult to score well in, which is what is putting me off.
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to summarize, the advisor assigning system at my school is really flawed and i still have no advisor although everyone was chosen by their advisors about 1 or 2 months ago. pretty much the school left me hanging until the last minute and now i have to change my entire topic and subject to english so i can get an advisor. i have an idea of perhaps comparing or contrasting the protagonists in catcher in the rye and perks of being a wallflower but obviously that's just a basis to narrow down into a proper question. however, many teachers are telling me that young adult novels are frowned upon and score very poorly. is that just subject to the effort one puts into their essay…
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Hi everyone, I am struggling to find a topic for my EE. I am interested in music so I proposed to my TOK teacher that I do the discography of Kanye West (keep in mind this is topic and not a KQ). He has some meaningful lyrics and the tone of his albums are thorough. I thought I was a good idea but she doesn't think so; what do you all think?
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Guys, I am planning to do my EE in Radioactivity and Nuclear physics. Are there any experiments that could be done relating to this? And could you suggest where I could find some secondary data of experiments done by authentic labs or organizations as nuclear experiments are not very possible to conduct as a year 1 student. Any other recommendations or tips are also appreciated Thanks! Cheers! All the Best!
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I told my teacher that I wanted to do my EE in English, using the work of Stephen King. I asked if it was better to talk about one book or to compare two different books, and he told me a comparison would be a more interesting choice. I was reading IT but still had to find the second book and the topic to compare. I wanted to take a completely different genre of book but that would be a lot harder and I don't have much time, so I might end up choosing another one of his books like The Shining or Pet Sematary. Regarless of what book I choose, I still don't know what topic to discuss in my EE. I was thinking about taking two characters or the way each book treats a certain …
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I have a big problem with procrastination, and so I already failed to turn my original topic in on time (which turned out to be impossible to carry out anyways), and now I am looking for another one (don't worry, I won't be asking you for it), I need to turn it in with an outline and bibliography. I was probably too stubborn and too ambitious to choose biology, as I don't even have it on SL, but oh well. Right now I'm trying to design an experiment, am interested in learning about plants and/or their ability to sense and remember information. I found great research about it by M. Gagliano, and tried to come up with an experiment of my own, but everything I wrote so f…
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So the time has come for me to pick my EE topic and I'm all over the place. I'm thinking of doing something with calcium and it's concentrations in foods. But of course I can't just determine which for example green vegetable out of a couple has the most calcium cause that's too basic. I was thinking doing something with the ratio of protein and amount of calcium in different cheeses maybe. I just have no idea how to make this calcium topic more EE like and not so simple. If anyone has any possible variations of these I'd be so happy to hear them and it would really help me out
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Hi, guys, I have just come up with an EE topic but I don't if it is any good. Here it is: The effect of sugar-free gum on the pH of saliva in the mouth after meals. What do you think? Thanks.
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Hello! I've decided to do an extended essay on the 1st book in the Song of Ice and Fire series called "A Game of Thrones". My working research question is "How does George R.R. Martin exploit the literary hero archetype to discard binary gender stereotypes in A Game of Thrones". I've found a lot of theses and other academic work related to this but I have yet to find a person that has done a Game of Thrones EE, no one in my school has done one before so none of the school's archives of EE's help. So, if you have done one in the past, please chime in with what your research question was and how well you did.
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Hi, For my EE, I am writing on Economics, and I have already completed my first formal reflection session on RPPF. Then, I heard that my Economics teacher, who is my supervisor, will leave school next year when I am in Grade 12 and told me he won't be able to supervise me until the completion of the EE. This means that I have to change the supervisor next year when my economics teacher for Grade 12 is confirmed. But what I am worried about is this: 1) Are we allowed to change our supervisor during the middle of our EE process? 2) Because I have already completed the first reflection form and my original supervisor signed it, does it mean that when I have th…
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HELP! I am doing my extended essay in physics and I am worried because I just got to know that I need two independent variables for my extended essay. Is that right? Or am I fine with only one independent variable? HELP PLEASE ASAP!
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Hi, I am currently in G10 and G11 is about to start in two months. I haven`t decided whether I`ll do EE in Japanese or History yet. I take both as HL. I actually wanted to do it in History because history is more interesting than Japanese to me. And my history teacher told me that the world average for History EE is C and I think it's pretty bad! Is it true that the average is C? And do you have any ideas about the topic for EE Japanese?
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Ok so, I'm writing my EE in English Literature A HL, but I'm really clueless as to what book to analyse. I was thinking to do something with Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, because I think it's a good example of a classic that hasn't been completely picked apart and turned inside out by every English student ever (like shakespeare or Emily Brontë). However, I'm finding it really hard to know where to start. If any of you are familiar with Cat's Cradle or Kurt Vonnegut's work, please send me some ideas/things to keep in mind if you have any tips. Are there any other books/authors with in a similar style that you think would work better? I just need all the help that I can ge…
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Can I write about comics? Im English B HL (it’s about the EE)
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Yo, so I wanted to know whether you can make a new EE altogether to upload to the IBO? I finished the IB in may 2018, recieved my grades, my EE was predicted as A, was happy you know (context around 80% of my year were predicted from C-D), go to check my grades, i got a D. Really didn't understand why but with some personal circumstances i was unable to follow up with the standard procedure to improve it or resend the final version in case of an error. Been a few months now, i have the time now to see whether i can do something but i can't seem to find any information about whether i can or not. I've even thought of making an entirely new EE since it would actually t…
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I am planning to take my Extended Essay online from Pamoja. I also take philosophy SL from Pamoja and am quite successful (my grade for the first term is 7). I mainly want to ask people who have taken an Extended Essay with Pamoja before about how it works. How was your supervisor? How was the programme as a whole? What are the challenges you faced and what benefits are there to taking the Pamoja extended essay course?
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I have decided to go partial in order to take the classes that I will need in order to attend university for engineering, as my school's IB program is very limited. Because I am partial, I will not receive a total score out of 45, ergo the essay grade will not count towards anything. The fact that my EE grade would not matter proves to be a double-edged sword; the benefit being that I can freely choose any topic and study it as I please, without the stress of a final grade; the drawback being the fact that all that hard work does not really go towards anything. So really, I would only be doing the EE for the experience. If I do the EE, I still need a subject. …
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Hi, I'm thinking of doing my EE on depression (psychology) and I have two possible questions I'm considering. Could you tell me your opinions on which you think would be better? 1. to what extent are antidepressants effective in treating depression? 2. to what extent does depression affect academic performance in teenagers? Also, I was wondering if depression would be considered a sensitive topic and therefore unethical to write about? I also considered intelligence, but I didn't know if it would be relevant. These were my 2 questions that I came up with for intelligence: 1. To what extent is intelligence heritable/ malleable? 2. To wh…
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So I am doing an English EE and I really want to do something comparing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson. The problem is that I don't have time to read both books before the due date of my topic proposal. I've looked at summaries and themes and character descriptions, but I am just stumped on what to do. please help!
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I have decided that I will do an English ee, however, I am having difficulty choosing a topic. I have some ideas these being the use of satire in the novels (and I'm not sure which two of these because I haven't read most of them yet) to criticise our society and the government in animal farm/1984 and Gulliver's travel/ Fahrenheit 451. Currently, I'm reading Mrs Dalloway and I would consider writing my essay on it but I don't have a topic or a book to compare it to and the same goes for beloved. The third option I was considering Madame Bovary and the awakening but I haven't read them either. Any ideas or opinions? If you have any suggestions I will add it to my rea…
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Hey everyone, I submitted my EE, but then realized that I forgot one in-text citation. I have the citation in my works cited though. Can I change it somehow? If not, will I not receive my IB diploma for that? Thanks in advance.
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Tomorrow I will be having the first meeting with my EE supervisor. I am still unsure and have 5 topics and research questions to decide from. Most likely, I will be doing one of the biology ones rather than chemistry. I have not planned anything. Here are my three ideas (very vague, this is what happens when you procrastinate): How does temperature affect the structure of plant cells and the function of the organelles? How do temperature and concentration of CO2 affect the photosynthesis of different plants? Which sequences of genes make proteins that are responsible for certain dominant or recessive characteristics o…
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I was planning to do something about how globalization has affected social norms in Japan (where I live)? Basically, I think globalization has made social norms more flexible and has changed them... Of course I would have to make the way I gather the data more complex, such as some techniques used in this https://www.unicef.org/protection/files/4_09_30_Whole_What_are_Social_Norms.pdf (I'll think of something, idk) But i dont know how to make it better? One teacher talked about how social norms was a bit too hard to do as you don't know that it's a social norm, but in Japan - I know theyre social norms (social norms are so big in Japan. Its genuinely a fact…
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Whatsup people, I have been thinking about my extended essay question and after a few hours of research this is what I have To what extent does the use and manufacturing of electrical cars benefit the environment in the European Union? I think its too broad and another conflict I have experienced is that I don't do any of the 2 topics this question focuses on. (Geo and physics). I do feel like there is plenty on the internet I can use. If you have a way to turn this into an economics question,(which I do study) or any suggestions please let me know. It would be highly appreciated. I have to submit my EE subject and supervisor choices tomorrow so any answer…
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Hey guys, just wanted to know if my topic and research question for my Studies in Language & Literature EE is feasible: How does innocence play a role in the development of Bildungsroman novel characters such as Paul in “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Holden Caulfield in “The Catcher in the Rye”? So, what do you guys think? Is it too specific? Are the two books I'm comparing too much of an opposition? Also, what would I put in as my sources? Can I just simply say that the two books are my sources? If anyone has done an EE on either book or have compared both, can you kindly provide me with feedback? Any type of feedback is very much appreciat…
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Hi, I want to do my EE in world studies with the topics french and art. My essay question is about the impact of french culture on fashion but the issue is I will be writing the essay in English as I take French Ab Initio. is there a way to have french be one of my subject of the essay but write in english? Thanks so much!
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Hey there, So basically I've done a French B EE and my school wants to conduct the viva voces but they do not know what language I have to conduct my viva voce in as I am the first ever student to do a Language B EE. Would anybody happen to know if I have to do it in French (the language of my EE) or in English (the language my exams will be conducted in)? As you can see, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation and would REALLY appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!
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Hello. So i wrote my extended essay in German B, the topic is about the effect of Germany’s victory in football cup 2014 on the German society and economy. This is specifiaclly linked to group 2a (sociocultural effects). The guides tell that I need to explore the effect of sociocultural aspects on language, however i am not exploring the language. Another guide, more general, which my supervisor gave me doesn’t tell that i need to investigate language and even brings a similar example to my topic as acceptable. So is this topic okay? I am desperately anxious because I am aftaid that I will fail my extended essay and my diploma due to not exploring the effect on language b…
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Hi, I'm looking for an EE topic right now, but I'm not sure where and how to start. Personally I want to do something related to artificial intelligence, but I'm not sure if that would be a good idea. I've heard people say it's easier to do an ee on World History, but I don't think I'll be able to do a good job with social since it's one of my weaker subjects. 😅 Also do you have to choose a topic that relates to an ib course you're taking for the ee? Thanks. Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
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I'm currently working on my EE and I set my question as "The film, Brotherhood of war, depicts a Korean soldier's personal decision to fight for the North after being a South Korean fighter. After his move to northern forces he becomes cruel and is represented as an emotionless North Korean fighting machine, compare to being kind and righteous in the South? This representation indicates that the North were more to blame and greater bullying force and gives an evil image to the North Korean Soldiers? To what extent is this accurate account of the causes of Korean war and the nature of soldiers on both sides?" and I was going through, finding sources and I found diffic…
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Dear all. I am a grade 11th student and recently our school informed about EE. I am very interested in cosmetics so I hopefully want to study the science behind cosmetics at the university, and now I am looking for the topic of EE on something about cosmetic science. The most worry thing is that Whether I can get a good grade if I choose this topic, and my English skills because I am not a native English speaker and I am not confident enough to write this huge essay. Would somebody has any recommendations or EE tips, I really appreciate it. If somebody says science is difficult, I am going to change the subject to English B but I have no idea about th…
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So I'm trying to come up with a topic for my EE, and I really am wanting to work with queer studies, but I haven't taken a straight forward anthropology class, so is that a problem? I've taken a year-long class called 'Values and Beliefs' and I generally do independent studies into social issues and value systems along with a volunteer job that deals directly with social issues and queer issues, so I feel that I can generally keep up with terminology. I also feel that my experiences as a member of the LGBT community and work within the queer community give me a fair amount of background information. I want to do my essay on either the social implications of homosexuality …
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My extended essay is in English A: Lang and Lit and I am very concerned. The book I chose is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I am worried if it is good enough to only analyze. one book My essay analyzes the effect of the history of Alabama and Harper Lee on symbols and its effect on the audience of the book. I am not sure whether it is a good extended essay idea. I've already completed around 2500 words for the essay and I'm not sure if the outline is good. PLEASE HELP!!
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I just competed my Extended Essay and I have to give my viva voce soon. Is there any particular method to prepare for this?
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Hi I gave my EE already back, and I just read about paraphrase quotations... I didn't did it correctly like I put the footnote number a the end of my paraphrased paragraph but I didnt begin my paragraph with "According to blabla".. I did mention the source but would it still considered as being plagiarism? Thank you in advance
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