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This post will talk about the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay

In the IB program the best grade a student can get is a 45. 42 of those points come from their 6 subjects. The other three points com from the Extended Essay (EE) and the TOK class. The grade of TOK comes from two assignments. The exhibition and the essay.

IB Maths Tutors. For the essay students have to write 1600 words. The essay will be on a prompt choosen from a list of prompts given by the IB program each year. After that here is a pdf which gives good advice on how to write the essay:

The TOK Essay pdf.

The import things to do are make sure you answer the prescribed title (PT). Once you pick the title you want to answer you have to think of examples that answer the title. It would be best to pick two examples which give different answers to the PT.

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So in the introduction tell the reader: “This essay will argue that…..” and give your answer to the PT. Tell the reader what examples you are going to use and how you will answer the PT. Frist then in the introduction explain the key terms that are in the PT. Second most importantly xxplain what the PT means to you and or how you interpret the PT.

The first body paragraph of the essay will be your best examples that best answers the PT. Therefore spend lots of time thinking of good examples.

Therefore Once you have explained your examples and how they answer the PT. What answer they provide for the PT. For example then try to use some TOK vocabulary like: deduction, induction, observation etc. Above all we are trying to show the grader that you have taken a TOK course and you have understood it.

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