You also need to be able to collect some primary data to help answer your chosen question, so fieldwork methods need to be considered at an early stage in the planning process. Remember that you need to be able to break down the question into several measurable hypotheses, which will provide the basis for your conclusions and answer to the fieldwork question. This blog post provides some suggestions of IA titles across a range of different topic areas from the new 2019+ syllabus to help you consider what sort of fieldwork question you can investigate. So what can I investigate as part of my IA? To help you with your planning and and whilst you’re writing the IA, I would strongly suggest having a copy of the mark scheme to hand in order to ensure that you are fulfilling all the requirements so that you can maximise your mark. However, there is an emphasis upon students having developed the initial proposal themselves, part of which will include the fieldwork question, supporting hypotheses and appropriate methods. The specific details are outline d via the IB website. The IB syllabus emphasises that, although the IA report must be the student’s individual work, they may seek some guidance from teachers, both in the planning and writing stages of the project.

Focus is on a local study with primary data collected by the student.

20% of overall HL Geography mark, 25% for SL.Fortunately, you don’t need to worry about these differences! Here is a breakdown of the key features for the new IA: The new IA is largely the same as the outgoing one, although inevitably there are some differences due to syllabus content changes. If you haven’t, I expect that you’ll be starting it very soon! However, for those of you starting the new IB syllabus (which will be first examined in summer 2019), you’re very unlikely to have started thinking about the IA and will be encountering it at some point in the not too distant future.

It’s likely that if you’re taking your IB exams for the outgoing syllabus in Summer 2018, you’ve already started working on your IA and have therefore given some thought to what you’re going to investigate.

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