Let me start by easing your burden: you are no longer required to write an abstract for your IB extended essay. Having spent years working with IB students, I’ve seen firsthand how easily misunderstandings may arise over out-of-date criteria. One of the most frequent errors students make is spending time on something that is no …
If you’re reading this because your teacher found plagiarism in your extended essay, don’t worry. It’s not the end of a life. As someone who has worked with many IB students over the years, I can tell you this happens more often than you think.
Let’s face it: even the most diligent IB student may be derailed by plagiarism, one of the most frequent errors in an extended essay. To help you in avoiding plagiarism in the EE while making the process easy and stress-free, I want to provide some useful tools and techniques.
originality in EE is the lifeblood of a good IB project. Many students, rightly, concentrate on organization, research, and citations, but they often ignore something that may really set their work apart: their unique voice. I believe originality distinguishes the “good” extended essays from the “great” ones.
Although writing an IB extended essay may seem intimidating, I can tell you from experience that effective time management is the secret to success. Using the correct tactics early on makes the entire process much smoother, from planning to submission.
At first, writing an IB Extended Essay can be hard, especially if you have a lot of time to do it and a blank page. And I can say with certainty that picking the right extended essay research method makes the whole writing process go more smoothly and with a lot less stress.
TOK essays are a lot like dinner parties: you need good conversation starters, well-thought-out ideas, and a few funny lines that people will remember. November 2025’s prompt 6 is a great one to host if you like big questions with a side of subtle complexity.
I have to say that Prompt 5 is one of the most interesting questions the IB has given us in a while. It asks, “Is it possible or even desirable to temporarily put aside what we already know—in the pursuit of knowledge?” It does sound philosophical, but it’s also very practical.
Yes, this November 2025 TOK Prompt 4 is beautiful, tricky, and just right to make students wonder if it hides a secret. It’s been a while since I’ve helped a student with an IB Theory of Knowledge essay, but this one really makes me think. As always, an IB favorite, it plays with the strain between change and consistency. The prompt is like being given a magnifying glass and asked to look into how knowledge works on the inside.
This TOK title looks nice but pokes a giant philosophical bear. “Should knowledge be pursued for its own sake?” is a question about meaning, the point of knowledge, and whether all knowledge needs to be useful. This TOK essay prompt gives you a great chance to think critically about why people learn, and it lets you compare cold, abstract fields like math with more human-centered fields like the arts or natural sciences.
