Extended Essay
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1. Just to make it clear - we will not give you a topic for your EE, but we will help you refine and expand on your original ideas for a topic. You are marked on your choice of topic so we can't help you with that.
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I am writing my EE on the negative effect of the US-China trade war on Apple, and I'm just wondering if anyone else has similar topics and I'd love to know how your EEs are going and help out with issues!
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I want to do an EE on biofuels, and i was going to use a calorimeter for the testing of each fuel, but i was advised against it. Any alternative methods to test fuel efficiency?
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Hello, My name is Taha, I'm 17 years old, and currently in 12th grade. I'm looking for someone to help me with my Extended Essay. I've decided to focus my essay on quantum locking: including superconductors (YBCO), the Meissner Effect. I have access to the materials needed to experiment with this topic (materials from quantumlevitation.com). Some ideas I had in mind was to discuss the Meissner Effect in superconductors when cooled down to a critical temperature with liquid nitrogen. I was inspired to this topic when watching a talk on TED.com about quantum locking and quantum levitation (video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXHczjOg06w) This aim of th…
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is it better to use parentheses or footnotes for the references (my EE is in Biology if that matters)? one person who reviewed my EE and is studying Bio at uni and did her EE in Bio ofc said it's better to use parentheses while my teacher says it's better to use footnotes and I don't know what to do, can someone help please?
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hi guys so my research question is What role did Kalighat painting play in Jamini Roy's artworks? jamini roy is an indian artist. so can u tell me how shud i start my research like what should i already know and if u have any other suggestions please help. thank youu
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Is trying to isolate an antibiotic producer from a local soil sample and then testing its effectiveness on a nonpathogenic bacteria a good EE idea? Or instead of testing it drying to identitify using various tests? Is it strong enough to write an EE on? Also does this fit into the IB ethic guidelines?
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Hi guys, I have a research topic that I am really interested in and I have started the whole EE process early and have been doing some research for about a month now (outside of school). We have to know our specific question in like a week and I have one, I just want to see what you guys think of it. I want to do a cost versus benefit analysis on the economic and environmental effects of nickel mining in Indonesia. Here is my question for my topic: Are the economic benefits of nickel mining in Indonesia worth the environmental costs? I have some questions about it that I'd love to hear your opinions on: 1. Is there a better way to phrase the que…
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Biology EE
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Hi, I am a Nov 21 student and have a question about my EE RQ. I have choosen to do a biology EE, where I look at and measure : Concentration of glucose succeeding fermentation of the steeping liquid obtained through the soaking of common horse hard feeds. I would then compare to recommend daily intakes for horses and link it to the Equine Metabolic Syndrome. I am struggling to form a sufficient RQ and cant seem to get hold of my supervisor. I was thinks of: “To investigate the concentration of glucose succeeding fermentation of the steeping liquid obtained through the soaking of common horse hard feeds.” Is this not direct enough? Any advice would be a…
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Hi guys so i have to submit a proposal for my ib ee and i've decided to do it on psychology. A few questions that I've come up with are to what extent does having an eating disorder affect the social development and holistic development of a student? how has the new media treatment of skinny stars actually affected body perception of teenage girls? please let me know if these are good and if u have any more ideas
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Hi! I am a first year IB student writing my extended essay. I had some trouble deciding what topic I wanted to write about, however I think I might have one now. It is about the role of sleep on the consolidation of memories. I'm worried that it might be too broad, I might change it to the role of dreaming on memories, but I was researching and pretty much everywhere I looked it said that there isn't any strong enough explanation for why we dream. Now I'm just confused and I'm not sure what to do. I made a few research questions to try and see if I could lead me too something, but now i'm stuck and the deadline for the RQ is soon. To what extent does prolong…
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ok so I am slightly worrying right now because I have an idea for a bio ee but have no clue how to approach it. My idea is to determine the efficiency of different sanitization techniques, kind of like developing a bacteria culture and exposing it to some sanitizing agents like bleach to see the results, but i am clueless on how to phrase it and on what exactly I am supposed to be analyzing and comparing. Anyone have any ideas to help?
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Hello, so I have come up with my idea for an Extended Essay, and have gotten it approved. (Yay!) So after researching and coming up with the basic bulk of what I am going to do to research it, e.g. Methods of Experiments, Chemical and Equipment forms, the general gist of what I plan to do in the coming month for the practicals, I am left stumped as to exactly how to phrase my EE Question. I have given it some thought, but overall the question itself seems far too vague. It is (Currently): Which method of measuring the alcoholic content of alcoholic drinks would be the best, under a number of categories? Although I plan to introduce these categories in the introduction, sh…
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I'm just starting my EE and I've decided to do it in business. I am interested in analyzing the business side of fashion industry. Can you give me some advice? What are some examples of business EE topics? (possibly related to fashion) Thanks in advance!
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Hello everyone, I'm in my first year of my DP and I am taking Maths AA - HL. I would like to do my EE on Mathematics however I want to do Computer Science at University so I want my EE to be related to the area of Computer Science (The subject itself isn't taught at my school.) I thought about Cryptography but I'm not really sure about it, can somebody please give me other topic ideas of where I can begin? Thank you.
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Can a specific book be considered the local manifestation in an extended essay?
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I need to choose a topic for my EE and I have decided on Biology. However I am not sure about the criteria, is it mandatory to perform an experiment that is related to my research question?
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What would be considered primary data when doing a world studies extended essay using literature and psychology as the main focus subjects?
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Hey everybody, I was looking at the Film EE subject guide and while I thought that analyzing a couple films to write about cultural impact was interesting, I was wondering if the same technique could be applied to other artistic mediums, specifically video games. Analyzing several games and talking about their cultural significance in internet subcultures or just the wider artistic themes they represent is something that I would be passionate about, but unfortunately the IBO does not have video games as a subject area the same way they have film or visual arts. When I talked to my school's IB coordinator about this they recommended I take a look at the World studies …
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Please let me know if this question is good, and if it is scoring, " "Research Question - To what extent, Samsung’s positioning and promotional strategies accelerated the market share of the company?"
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To what extent was the failure of Schlieffen Plan a greater turning point compared to the Battle of Somme on the First World War? that is the best RQ that I have thought of so far, is it good and how can I improve it? I want my main topic to be about the Schlieffen Plan/ The failure of Schlieffen Plan in 1914
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how do I make an emerging question form a book analysis would how do themes in lord of the flies demonstrate real life problems be a good one because I actually have no clue
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If I don't have primary data can I still score high?
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Hi! I am in IBDP Y1 and we have to write our EE. I have chosen to write my EE in Psychology. I just want to know if my topic is good or not. I want to explore the concept of tyranny, going in depth about why people perform “evil” actions -- that is, why do people hurt others or take advantage of other people. Here, I will be comparing the banality of evil thesis by Hannah Arendt, which claims that ordinary people commit atrocities without awareness, care, or choice; with the theory that perpetrators act thoughtfully, creatively, and with conviction. They are influenced by groups and are transformed because of that. Is this a good topic to go ahead wi…
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Hey! I am currently a first year IB diploma student. I have decided that I will be doing an ESS EE based on Secondary data. My RQ is : To what extent is atlantic salmon aquaculture more sustainable than its commercial fishing in Norway? Do I need to further refine it? is it possible to do an EE based on this RQ? any resources which might help? Even the tiniest suggestion will be very appreciated - Thanks!
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i have just started with my extended essay and I am planning to process it on economics. But I found something i think should improve while we do the extended essay, I believe that we are the people who will run the upcoming world,so rather than writing our veiws on the current situation and repeating something that will actually be of no use and write about things we think should or will happen in future. Yes will will be controversial but thats what we need in our lives today. we need several topics and ideas so we come up with one of the best.just like i want to work on something related to the future of retail outlet (not petrol or diesel in particular) that even if…
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Hi everyone, Here I am writing to you because I am having such difficulties with getting a research question for my German B Higher. Infact, I am German, and I do German B Higher for the easy points but also my writing is improving. But thats not what I'm here for. I'm here to ask for help with making a research question for my Extended Essay for German B HIgher. http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,502271,00.html There is a link to what my research is based upon. My teacher is not a very good help, and when I create a question it is to high of a level for German B Maybe someone could give me some tips on how to create a good question for a B language …
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I've picked Biology as my EE research topic, I want to mainly focus in the areas of tissue engineering/biomedical engineering. I know if I do these topics, my question needs to emphasize the biological aspect of said topic, however, I am having a difficult time creating a research question. BME and tissue engineering is something I have a passion for, however I still am having difficulty, are there any resources out there that can help point me in the right direction? Or is there somewhere I can read a previous EE that also discussed these topics? Thank you for the help.
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Hi all, Im coming up with some research questions and two of them were related to; How good public transport connectedness with periphery towns has aided the city/greater municipal area, and How government plans and construction of more bike paths have aided (economy or environment) I think I still have to refine it to one specific factor, but is it even possible to gather primary data on these things? Help would be appreciated, Thanks
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EE in Mathematics - Chaos theory
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Hello, I was searching in the internet for some EE examples or ideas, and I found this nice forum, I hope I get some ideas in here. First of all I decided to produce my EE on Mathematics. This might surprise you but that means that I am the second student ever making an EE in mathematics in my school, no one wants to do it. I read the extended essay in mathematics that the other student produced, and it was about statistics, theme for which I hold no particular interest. I am in Higher Level mathematics, and was thinking to produce an extended essay on Chaos Theory, but I really cant think of an idea on how to approach it. It would be nice if I get some feedback from you…
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Hi! I’m currently searching for some topics for language B (in my case, English B HL) extended essay. And I thought I found my one: doing a cat.2 (probably) about the musical Hamilton, which is my favourite musical ever. For analysis, I though about songs Alexander Hamilton, My Shot and Who lives, Who Dies , Who Tells Your Story. As far as I’m concerned, the last song I mentioned is clean, but in Alexander Hamilton the words such as b*stard and w*ore are used, and in My Shot sh*t. Is there any rule that there can be no swearings in the language B extended essay? I seriously love the topic and the whole concept of censorship scares me. Please, I’d appreciate any help,…
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Hey, our school has advised us to do an EE in bio using secondary data because of the pandemic. So I just wanted to check if anyone has done or is doing a bio ee with secondary data, since I'd heard that secondary data EEs score less, so I just wanted to confirm...
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I'm looking for a topic to do my chemistry EE on and i want to do it on organic chemistry if possible. I wanted to do something using heat maybe, but im open for all your ideas, please help me
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I'm a year 1 IB student and we are discussing our EE topics. I have a lot of topics in mind, but I want to find which topic I can possibly do in mathematics that is connected to computer science or medicine. My school does not offer IB Computer Science so I can't exactly do a topic on computer science alone and I can't seem to find any topics tied to medicine that a 4000 word essay could be based off of. Are there any topic ideas that I could possible look at?
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Hi all , are there any good topics that I can take for the EE English B? Can you guys suggest me some of the topics that I could use?
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I was reading the EE guidelines for a paper in psychology and it indicated that i should not do my essay under the psychology field if i did not take psychology as a part of the Diploma Programme. My school does not offer psychology as a part of the Diploma Programme; however, i took AP psychology last year and did exceptionally well both in the course and on the test, so i am very familiar with psychology. Should I still do my essay in psychology then? And if so, any ideas on what topic/research question i should choose? i'm highly interested in intelligence, memory, learning, and development
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Hey, I´ve to hand in my extended essay subject choice form in two weeks and I thought I could write an extended essay in the category world studies. I don´t know anyone at my school that has done that, so I wanted to ask if there´s anyone who has written an essay in that category and maybe share their experience and tell me if they would recommend me to do that or not. I thought about taking the subjects English language and literature and History. I take English A HL, but not History. However, I had history at my old school for a few years and was quite good at it. The reason why I want to do my essay in world studies and with this subjects is because I want to wri…
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Hi all I am interested at exploring Singapore English ( singlish) for my ee for English b. Is this position and which category would it fit into and any ideas what exactly I could explore ? Many thanks
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Hi all I am interested at exploring Singapore English ( singlish) for my ee for English b. Is this position and which category would it fit into and any ideas what exactly I could explore ? Many thanks
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Psychology EE - Psychosocial treatments to improve wellbeing of patients receiving palliative care
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Hi guys! I've drafted my research question but I can't decide between which one I should go with. The topics are the same but just rephrased differently. Is it too broad? Can it be answered in 4,000 words? Should I only focus on one psychosocial intervention (I'm afraid that I will not have enough to write about if I just focus on one)? Should I do adults and elderly patients? Q1: How can brief and long-term psychosocial interventions focused one on one improve quality of life in mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in adult and elderly patients receiving palliative care? Q2: How can cognitive behaviour therapy and humanistic therapies improve quality of …
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Hi! I'm doing an Extended essay on English Language and Literature, focusing on Agatha Christie and her novel And Then There Were None. I'm especially fascinated by the subgenre in which this book falls into, the locked-room mystery/impossible crime. I want to look into how choices made within the story and choices made by Agatha as she wrote the book contributed to developing an impossible crime. (Eg. Character interactions/how they viewed one another, and literary devices Christie employed respectively. Hopefully this makes sense.) The research question I'm considering is: How is the locked-room mystery trope developed in Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were…
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I have already written my Economics EE on what factors have caused public transportation ridership to decline in the US in recent years . My Math IA is currently on whether population density affects the ridership of public transportation in the US. As you can see, it is not the same topic but it is very similar and I was wondering if I was allowed to use writing from my EE (my own) and incorporate it into my Math IA. Would it count as duplication? Anything helps so thank you in advance.
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I want to do my EE in History about the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Maybe look into the international response, or compare two responses (e.g. China's vs Britain's). I don't know how to formulate a RQ tho, and I'm also a bit lost regarding the analysis part - I don't think I have one yet. Possibly which response was more crucial..? Any help/ideas would be very much appreciated!!
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HI! Could anyone give me some advice on how to do a proper extended essay outline? How detailed has it got to be? Thank you
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basiclly i dont know what catagory it would land in and how to formulate a good question for it now i have an ee already written but i hate it so i want to do this the said abuse kpop idols face such as emotional physical etc.
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I'm doing Harry Potter for my EE and I somewhat ran out of ideas. Can any of you help me get more ideas please. I already have some ideas, but my supervisor said its not enough and I have to figure out more ideas to support my topic. Please help.... *begs*
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I have been researching topics for a while now and have come up with an idea that I like. My idea is to investigate the effect of the angle of attack of a frisbee on its trajectory/displacement. The topic would include investigating how lift is generated, how torque comes into play, the temperature and pressure of that air. I have seen a few extended essay exemplars and their topics seem much more complicated and advanced. Do you think my idea is suitable for an EE?
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I'm an 11th grade physics student and I'm intersted in finding a physics extended essay topic relating to astrophysics. The main issue I have encountered until now, is that either my topic faces an insane level of complication after looking into it or there is no proper research question. My Main ideas until now are: the concept of the skyhook, orbital phyics and/or centripetal force in space (idea of artficial gravity). This is vague but if anyone has any ideas that might help i would be very thankful,
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Hey guys! I'm new here as I started IB recently. I have to decide my EE question before November ends. I want to do something related to LGBTQ+ rights, as I am gay and it is a topic that I care very much about. My advisor told me that this topic, as it is human rights, fits well with my Global Politics course. The problem is that I don't have any ideas for me research question. Any recommendations/ideas????
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Hi, I'm struggling with choosing my IB extended essay topic between philosophy and english literature. I take the high level course for both subjects. I'm relatively more interested in both subjects, but I'm worried by the statistics found online that state that having an insufficient grade for a humanity subject extended essay is much more likely than doing an extended essay for literature. I'm looking for some advice or pros and cons of choosing each, but I am not interested in advice about choosing my topic of interest over another topic because that is the most common advice I have seen online, and isn't really helpful. Thanks!
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I am confused if this is the same, comparing and contrasting character analysis and development from two different books. The fiction books I will be using are Eragon and The Novice, and I will be going through the first book of the series. I was thinking that first, I would analyze how both characters are being developed through their obstacles and how they react to them. Then I would analyze different factors that are involved with these characters like their goals and influences and compare the who main characters of their respective stories. Any idea if this is a plausible EE?
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