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    How To Write IB Extended Essay? Tips From A Top-Scoring Student

    Why I Chose This Topic

    I remember one of the biggest reasons why I didn't execute on those ideas was because they didn't necessarily make an easy extended essay to write. I found that this topic was relatively easy because I could see a very easy way to measure it, I could see a very easy way to write up on it, and because of that, it was more likely that I could have gone in a high mark.

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    Why I Did Not Do Well Initially

    I got a C or a D on my extended essay. Now there's a few reasons why that happened, and I'm going to get into exactly why in the paper itself, but from that point moving forward, it basically gave me the pick I needed to refocus my efforts, rework this essay and ultimately turn it into something that ended up finally getting me an A.

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    The Importance of the Rubric

    The IB and the SAT, as well as the act, are all standardized tests, meaning that they're trying to make it as objective as possible, they're trying to remove any form of personal judgment or opinion, and then see the work as it actually is. Is it perfect? Probably not, but it gets relatively close, at least much closer than a teacher at a non-IB school without a standardized process would get.

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    Understanding Research Question

    if they don't know your research question if the leader does not understand what this is like if they can't if this doesn't make sense though you're screwed okay you're absolutely screwed because how do you expect them

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    Fundamental Concepts

    the way I look at fundamental and basic the way I look at it is that it simply has a high probability of occurring right if I learn fundamental skills in swimming if I learn a fundamental swim

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    Importance of Simplification

    this isn't like the most complicated thing I could have done there's definitely more complicated things but you don't need to make your extended essay extraordinarily confidence similar to your IA

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    Removing Unrelated Content

    I ended up removing it so because of that I ended up removing it because it didn't correspond at all and this is something I originally had in the first one and it just made me look smart like oh look I have this equation with a cosine how smart I just don't do that convolutely the entire thing made absolutely no sense

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    Independent Variable

    the what's it called the independent the independent variable so the expansion ratio

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    Summary and Final Thoughts

    don't have it long story short and then these extra points of evaluation I likely would have added this but I just ran out of space or words more specifically

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