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On this page, you can find some helpful resources for the extended essay process.
to learn more about the IB ethical guidelines.
to learn more about the IB science experiment guidelines
to find a student-checklist that helps you to determine if your EE is ready for submission
Advisor Meeting Instructions
Your advisor helps you with any questions you have regarding the content and method of your research project. You will have to meet with your advisor for mandatory check-in meetings. If you want to, you can meet with them more frequently. Check the calendar to find out when you need to schedule a meeting with your advisor. For the mandatory check-in meetings, meeting instructions are provided here:
Check-in #1: Topic Ideas and How to Narrow Them (early November Junior Year)
Check-in #2: Research Question Ideas (late November Junior Year)
Check-in #3: Research Proposal Critique and RPPF #1 (January Junior Year)
Check-in #4: Research Organizer and Research Appraoch (February Junior Year)
Check-in #5: Outline Review (April Junior Year)
Check-in #6: Draft Critique and RPPF #2 (August Senior Year)
Check-in #7: Content check-off (October Senior Year)
Study and Research Skills
In order to succesfully complete your extended essay, you will need to develop many important study and research skills. You should already be familiar with some of these skills from the MYP, but others might be new to you. Watch the tutorials that the class of 2025 produced to learn about some of the necessary skills.
Staying Focused
Organization
Time Management
The Research Process
Finding Good Sources
Annotating & Taking Notes
Structure of a Journal Article
Evaluating Sources
Citing Sources
Synthesizing Sources
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