What is the report?

The report is a critical part of the Personal Project, providing a detailed account of your entire journey.

It documents your planning, research, development, and reflection, offering insights into the skills and knowledge you’ve gained.

The report demonstrates how you approached challenges, managed your time, and achieved your goals, serving as a comprehensive summary of your work from start to finish.

It will also be what you submit in the end.

It should be presented in identifiable sections following the MYP personal project objectives:

Planning Applying skills Reflecting

Report Format choices:

Written Document

Written document with recording

The format of the report can vary depending on the resources available and your interests. You should take into consideration your learning preferences, personal strengths and available resources when deciding on the best format for your report. The report is the place where you bring together and summarize your thinking process and creation that helped you to complete your project.

You need to think about how you will format your project early on in the process and build the report into the whole time frame. You can start drafting the report at any stage or begin when you have completed the product, however make sure you plan in enough time to produce the report.

Please note that the examples below showing supporting evidence are offered as suggestions only. You are encouraged to gather a variety of evidence throughout the development of your project so that you can select the evidence that best supports the claims that you make in the report.

Examples of supporting evidence could include:

a list and/or diagram of interests and related learning goals
a list of possible strategies to achieve personal and academic goals
a diagram showing the connections between the learning goal and the product
a series of steps leading to the completion of the product

Examples of supporting evidence could include:

a series of inquiry questions (research skills)
sample correspondence with the project supervisor (communication skills)
screenshot of daily reminders or alerts to complete personal project tasks (self-management)
reflection about resolving a conflict (social skills)
summary of prior learning that is relevant to the project (thinking skills).

Examples of supporting evidence could include:

evaluation of the product against the success criteria
images showing key features of the product
analysis of the causes for success and/or failure
summary of new knowledge or insights related to the learning goal.

Organisation

The information you include in the report is organised into specific sections, whichever format you choose. The report doesn’t replace the product of your project, so think about how you personally will communicate the information you want to in the best way for you.

You will need to plan and organise the information. Your Process evidence will be extremely important at this point as it will contain all the information you need to complete the report, if you have used it consistently.

Language report is written in.

A new feature to the 2021 guide is that you may be able to report your personal project in your preferred language, as long as:

there is a staff member who is fluent in the same language and who can supervise you
KAUST can meaningfully internally standardise your report by having other staff members also fluent to help grade your report. (Speak to your MYP coordinator first).

Can anyone help me edit my project report?

The project report should be as error-free as possible so you must seek other people to edit your drafts. You can approach family, friends and teachers for assistance with grammar, punctuation and spelling matters. However, while they can help you with editing, they cannot WRITE the written statement for you. It must ultimately be your own work.

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