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May 2018 extended essay reports
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World Studies
Overall grade boundaries
Grade: E D C B A
Mark range: 0-6 7-13 14-20 21-26 27-34
The range and suitability of the work submitted
The range and suitability of the work submitted is very wide, and wider than single- subject
essays. At the top end of the mark range there are extraordinary essays which capture
interdisciplinarity, concurrency of learning, emerging global consciousness and elements of
the Learner Profile. The authors usually view the WSEE as an opportunity taken up wi th
enthusiasm. At the bottom end of the mark range are essays “dumped” into World Studies
because they do not fit elsewhere, where the supervision is derelict and no attention has been
paid to the complex configuration required. Sometimes they appear to be recycled reports
from other curricula, lacking entirely in IB learning.
Some topics seen often this year included sugar, obesity and nutrition, comparative treatment
of epidemics such as avian influenza, zika and Ebola, antibiotics and their misuse, femal e
genital mutilation, smoking and health, drug legalisation and contraception, and relationships
between inequality and gender, race, minorities, wealth and equity, and the outcomes for
inequality of development goals, trade policies, taxes, wars, genocides, slavery, microfinance,
refugees and migrants. Most of the work submitted was suitable for WSEE, and there was a
lovely range of subjects, ideas, issues studied - some incredibly thought -provoking and original
e.g. whether big game hunting in certain Afr ican countries could be more sustainable than banning
it altogether, whether nuclear fusion offers the most sustainable answer to the world's energy
crisis.
There were many other topics, some imaginative and some poorly conceived.
The majority of candidat es submitted work which was suitable for a World Studies EE, but a
substantial number failed to fulfil the requirements:
• The two subjects for an inter -disciplinary essay were either not mentioned or clarified
anywhere in the essay
• The topic chosen was not "contemporary" ("within the student's lifetime").
File information
Subject
World Studies
Document type
Subject report
Year
2018
Session
May 2018
Level
Not labelled in the archive
Paper
Not labelled
Examination zone
Not labelled in the archive
Language
English
File size
59 KB
Pages
5
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