The Writ­ten Task

Over­seas Fam­ily School Grades (An Equiv­a­lent to IB Levels)

The grade bound­ary we use for your prac­tice (quar­terly) assessments.

IB ToK Grading

The for­mal IB Eco­nom­ics Level grad­ing guide­lines (fol­low­ing the most recent essay grad­ing) is as follows.

The Pre­sen­ta­tion

Over­seas Fam­ily School Grades (An Equiv­a­lent to IB Levels)

The grade bound­ary we use for your prac­tice (quar­terly) assessments.

IB ToK Grading

The for­mal IB ToK Level grad­ing guide­lines (fol­low­ing the most recent grad­ing) is as follows.

Your final TOK grade is deter­mined out of 60 points, out­putted to an A-E grade. The 60 points are com­posed of:

1. 40 point final essay (graded externally)

2. 20 point oral pre­sen­ta­tion (graded internally)

The out­putted A-E grade is used in con­junc­tion with the Extended Essay A-E grade towards diploma points in the man­ner shown in the link at right. Because these are the only two grades taken into con­sid­er­a­tion by the IB, it is rec­om­mended that stu­dents prac­tice essays and presentations.

Quar­ter and Semes­ter Grading

Gen­er­ally your suma­tive assign­ment (a pre­sen­ta­tion or a writ­ing piece) will be worth 60% and the remain­ing 40% will come from home­work and classwork.

How­ever In the first semes­ter of Year 11 (Quar­ter 1 and 2) we will weight your work slightly dif­fer­ently than in the rest of the two-year course. We will count your quar­terly suma­tive assign­ment for only 40% of the course. We do this, so that you get a chance to learn what is expected in these assign­ments, before they hurt your grades too much.

Rubrics

The TOK Essay rubric is below and here is a link to the TOK Pre­sen­ta­tion rubric.

The Guide­book

Most other infor­ma­tion you might want about the course is avail­able in the TOK Guide­book, which you can get to using this link.

The TOK Journal

This pro­vides you with an oppor­tu­nity for crit­i­cal reflec­tion out­side of the class­room, per­mit­ting you to iden­tify and analyse issues of knowl­edge in their per­sonal lives and, hence, to make “real world” con­nec­tions. With TOK being at the cen­tre of the IB hexa­gon, these “real world con­nec­tions” are exactly what the course is about: the real-life rel­e­vance and inter-connectivity of all our expe­ri­ences and learning.