Philosophy Exemplars

About Philosophy Coursework Exemplars

The Coursework Exemplars section gives IB students (both SL and HL) access to real, high-quality samples of IB Philosophy Internal Assessments (IA) and Extended Essays (EE). Each exemplar is carefully selected to model top-scoring work, aligned with IB assessment rubrics and showcasing what examiners expect at different achievement levels.

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IB Philosophy Exemplars

About Philosophy Coursework Exemplars

To what extent does Rawls' original position provide a moral justification for redistributive taxation?

To what extent is Hannah Arendt's critique of the use of violence by social movements in the struggle for political and/or social change philosophically strong?

To what extent can science be utilised to provide a justifiable account of consciousness, without the process of philosophical enquiry?

Does preference utilitarianism provide the most appropriate utilitarian guidance regarding the public provision of alternative healthcare?

¿La ignorancia del alcance del determinismo digital es una nueva manifestación de la libertad estoica-spinoziana?

To what extent does St Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological argument withstand criticisms by atheists/agnostics?

¿En que medida tiene valor emancipatorio el concepto de placer en El Nacimiento del Placer de Carol Giligan?

To what extent is continuity of identity dependent on continuity of memory?

What can human beings expect from their involvement in society?

EL PROBLEMA DE LA VERDAD

To what extent is it ethical to kill another human being?

Do the participants in Squid Game have freedom of choice and are the organizers morally responsible?

Can AI-generated images be considered art and possess aesthetic value?

To what extent is the urge for domination part of human nature?