IB Geography HL Internal Assessment Example

The student's inquiry is clearly geographical, focused, and testable, with a strong link to urban theory and a workable hypothesis structure.

The student identifies a specific fieldwork setting in Pune and shows that the transect could realistically be investigated through primary data collection.

The student's map gives a basic sense of the study area and route, including useful orientation details such as scale and direction.

The map needs fuller geographic conventions, including clearer labels, a legend, and more precise locational reference points.

One site reference is inconsistent, which weakens the precision of the study setting.

The spatial justification for the transect would be stronger if the student explained more clearly why the chosen spacing captures change across the city.

The student describes several relevant methods clearly, including repeated noise trials, systematic building sampling, surveys, photographs, and a transect-based approach.

The student's methods are closely aligned to the inquiry, with each technique chosen to help investigate urban stress, perceptions of place, or built-form change.

The student makes sensible attempts to improve comparability by standardising aspects of data collection such as measurement position and repeated readings.

Some methods would benefit from a fuller explanation of how participants or sites were selected so that representativeness is clearer.

A few techniques appear to produce only limited or unevenly reliable data, especially where sample sizes are small or readings are taken only once.

The suitability of some equipment and the logic behind certain measurement choices need a more explicit justification.