IB History HL Internal Assessment Exemplar: Dans quelle mesure la crise économique des années 1970 a été le facteur principal dans la montée du Front National en France?

Your research question is clearly framed and well suited to historical investigation.

You selected two relevant sources that work well together: one explanatory secondary source and one contemporaneous primary source.

You identified values and limitations for both sources and showed a basic understanding of origin, purpose, and content.

Your evaluation of limitations stays somewhat general in places, especially for the secondary source.

You could explain more precisely how each source’s context shapes what it emphasizes and what it leaves out.

The usefulness of the primary source could be discussed with more detail beyond its immediate relevance to the topic.

Your argument is clearly structured and easy to follow from beginning to end.

You develop a defensible line of argument by linking economic crisis to wider social and political conditions rather than treating the rise of the FN as a single-cause event.

You use evidence such as statistics, quotations, and electoral context to support your discussion.

You return to the question throughout, which keeps the investigation focused.

Some claims are still asserted more strongly than they are demonstrated with precise evidence.

A few ideas would be more convincing if you showed exactly how the economic crisis translated into support for the FN among specific groups.

Your comparison with alternative explanations is present but not developed deeply enough to fully prove why the economic factor mattered most.