IB History HL Internal Assessment Example

You state a focused and historically appropriate research question with a clear timeframe and topic.

You select two relevant academic sources and explain why each one matters to your inquiry.

You evaluate both sources with discussion of origin, purpose, content, value, and limitations.

Your research question could be narrower by defining some of the broad terms more precisely.

Some limitations are still fairly general and would be stronger with specific evidence examples.

The source evaluation would be improved by showing more clearly how each source’s evidence supports or restricts your exact question.

Your investigation is generally clear, logically sequenced, and easy to follow.

You make a sustained analytical argument about how ideology was used to legitimize imperial expansion.

You support your discussion with evidence from a range of sources and use the Manchukuo case effectively to show the contrast between rhetoric and reality.

You show awareness of different perspectives by contrasting Japanese claims of unity with the experience of domination and assimilation.

At points the writing becomes repetitive, with the same central idea restated rather than developed further.

Some claims would be stronger with more precise evidence and tighter connection to specific policies, speeches, or texts.

The postwar material sits somewhat outside the main time frame and needs a clearer explanation of why it is essential to the argument.