IB History HL Internal Assessment Example

You present a clear, focused research question that is well bounded in time and scope.

You choose sources that are directly relevant to the question and explain why they matter.

You evaluate the memoir source with strong awareness of value, limitation, and later self-justification.

Your evaluation of the secondary source becomes slightly formulaic at points.

Some claims about reliability would be stronger if supported with more precise discussion of evidence and method rather than authorial authority alone.

Your investigation is clear, logically structured, and easy to follow from argument to conclusion.

You sustain a focused line of analysis about elite agency and use evidence from multiple relevant sources to support it.

You do evaluate an alternative explanation and reach a reasoned judgment that answers the research question directly.

At times the writing relies too heavily on quotation followed by explanation, rather than deeper comparison and interrogation of the evidence.

Some analytical claims would be stronger if you compared historians more directly and used more precise weighing of alternatives.

A few formulations are repetitive or slightly imprecise, which reduces the overall sharpness of the argument.