IB History SL Internal Assessment Example

You stated a focused, historically valid question that invited analysis rather than description.

You selected two highly relevant scholarly sources and explained why each was useful for your inquiry.

Your evaluation of the sources went beyond summary and considered value and limitation through origin, content, and perspective.

Some of your source evaluation became a little formulaic and could have been more sharply tied to the specific wording of your question.

Your discussion of purpose and publication context was less developed than your discussion of origin and content.

A few limitations were identified correctly, but they needed more precise explanation of how they affected your judgment about T4 as a turning point.

Your essay is generally clear and logically structured, with a strong line of argument running through the investigation.

You use a range of historians and specific examples to support your claims, which gives the analysis real substance.

You do not simply narrate events; you try to weigh continuity, causation, and competing explanations before reaching a conclusion.

Your conclusion remains consistent with the evidence and directly answers the question.

Some of your most important causal claims are stronger than the evidence fully proves, especially where you move from correlation to direct historical causation.

Your treatment of contrasting interpretations is often more descriptive than deeply critical.

You rely more on historians’ interpretations than on close use of primary material, which limits the depth of the analysis in places.

A few interpretive claims, especially about psychological and moral effects, need tighter evidential support.