IB History HL Internal Assessment Example

Your research question is sharply focused and evaluative, which gives the whole investigation a clear historical direction.

You selected two highly relevant sources that work well together because they let you compare a contemporary German perspective with a modern historical synthesis.

Your source evaluation goes beyond description by explaining origin, purpose, content, value, and limitation for both sources.

At times, the limitations could be linked more explicitly to reliability and usefulness for the exact question you are investigating.

The evaluation of the modern source would be stronger if you framed the limitation in more specific methodological terms rather than in general language.

Some of your judgements would benefit from a little more precision about how each source can and cannot support claims about significance.

Your investigation is generally well structured and easy to follow, with a clear line of argument running through the essay.

You move beyond narrative by weighing several causes of Allied victory rather than treating U.S. entry as automatically decisive.

You make effective use of a range of historians and evidence to support a balanced final judgement.

Some paragraphs rely on brief labels of historians’ views rather than sustained testing of those views against evidence.

A few factual claims and statistics need fuller explanation and tighter sourcing so the reader can see exactly how they support your argument.

There is some repetition in the way points are introduced and then qualified, which slightly reduces the sharpness of the analysis.