International Baccalaureate (IB) is a challenging and dynamic program to start that has various components in the assessment scheme.
One important aspect that troubles students is Internal Assessment (IA). To help with that IB Physics SL tutors provide the step-by-step video guide to help students save time and achieve the grade they want on their Physics IA.
Internal Assessment can be a paper, project, oral exam, workbook, or series of experiments depending on the subject.
About Physics IA
IB Physics Internal Assessment is done by the medium of laboratory work based investigative projects – where you’ve to choose a research question and bring an extensive investigative report on the IA Physics topic you choose.
You’ve to choose the IA Physics topic at the beginning of the academic session and then have to submit the final report by the end of the session.
Marking of Physics IA
IB uses extensive criteria of various factors for marking, having different weightages:
Personal Engagement (8%)
Exploration (25%)
Analysis (25%)
Evaluation (25%)
Communication (17%)
When you’ll go through the sample IA files from previous years, you’ll understand the evaluation of weightages in marking.
Points to remember for IB Physics Internal Assessment:
Plagiarism is non-negotiable. If caught, your diploma could be withheld.
Credit the original work and IB honors, i.e., include the citations and references you used in the project.
Research questions don’t carry any marks but are the most important aspect of your project.
Present data and information by explaining everything – from terms to derivations.
Add statistically proven data and not according to your convenience.
Explain everything in the conclusion from derivations.
Miscellaneous
After an internal examiner marks all the projects, a sample of those IA files is sent to an external moderator.
External moderators will mark the file according to IB standards if they’re off the standards.
As mentioned above, IB Physics HL tutors provide an IA guide to students that mentions everything from start to finish that goes through all key points and details of how to write a high-scoring Physics IA.
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