Arguments are clear, coherent, and effectively supported by specific examples. The implications of arguments are considered.
There is clear awareness and evaluation of different points of view.
Insightful
Convincing
Accomplished
Lucid
Pertinent
Relevant
Analytical
Organized
Acceptable
Mainstream
Adequate
Competent
Underdeveloped
Basic
Superficial
Limited
Ineffective
Descriptive
Incoherent
Formless
Refer to the offical IB guide P. 48 for more information
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The TOK essay prescribed titles for May 2024 are now available. Understanding these TOK essay prompts is essential for IB students aiming for a successful essay. This is why I’m writing this article with expert suggestions from our IB experts for you.
UPD… November 2024 TOK titles released !
I do not want to spend your precious time with a long introduction, so let me go straight to the point!
Here’s a breakdown of each title, offering insights and potential approaches.
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Now, let me break each TOK essay title for May 2024 in detail. I’ll also suggest several possible areas of knowledge, ways of knowing and applicable real-life examples to give you some inspiration for these prompts.
Let’s begin!
Examine the role of emotion and intuition WOKs in the arts, where personal interpretations often lead to diverse artistic expressions.
For instance, Picasso’s abstract art is open to multiple interpretations. Contrast this with history, where reason and language WOKs play a pivotal role in documenting events.
For example, while historians value primary sources for their objectivity, they often criticize biased accounts.
In mathematics, specialization might refer to mastering a specific theorem, while generalization involves understanding broader mathematical principles.
For instance, Pythagoras’ theorem is specialized, but its application in various real-life scenarios , like architecture, is a generalization. Contrast this with the natural sciences, where specialized knowledge might refer to niche research studies, while general knowledge encompasses broader scientific theories.
In human sciences, new psychological theories, for instance, undergo rigorous testing and peer reviews before acceptance. This slow adoption ensures reliability.
Contrast this with ethics, where new moral ideas, like those concerning AI’s rights, face resistance due to cultural and societal values, making their adoption slow.
In religious knowledge systems, scriptures taken out of their historical context can lead to misinterpretations.
For instance, ancient religious texts might not directly apply to modern ethical dilemmas.
Similarly, in the arts, a piece of art created in a specific cultural context might lose its original meaning when viewed in a different cultural setting.
In indigenous knowledge systems, elders often act as custodians, preserving traditions and stories for future generations. Their role ensures that knowledge is not lost over time.
In contrast, academic journals and institutions act as custodians in the natural sciences, ensuring that scientific knowledge is recorded, peer-reviewed, and accessible for future research.
In the natural sciences, newer research, such as recent findings on climate change, might be considered more accurate due to advanced technology and methodologies. However, it’s essential to consider the reliability and validity of these findings.
In history, newer historical evidence, like a recently discovered manuscript, might shed light on an event, but its authenticity and context must be verified.
Now let me share some samples written by our expert IB writers at Writing Metier.
Let’s start with the sample of the TOK essay on May 2024 prompt 2 – How can we reconcile the opposing demands for specialization and generalization in the production of knowledge?
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If you have missed it, I also have an article about prior TOK essay titles with suggestions and samples. Make sure to check them out as well!
The year 2023:
The year 2022:
Previous years’ prompts:
With a clear understanding of these TOK titles, IB students are well-prepared to select a topic and begin their essay.
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November 2023 tok essay prompts explained + samples.
This article is a complete guide to the November 2023 TOK essay prompts, which includes detailed explanations of each prompt along with samples to help students understand them better. It offers practical advice and expert guidance to help students improve their writing skills and succeed in this important assignment. Whether you need help selecting a topic or want to enhance your critical thinking skills, this article provides valuable insights that will help you craft a successful TOK essay.
Every year, students who started IBDP are waiting for IB to share the list of specific prescribed titles for Theory of Knowledge essays. Like in all the previous years, IB opened a list of six topics for TOK essays for the next semester.
In this article, we will be talking about the six Theory of knowledge essay topics students enrolled in the IB diploma need to be aware of. Just like every year, this TOK November’s topics vary in different elements, and in this article, we will share descriptions about each topic which the students need to keep in their minds when selecting the essay topic for their diplomas.
Given that the TOK essay's structure and the presentation are unlike others, students can find it challenging to proceed with it. You can only do well on the TOK presentation if you have an excellent idea.
Every year, students anxiously wait for the IB to announce the TOK essay topics. So this year is not an exception; IBO has also announced 2023 May titles for IB TOK essay. In this article, we have provided the list of prompts with short directions and suggestions for each topic. Enjoy reading ;)
The list of TOK exhibition prompts for the years 2023/2024. You can easily get through the TOK exhibition with the right understanding of how to work your way through it. All you need is to select the right TOK exhibition IA prompt and have the proper focus with determination to complete it.
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It's no secret that TikTok' s # BookTok community wields major influence on what books become bestsellers. And the TikTok Book Awards further established TikTok in the book space.
The awards, which are based in the UK and Ireland, are back for another year. Today, the social media company announced the shortlist for the 2024 TikTok Book Awards.
While there are still seven categories, they differ slightly from last year. TikTok divided Book of the Year into international, UK, and Ireland, replaced BookTok Author of the Year with BookTok Breakthrough Author, and introduced the BookTok Rising Star Creator and TikTok Shop Book of the Year.
Curated by a panel of judges including members of the UK literary community, TikTok creator Jack Edwards, and previous winner Eden Victoria, the awards aim to "celebrate and recognise the books, the independent book shops, the authors and the creators that have made the #BookTok community such a unique place," according to TikTok.
The BookTok community will decide all the winners — except for TikTok Shop Book of the Year, which is determined based on sales data and impact on the app. The in-app voting hub is open until July 14, and winners will be announced on July 25.
Last year's winners included Bolu Babalola's Honey and Spice, Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice .
Here's the official 2024 shortlist.
None Of This Is True, Lisa Jewell
Gwen & Art Are Not In Love , Lex Croucher
Small Worlds , Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Rachel Incident, Caroline O'Donoghue
Yellowface , R.F Kuang
Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
Sword Catcher, Cassandra Clare
Chain Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Ben Alderson
Martin Knights
Talia Hibbert
Claire Wright
@maisie_matilda
@zai_rambles
@cultofbooks
@literaryfling
@greendragonbooknooks
@fictionalfates
@booksonthebedside
Imaginarium Books
The Book Shop By The Sea
The Little Bookshop
House of Books & Friends
Topics Books TikTok
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I t is 70 years since AT&T ’s Bell Labs unveiled a new technology for turning sunlight into power. The phone company hoped it could replace the batteries that run equipment in out-of-the-way places. It also realised that powering devices with light alone showed how science could make the future seem wonderful; hence a press event at which sunshine kept a toy Ferris wheel spinning round and round.
Today solar power is long past the toy phase. Panels now occupy an area around half that of Wales, and this year they will provide the world with about 6% of its electricity—which is almost three times as much electrical energy as America consumed back in 1954. Yet this historic growth is only the second-most-remarkable thing about the rise of solar power. The most remarkable is that it is nowhere near over.
To call solar power’s rise exponential is not hyperbole, but a statement of fact. Installed solar capacity doubles roughly every three years, and so grows ten-fold each decade. Such sustained growth is seldom seen in anything that matters. That makes it hard for people to get their heads round what is going on. When it was a tenth of its current size ten years ago, solar power was still seen as marginal even by experts who knew how fast it had grown. The next ten-fold increase will be equivalent to multiplying the world’s entire fleet of nuclear reactors by eight in less than the time it typically takes to build just a single one of them.
Solar cells will in all likelihood be the single biggest source of electrical power on the planet by the mid 2030s. By the 2040s they may be the largest source not just of electricity but of all energy. On current trends, the all-in cost of the electricity they produce promises to be less than half as expensive as the cheapest available today. This will not stop climate change, but could slow it a lot faster. Much of the world—including Africa , where 600m people still cannot light their homes—will begin to feel energy-rich. That feeling will be a new and transformational one for humankind.
To grasp that this is not some environmentalist fever dream, consider solar economics. As the cumulative production of a manufactured good increases, costs go down. As costs go down, demand goes up. As demand goes up, production increases—and costs go down further. This cannot go on for ever; production, demand or both always become constrained. In earlier energy transitions—from wood to coal, coal to oil or oil to gas—the efficiency of extraction grew, but it was eventually offset by the cost of finding ever more fuel.
As our essay this week explains, solar power faces no such constraint. The resources needed to produce solar cells and plant them on solar farms are silicon-rich sand, sunny places and human ingenuity, all three of which are abundant. Making cells also takes energy, but solar power is fast making that abundant, too. As for demand, it is both huge and elastic—if you make electricity cheaper, people will find uses for it. The result is that, in contrast to earlier energy sources, solar power has routinely become cheaper and will continue to do so.
Other constraints do exist. Given people’s proclivity for living outside daylight hours, solar power needs to be complemented with storage and supplemented by other technologies. Heavy industry and aviation and freight have been hard to electrify. Fortunately, these problems may be solved as batteries and fuels created by electrolysis gradually become cheaper.
Another worry is that the vast majority of the world’s solar panels, and almost all the purified silicon from which they are made, come from China. Its solar industry is highly competitive, heavily subsidised and is outstripping current demand—quite an achievement given all the solar capacity China is installing within its own borders. This means that Chinese capacity is big enough to keep the expansion going for years to come, even if some of the companies involved go to the wall and some investment dries up.
In the long run, a world in which more energy is generated without the oil and gas that come from unstable or unfriendly parts of the world will be more dependable. Still, although the Chinese Communist Party cannot rig the price of sunlight as OPEC tries to rig that of oil, the fact that a vital industry resides in a single hostile country is worrying.
It is a concern that America feels keenly, which is why it has put tariffs on Chinese solar equipment. However, because almost all the demand for solar panels still lies in the future, the rest of the world will have plenty of scope to get into the market. America’s adoption of solar energy could be frustrated by a pro-fossil-fuel Trump presidency, but only temporarily and painfully. It could equally be enhanced if America released pent up demand, by making it easier to install panels on homes and to join the grid—the country has a terawatt of new solar capacity waiting to be connected. Carbon prices would help, just as they did in the switch from coal to gas in the European Union.
The aim should be for the virtuous circle of solar-power production to turn as fast as possible. That is because it offers the prize of cheaper energy. The benefits start with a boost to productivity. Anything that people use energy for today will cost less—and that includes pretty much everything. Then come the things cheap energy will make possible. People who could never afford to will start lighting their houses or driving a car. Cheap energy can purify water, and even desalinate it. It can drive the hungry machinery of artificial intelligence. It can make billions of homes and offices more bearable in summers that will, for decades to come, be getting hotter.
But it is the things that nobody has yet thought of that will be most consequential. In its radical abundance, cheaper energy will free the imagination, setting tiny Ferris wheels of the mind spinning with excitement and new possibilities.
This week marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The Sun rising to its highest point in the sky will in decades to come shine down on a world where nobody need go without the blessings of electricity and where the access to energy invigorates all those it touches. ■
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Find out the six prescribed titles for the TOK essay in the May 2024 session and watch a video analysis with tips and ideas. Learn how to write a strong TOK essay with Tim, an expert IB teacher and marker.
Learn how to approach the May 2024 TOK essay titles with clarity, creativity and critical thinking. Find out the key elements, AOKs, WOKs and RLSs for each title and get writing tips from an experienced IB advisor.
The titles for May 2024 are released! Here they are below: Make sure to bookmark this page as I explain and provide examples for each of these titles in depth! UPDATE: Title 1, 2, 5 and 6 are now available. Stay tuned for more! For general guidance on how to write a good TOK essay, check out my TOK Essay advice collection.
Click here to download sample conclusions for each TOK Essay Title from May 2024! Each page below will give you a downloadable guide for the Theory of Knowledge May 2024 titles that will get you started with strategy, research, and evidence! If you need more help with your TOK Essay, click here to get in touch with me and send me your essay!
Find out the six TOK essay prompts for May 2024 and learn how to write them with reference to different areas of knowledge, ways of knowing and real-life situations. Get expert guidance and examples for each title from an IB writer.
Further guidance on the TOK essay and exhibition can be found in the IB's Programme Resource Centre (PRC). Materials in the PRC are only available to existing IB World Schools. These materials are free. There are a number of resources on TOK in the IB Store, which are available to everyone. Find out how to become an IB World School.
This TOK Essay title from May 2024 is one of the easier ones. If you're struggling I would definitely choose this one or Title #3. Both of these essay prompts are specific, but don't require any sort of specialized knowledge or research. TOK Essay Title 2 is a huge challenge, and would be the opposite of this one.
There you have it, the rundown on the May 2024 TOK essay titles. Each title is a doorway to a deeper understanding of how we acquire and evaluate knowledge. Consult your teachers, discuss with peers, and give yourself enough time to think, write, and revise. Your unique perspective is what will make your essay stand out.
We have many resources designed to help you to write a great ToK Essay Nov 24. ToKToday resources have been used to great success by hundreds of students in the last 3 exam sessions, these resources have been updated specifically for the Nov 2024 titles, and in response to the latest ToK Examiners reports.
Explore the six essay topics for the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay in the May 2024 IB assessment. Learn how to apply TOK concepts and methods to various areas of knowledge and challenges.
TOK Essay Title #3. (May 2024) Nothing is more exciting than fresh ideas, so why are areas of knowledge often so slow to adopt them? Discuss with reference to the human sciences and one other area of knowledge. This may be the easiest TOK Essay Title that I've ever seen. I've created a guide below...but this Theory of Knowledge Essay Title is ...
Find the prescribed titles for the May 2024 TOK exams and see sample student essays with examiner comments. Learn how to score your TOK essay and exhibition against a ten point rubric.
r/IBO. r/IBO. This is the unofficial subreddit for all things concerning the International Baccalaureate, an academic credential accorded to secondary students from around the world after two vigorous years of study, culminating in challenging exams. This subreddit encourages questions, constructive feedback, and the sharing of knowledge and ...
Theory of knowledge (TOK) is assessed through an exhibition and a 1,600 word essay. It asks students to reflect on the nature of knowledge, and on how we know what we claim to know. TOK is part of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) core, and is mandatory for all students. Learn more about theory of knowledge.
November 2024 ToK Essay Title Guides. From 6000 to 8000+ words each, these comprehensive essay guides are designed to help you understand the key terms of the title as well as how to approach it using the different AOK's and other applicable TOK concepts such as the Knowledge Framework. Each AOK section includes a range of real life examples whilst also addressing the potential implications ...
Essay Guidelines - Word Count. The TOK Essay must be written in standard 12 type size and be double spaced. The maximum length of the essay is 1,600 words. Extended footnotes or appendices are not appropriate for the TOK essay. • any quotations. • any maps, charts, diagrams, annotated illustrations or tables.
What a strange TOK Essay Title! Every year, the International Baccalaureate chooses one weird (and often short) Theory of Knowledge Essay Title, and in May 2024 this is the one. I would also say that TOK Essay Title #2 from this year (May 2024) is another strange one I might consider avoiding. If you've watched my video, I had to learn what a ...
Easiest Theory of Knowledge Essay Title Ever! I got your notes, examples and outlines! Essay Title #3: Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts but unfa...
TOK ESSAY TITLE 1 MAY 2024 Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts but unfairly condemned in history? Discuss with reference to the arts and history. TOK ESSAY TITLE 1. TOK ESSAY TITLE 2 MAY 2024 How can we reconcile the opposing demands for specialization and generalization in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to ...
May 2024 TOK essay samples. Conclusion. Free topic suggestions. The TOK essay prescribed titles for May 2024 are now available. Understanding these TOK essay prompts is essential for IB students aiming for a successful essay. This is why I'm writing this article with expert suggestions from our IB experts for you. UPD….
Paragraph 1. - Say one or two interesting things about the prescribed title question. This shows us, right away that you know what the question is asking. - Define one or two of the key terms in the title. Get definitions for all of the main words in your title. You don't need to include all of them in your essay, but it's useful to see how ...
TOK Essay Title #2(May 2024) TOK Essay Title #2. (May 2024) How can we reconcile the opposing demands for specialization and generalization in the production of knowledge? Discuss with reference to mathematics and one other area of knowledge. This TOK Essay Title from May 2024 is one of the hardest I've ever seen.
TikTok's second annual Book Awards shortlist list is here — See which titles made the cut. ... Today, the social media company announced the shortlist for the 2024 TikTok Book Awards.
As our essay this week explains, solar power faces no such constraint. The resources needed to produce solar cells and plant them on solar farms are silicon-rich sand, sunny places and human ...
This TOK Essay Title is an interesting one. Unlike some of the other Theory of Knowledge Essay Titles from May 2024, this seems really focused and specialized. There is going to be some good evidence to choose from here, but you'll have to work hard to find it! Luckily, I made a guide to get you started!