Internal+Assessment

As an IB student you will need to carry out some hours of practical work (60 hours HL, 40 hours SL, including 10 hours for an experimental sciences project which both levels must complete). The practical work will be assessed using the criteria listed below. This is written as a guide to help you understand how to meet the assessment criteria in IB Chemistry.

=Authenticity= You will be asked to sign a form at the end of the course that will be submitted to the IB in which you will declare that the work you have carried out is all your own work. [|Plagiarism] is something which can lead to disqualification from the entire diploma and care must be taken that it is not done accidentally. A rule of thumb is **if you didn't write it, you should give credit to the person(s) that did**.

=Safety=

You will be judged partly on whether you have carried out your experiments in a safe manner and you should include reference to this in your submitted work. This should also include ethical considerations. The IB has published a guide to assist in what is considered ethical with reference to experimentation on living things and what is not.

=Choosing a topic=

Depending on the practical work being carried out you might be given plenty of guidance in what you should do, or you might have to generate a research project within a more general subject area.

=How the work will be graded=

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