Extended Essay Subject Choice

Lang A1, History and the Sciences are among the most popular

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~Lc~

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Language B, Arabic advantages:
1. No Plagerism machine, not that I plagerised :p:

b. High probability of getting an A
3. You chose what ever you want, as long as it concerns your area...
I like my EE just wish it wasn't in arabic :p:

if it weren't for my english=arabic dictionary I wouldn't have 200 words :p:

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OP

~Lc~

Language B, Arabic advantages:
1. No Plagerism machine, not that I plagerised :p:

b. High probability of getting an A
3. You chose what ever you want, as long as it concerns your area...
I like my EE just wish it wasn't in arabic :p:

if it weren't for my english=arabic dictionary I wouldn't have 200 words :p:

i thought of doing the same, but my arabic teacher said it was a bad idea ( probably cause she doesent want to do the supervising. i ended up doing chemistry.

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AliceInWonderland

My EE is in bio, and know I see what a big mistake it was to do in Bio, because to find information about it, is not easy at all... grr... but soon I have to start with my experiments :smile:

yey! (trying to motivate myself)

Reply 5

Forester

if you do your EE in language B, does the whole essay have to be in that language? What would you write about?

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yep your EE has to be entirely in that language. as for what you're supposed to write about, er - Lc, care to answer?

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OP

elvito

if you do your EE in language B, does the whole essay have to be in that language? What would you write about?

I think you can choose a topic from these for group 2:

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Culture and society: eg. French: Nuclear energy and national bias in the French press.

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Language analysis: eg. Japanese: The use of language in NÐ theatre.

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Litrature: eg. Arabic: The imagery of city streets in Naguib Mahfouz’s trilogy

but since your doing language B, Litrature would be out of the question, and Language analysis is difficult. So i would consider doing culture and society because you can choose any topic you like as long its related to society (extremely eazy).
Good Luck

Reply 8

IBblonde

Yeah I was going to do language B because of this conversation:

My IB coordinator: No one at this school has of yet done an extended essay in their language B
Me: But its possible, right?
IBC: It is a very, very bad idea.

Fortunately my love of being the first to do stuff was outweighed by my love of not dying while writing my extended essay. I stuck to English A1.

Reply 9

Bandev

We are not allowed to do our EE in language B. Partly because no one is good enough and all the language teachers are lazy. I don't think anyone would have though.

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OP

IBblonde

Yeah I was going to do language B because of this conversation:

My IB coordinator: No one at this school has of yet done an extended essay in their language B
Me: But its possible, right?
IBC: It is a very, very bad idea.

Fortunately my love of being the first to do stuff was outweighed by my love of not dying while writing my extended essay. I stuck to English A1.

Same here,,, i was discouriged by IBC and Language teacher, but going through it all, i would have insisted more on doing it.
If really really want to do it in Language B, and you think ur good enough, than dont let anybody trick u in doing something u dont like.

During the course of IB u'll be told some inaccurate things by teachers and IBC. Always check the thing ur self or ask TSR if you're not sure.
What are respected members for :wink:

Reply 11

technically its not impossible to do Lang B EE if you do English B or something, and your first language for A1. You should be good enough in Eng to do an EE in Eng B if you're taking the full diploma.

Reply 12

Forester

im trilingual. so its possible. however if its uncommon, then i cant really compare with other people and see if my EE was as good as theirs....

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~Lc~

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Deepnight

i thought of doing the same, but my arabic teacher said it was a bad idea ( probably cause she doesent want to do the supervising. i ended up doing chemistry.

oooo another Arabic B HL student :biggrin:

hello hehe...
I was doing English A1, but I kept fighting eith my teacher so I swithed to arabic B... it's very easy! I think your teacher gave you bad advice! hehe

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OP

~Lc~

oooo another Arabic B HL student :biggrin:

hello hehe...
I was doing English A1, but I kept fighting eith my teacher so I swithed to arabic B... it's very easy! I think your teacher gave you bad advice! hehe

I think she was scared, because she had never supervised an EE before, but who needs a supervisor when your doing arabic B.

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~Lc~

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so true hehe... you should've gone for it anway.. but too late now :p:

don't look back hehe... hope you do well in your chem..
out of curiousity do you live in an arabic country?

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~Lc~

so I swithed to arabic B... it's very easy! I think your teacher gave you bad advice! hehe

hmm...here I was under the impression you were having trouble getting out anothe 1000 words for your EE :rolleyes:

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OP

~Lc~

so true hehe... you should've gone for it anway.. but too late now :p:

don't look back hehe... hope you do well in your chem..
out of curiousity do you live in an arabic country?

well, i already finished about a month ago, im doubt i'll be able to get a good grade... it wasnt easy, though i was able to use it in my personal statement and learned a couple of things on the way, which im sure i wouldnt be able to do if i did arabic.... i just dont like to be decieved :mad:

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I live in the saudi arabia.

Reply 18

IBblonde

Lol I actually think the advice I was given was fairly good. Especially cause my french topic was going to be TinTin-related, my references would have been non-existant (nothing available in the original language) and... oh yeah! Ive forgotten a lot of french, and would have to master about five tenses that the french probably only made up to be used in extended essays. Im incredibly incredibly glad I stuck to group one... though Matthew Arnold is proving challenging enough.

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