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International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma

Theory of Knowledge

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Course units and learning goals

These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.

Core · Knowledge, evidence and exhibition planning
  • Distinguish a claim, supporting evidence and a reasoned conclusion.
  • Explain how a real object’s context contributes to a knowledge question.
  • Compare methods and evidence for particular scientific and historical questions.
  • Develop an argument by explaining a challenge and a qualified conclusion.
  • Evaluate historical explanations using source context and independent corroboration.
  • Limit claims about communities to the population and sampling method actually studied.
  • Explain how controls, instrument checks and uncertainty support a scientific inference.
  • Distinguish finite examples from a general mathematical proof and state its domain.
  • Justify an artistic interpretation using features, context and an explicit criterion.
  • Explain how translation, categories and modality can change the scope of a claim.
  • Trace digital provenance and distinguish a ranking signal from independent verification.
  • Reflect on a knower’s perspective, evidence limits and reasons for revising a judgement.

Preparing for this qualification

  • Use the official exhibition prompt list and the prescribed essay titles for your assessment session.
  • The authored introductory sequence covers all five areas of knowledge and the core theme.
  • Language and technology are the two optional themes selected for this website sequence; confirm the school’s chosen themes.
  • These introductory lessons are not the full TOK course.

Teaching coverage still needed

  • Deeper teaching and discussion across each area and the selected optional themes, full-guide assessment criteria and session-specific prescribed-title preparation remain incomplete.

Specifications and sample documents

Course materials

Course preparation

Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.

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