International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Theory of Knowledge
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
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
- Theory of Knowledge — Subject brief · 2022 ↗
First assessment: 2022
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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