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  • 10 May 2024
    David Faure
    The new Investigation for 2025
    Dear Sophia, The IB documents give guidance that the whole IA should be completed in approximately 10 hours of lab time.  With this in mind then about 3 hours of lab time would be appropriate for collecting data.  This guidance is...
  • 9 May 2024
    Radka Zarkov
    The new Investigation for 2025
    Dear Richard,Just to confirm:) Is it fine if the student's IA report is based only on collected data from a simulation?Thank you, Radka
  • 8 May 2024
    Barbara Rexmann
    The new Investigation for 2025
    Dear Richard,one of my students would like to create a digital simulation himself to investigate the spreading of a virus.I told him, that the work creating the simulation would not be assessed just the biological part of using it. Is that...
  • 8 May 2024
    Richard Scarr
    The Investigation
    BarbaraThis sounds like a great idea but risky in terms of assessment as the work seems to be the creation of a simulation rather than using one. However, if it is sufficiently open ended (i.e. with sufficient variables to manipulate) he could...