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To answer your question, you definitely could!
It’s that time of the year where you are possibly stressing about your IA’s. Do you have it all under control? Are you ahead of your deadlines? Is everything going per plan or are you struggling to write down everything? If you are hesitant with your answers, you might want to consider getting a tutor to help you with your IA’s. If you have assistance with your IA(s) with the help of our tutors, you might be able to manage time better and have your eyes set on studying for the exams and completing the internal assessments simultaneously.
This is one of the most common problems that almost every student faces at the beginning of Year 1 or even Year 2. Obviously you want your IA to be extraordinary. To do that, you will need to talk to someone who knows the entire process in and out: the guidelines, rubrics, structure of the IA, scope for exploration and practically everything.
You may not be able to decide on an interesting topic to pursue for your IA. Our teachers can help you with that too. They will ask you questions to nudge you in the right direction that will make you realize where your interest lies. Be sure to pick a topic that you’re curious towards because you’d be more invested in the research that way.
However, you also cannot expect your teacher/tutor to have everything wrapped around their finger. The IA Tutors might need to get a few things clarified or they might have to research more about a topic to help get you an idea. Nevertheless, they do it. Also keep in mind that they only instill the thinking process for you to get the research question – they cannot formulate it themselves for you.
It is not the best situation when your experiment fails. Trust me, it is not easy to figure out which tiny part of the experiment is causing it to fail. It is very unfortunate to see your analysis results completely opposite to what you expected.
Now, you did the experiment once and the results are inaccurate or wrong. The next step you do is to figure out where the problem is. Looking at the same experiment multiple times – you’ll just want to see the things that you want and eventually you tend to miss out on problems or mistakes. Therefore, having a new set of experienced eyes, a tutor, is always better and our IA tutors will help you through this. They question every part of your experiment to thoroughly understand why everything is done in a specific manner.
I wish I had one when the EE and IA experiment was failing. It took me a great deal of stress to figure out why I got the results I did. Both were physics experiments so my problems were mostly associated with the model itself. Sometimes, it was the calculation part too. Again, I hope I had a tutor to take a look at it all – I would’ve finished much earlier.
You’re done with your experiment, You’re done with obtaining your results. Now what? You have to simply write the 12 page document. Writing this document has a set of its own problems. Communication. Language. Flow. Word limit. This is only the surface.
For this, you will need someone who’s seen at least 20-30 IA’s. Our IA tutors know it in and out and all around it. They will know what the IB expects from you in terms of quality. Now, they can’t write it for you but they can certainly help you as much as they can by going through all of the 10 drafts that you may happen to write. Come on, no one can finalize their entire IA in the first draft. Again, you need a new set of eyes reading the document perhaps to find out the possible grammatical errors or factual information. The feedback you get during your draft phase is invaluable because everything little matters to put together your document.
At the end of the day, it is your IA. We cannot force you to rewrite it or change it. We can only give you suggestions and essentially it is up to you to move forward with it or otherwise. It might hit you, you know, my friends and family are enough to review it. But do they really know what an IA is about and how it is to be communicated? Possibly not. Having a tutor help you from the beginning will save you time and double work.
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