Exemplar TOK essays

Essay 1“Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house” (Henri Poincaré). Discuss in relation to science and at least one other area of knowledge.
Essay 2
“History is always on the move, slowly eroding today’s orthodoxy and making space for yesterday’s heresy.” Discuss the extent to which this claim applies to history and at least one other area of knowledge.
Essay 3 (different student)“History is always on the move, slowly eroding today’s orthodoxy and making space for yesterday’s heresy.” Discuss the extent to which this claim applies to history and at least one other area of knowledge.
Essay 4Does language play roles of equal importance in different areas of knowledge?
Essay 5
In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?

Essay 6 (Different student)
In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?


Exemplar Essays