{"id":5997,"date":"2026-05-05T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:50:17","slug":"the-ibdp-extended-essay-new-support-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-ibdp-extended-essay-new-support-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The IBDP Extended Essay: New Support Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/ibdp\/EE\/index.php\">The Extended Essay in History: First exams: 2027<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The extended essay is a formal piece of academic writing containing no more than 4,000 words, accompanied by a reflective statement of no more than 500 words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is supervised by your History teacher, but marked by the IB board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gives you a chance to study in real depth a topic that you have an interest in and to work closely with your History teacher to \u2018fast-track\u2019 your historical skills with one-to-one tutoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such it is a great opportunity to produce a mature academic study on something that you might never again have the chance to research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Extended Essay in History: First exams: 2027 The extended essay is a formal piece of academic writing containing no more than 4,000 words, accompanied by a reflective statement of no more than 500 words. It is supervised by your History teacher, but marked by the IB board. It gives you a chance to study&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-ibdp-extended-essay-new-support-guide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1yJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}