Exploration Grading

The exploration is internally assessed by the teacher and externally moderated by the IB using assessment criteria that relate to the objectives for mathematics SL. A student’s mark on the exploration will count for 20% of the final IB mathematics grade. The other 80% will come from Paper I and Paper II (which are actually exams; they call them papers in the IB program)

Each exploration is assessed against the following five criteria. The final mark for each exploration is the sum of the scores for each criterion. The maximum possible final mark is 20.