TOK Essay Introduction

What is the full form of AOK?

• Account of Knowledge

• Area of Knowledge

What is the percentage division between the exhibition and the essay?

• 33-67

• 25-75

• 30-70

• 50-50

When are the essay prompts released?

• Last week of August

• First week of September

• Last week of September

• Prompts are in the TOK guide

How many words is the TOK essay?

• 1500

• 1600

• 1700

Which of these is not an AOK?

• Science & Technology

• Human Sciences

• Art

• Mathematics

Which AOK does this question adhere to?

Have technological developments enabled us to observe the past more

directly?

• Arts

• Human Sciences

• History

If two competing paradigms give different explanations of a phenomenon, how

can we decide which explanation to accept?

Which AOK does this apply to?

• History

• Natural Sciences

• Art

• All the AOKs

Do you need a contradictory point of view in your essay

• Yes, it can show different dimensions of the argument

• No, it is deviation from the prompt and can confuse the examiner

Implications are important in TOK. What do they mean?

• Connection

• Inference

• Explanation

Can moral disagreements be resolved with reference to empirical

evidence? What does the word empirical mean?

• based on a theory

• Something that can be observed

• something which will definitely give a result