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Paste your research question below. You will get nine named checks on what a moderator can and cannot see in it. It takes about ten seconds and it does not cost anything.

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What this is not. This is a structure check, not a mark, and it is not a substitute for your teacher. It reads the sentence you typed and tells you what is missing from it. It cannot see your maths, your data or your reflection, and it will never write any part of your IA for you. Your teacher marks your work.

If you want a real pair of eyes on it

The checks above are mechanical. A written review is not: I read the draft the way a moderator will, against the criteria, and write back with the specific things to change first. Every guide on this site stays free either way.

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Why the aim is the thing worth fixing first

Almost every internal assessment that loses marks loses them before the mathematics starts. The aim is vague, or it is a yes-or-no question, or it never says which mathematics is coming. A moderator reading that has nothing to hold on to, and the marks for structure and reasoning are gone by page two while the maths underneath might be perfectly good.

It is also the cheapest thing to fix. Changing an aim takes a sentence. Changing it after twelve pages are written takes a weekend.

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These pages are free and stay free, but they are general and your IA is not. Send me your research question, or whatever exists so far, and I will tell you in writing whether the topic has a ceiling on it, where the marks are going, and what to change first. That costs nothing and it comes back within 24 hours.

Written by a serving IB Diploma and Career-related Programme Coordinator and Head of Mathematics, who reads internal assessments across every subject group every year. If you then want the whole draft reviewed properly against all five criteria, that is the paid one, and it is refunded if it does not name at least three specific things to fix.

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I never write any part of it. Not a sentence, not a calculation, not your data. Under 18: a parent buys this and the thread is with them. I do not work with students at my own school.