TOK Presentation Guide
The first thing you need to know, is that the presentation is 1/3rd of your final TOK grade. If you mess it up, don’t worry, your essay grade will be more important.
To do well on the TOK presentation, we need to look at the rubric. To get full marks, this is what the IB wants:
Your knowledge question (KQ) has to be about knowledge, not about your real life situation (RLS). A good way to make sure that your KQ is about knowledge is including a WOK in it, and also the word knowledge. One example would be “How is intuition involved in creating trustworthy knowledge?” This question is general and could be applied to basically any situation. That’s what you’re aiming for with your KQ.
In order to clearly link your KQ and RLS, you should not to mention your KQ before your RLS. Present your RLS, and then state questions (not knowledge questions) that you thought of when you first heard of the RLS. Then from those questions, you should explain the thoughts you had which lead you to the KQ.
To have convincing arguments from different perspectives, you should have at least two claims and two counterclaims. You should have the same number of claims and counterclaims, because otherwise you’re not investigating things from differing perspectives. Since you’re answering a question about knowledge, and not a question about your RLS, you shouldn’t be using your RLS as evidence to support your claims, however you should mention your RLS again when you answer the KQ in the conclusion. To answer your claims, it’s a good idea to mention at least two AOKs, preferably two contrasting ones. By that I mean, based on my example KQ, use an AOK which heavily uses intuition, and one which barely does.
To show how the outcomes of your analysis are relevant to your RLS and to others, you basically just need to mention your RLS in the conclusion. In your claims, you should use at least one other RLS to support a claim. That way in your conclusion, you can also show how your analysis is relevant to that RLS too. Finding another RLS to relate to your KQ is a bit more difficult, but honestly if your KQ really is about knowledge, almost any situation could apply in some way.
Remember, the IB is all about how well you can bullshit, so even if it doesn’t make sense to you, if you have some sort of explanation for things, you won’t do to badly.
