Portafolio de Santiago Moral

The TOK Essay is one of the biggest assignments that any IB student will receive during their two-year visit and every student can confirm it. It's a massive essay that, for some reason, feels distinct and extremely different compared to the IA's and other works that you'll endure during the IB. Maybe it feels so different because you can only choose a question from a set of seven questions, compared to the liberty that the IA gives the student. This year was no exception, and I chose the questions " 'Statistics conceal as much as they reveal' Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge" (for the sake of the portfolio, I'll say that the Areas of Knowledge are a term that's greatly used in TOK.

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I'm unsure of why I chose this question, but I'm really glad that I chose this question. I like to study the human nature of the actions and decisions, so being capable of investigating lies and the sort was really interesting to me. However, that was the proposal of the idea. The planning of the essay itself was a much more harder undertaking. I had a variety of different Meets with Alfredo in which I discussed my plans on how to discuss how people lie and he would more often than not give me really useful links to investigate the topics that I was talking to him about. I must stress that, without Alfredo's help, I would've failed this essay and TOK in general.

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If I were to give an IB Learner characteristic to this part of the process, I would give it the Balanced part. This section I greatly remember because I balanced the ideas that Alfredo gave me in approaching the essay with the ideas that I already had. This was a massive balancing act and I'm proud that I could pull it off.