Malpractice

The IBO defines malpractice as the attempt by a candidate to gain an unfair advantage in any assessment component.  

Collusion is when a candidate knowingly allows his or her work to be submitted for assessment by another candidate.

Don’t let someone copy your work.

Plagiarism is the submission for assessment of the unacknowledged work, thoughts or ideas of another person as the candidate’s own.

Don’t download a paper from the web and copy and paste it into a Word document and try to pass it off as your own. Or, even innocently, don’t copy or paraphrase a sentence or two, or an idea or two, from a book or magazine or website and put it into your paper without citing its origin.

In order to avoid charges of plagiarism, candidates must always ensure that they acknowledge fully and in detail the words and/or ideas of another person.  

No double dipping - The same piece of work, or two versions of the same work, cannot be submitted to meet the requirements of both the extended essay and another assessment component of any subject. 

You can’t turn in a modified version of your World Lit paper as your extended essay.

For more details, refer to the IBO document Academic Honesty.

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For more information, please contact Peter Heimer, OIS IB Coordinator

(072-727-5290, pheimer@senri.ed.jp), or visit the IBDP office, room 324 (third floor, next to tennis court), or visit the IBO public website at www.ibo.org.