The reason many students choose to pay someone to write their Extended Essay is simple. It’s one of the most demanding projects in the Diploma Programme. The IB expects about 40 hours of work from you: a focused research question, research methods that suit your subject, a careful analysis of evidence and a reasoned conclusion, all within 4,000 words.
We’ve been helping IB students with Extended Essays, as well as Internal Assessments (IA), Theory of Knowledge (TOK) essays and exhibitions, for many years. As an IB essay writing service, we know how hard it is to keep an EE moving while every other subject asks for your time too.
What an Extended Essay Is, and What It Is Not
The Extended Essay is part of the DP core, alongside Theory of Knowledge and CAS. It is independent research on a topic of your own, guided by a supervisor at your school and written within 4,000 words. Examiners do not read beyond that limit.
The research question has to be a real question, not a statement or a hypothesis. The IB suggests framing it with “how”, “why” or “to what extent”, and it must be narrow enough to answer properly in the space you have.
It also helps to know what an EE is not:
- Not an ordinary school essay. A class essay usually answers a question someone else set. An EE starts from your own question and shows how you researched it.
- Not a TOK essay. A TOK essay answers one of six prescribed titles in up to 1,600 words. An EE investigates a topic through one or two DP subjects.
- Not an Internal Assessment. An IA is coursework inside one subject, marked by your teacher and moderated by the IB. If that is what you need, our IB IA writing service works to your subject’s IA criteria.
IB examiners mark the EE and give it a grade from A to E, not the 1 to 7 of your subjects. Together with your TOK grade, it can add up to three points to your diploma total, and you need at least a D in the EE to be awarded the diploma.
What Changes from the May 2027 Session
The new guide keeps the core of the EE, independent research within 4,000 words, and changes how it is organized and marked:
- Two pathways. A subject-focused essay stays within one DP subject. An interdisciplinary essay combines two DP subjects around one research question and is registered under one of five frameworks, such as “Evidence, measurement, innovation”. It takes the place of the old world studies essay.
- New criteria. Framework for the essay (6 marks), Knowledge and understanding (6), Analysis and line of argument (6), Discussion and evaluation (8) and Reflection (4): 30 marks in all.
- No language categories. The previous guide sorted Language A and Language B essays into numbered categories. The new guide has none, so advice built on them does not apply to 2027 essays.
Tell us your examination session when you order. Our extended essay writing service works to the guide that applies to it.
Your Supervisor, Reflection and the Viva Voce
Every EE has a supervisor at your school. The IB recommends three to five hours of supervision in total, including three reflection sessions: a first one, an interim one and a final one, the viva voce, a short interview after you finish. Your supervisor comments on one draft and confirms at the end that the essay is your own work.
Reflection is marked separately. Criterion E, worth 4 marks, is based on a reflective statement of up to 500 words on your reflection and progress form, not on the essay itself. It has to describe your real research: the decisions you made, the problems you ran into, what you would do differently.
Nobody can live through that for you, and we will not invent it. Your writer can explain what the criterion looks for. The experience and the words are yours.
Deadlines come in layers, too. The IB sets the date by which your school uploads the essays, but your school sets earlier internal deadlines for the draft, the viva voce and the final version. Send us your session and your school’s dates, and choose the order deadline by the earliest one.
How Our Extended Essay Writer Works
Before you decide to pay someone to write your Extended Essay, it’s natural to ask not only who will write it but how. A structured approach is already half the battle, and every step is clearly defined, however soon you need your paper:
- Research question. Your extended essay writer helps you narrow a topic into a focused question that your subject’s methods can answer within 4,000 words.
- Structure. The essay gets the parts the guide requires: a title page, contents, introduction, body, conclusion and bibliography, with the body built around one line of argument.
- Sources. Your writer finds sources and evaluates them: who produced them, how reliable they are, and what they can and cannot show. Data you collected yourself is analyzed as your evidence.
- Argument. The analysis uses the methods of your subject, or of both subjects in an interdisciplinary essay, and leads to a conclusion the evidence supports. The essay also weighs its own strengths and limitations.
- Formatting and citations. In-text citations and a bibliography in the style your school uses, such as APA, MLA, Chicago or Harvard, and no names in the essay, as the guide requires.
- Feedback. While the essay is in progress, send your writer comments and questions through messages in your account. After delivery, a free revision covers anything that misses your original instructions.
An EE follows the IB’s rules, not a university’s. If you need a research paper for a college course instead, our research paper writing service is the better fit.
Free Extended Essay Samples
Want to see a finished EE before you buy an extended essay? Browse our free Extended Essay samples. We have not checked them against the new guide, so read them for structure, research questions and referencing rather than as a picture of how 2027 essays are marked.