*This article is part of the TOK Roadmap — a visual, all-in-one guide I created to help you ace Theory of Knowledge. [View the full roadmap here.]

In this post, I explain

• How to structure your TOK Exhibition
• Don’t include introduction/conclusion

Now that you’ve chosen your prompt, I’ll show you what a well-structured TOK exhibition looks like.

A typical TOK Exhibition structure

—The essay has three big image-paragraph pairs, and that’s it. Each paragraph should be around 300 to 350 words, and I recommend you use all available 950 words.

—At the top, include the prompt you chose, word-for-word. Do not change the wording of the prompt in any way.

—On the document, center each image and scale it to about 1/3 or 1/4 of the page width, to make sure that the entire image is clearly visible to the examiner without scrolling or zooming in.

—Finally, at the bottom, you should include citations for objects (where you got the images from) and any evidence you used. You don’t need references if you are using a personal object and experience, but you must make it clear that these are yours.

*if you’re in a hurry and need help on how to write the paragraph itself, jump to this article.

Do not write introduction/conclusion.

Introduction and conclusion are wrappers for the essay—introduction sets up what you’re going to explore, and the conclusion ties everything together for a coherent essay.

BUT, TOK Exhibition doesn’t require a overall “here’s my point” argument or a big concluding connection between your objects. Here, take a look at the rubric!

Instead, you are going through each object one by one, justifying why it was chosen and explaining how it uniquely answers the prompt. That’s enough.

So, once you’re done choosing objects, go straight to writing about the first object.

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