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MYP Personal Project: Writing the Report

MYP Personal Project - Updated September 2024

Reporting the personal project

The final stage of the personal project is to present the process you have engaged in to achieve your learning goal and create your product. By now you will have demonstrated a wide variety of ATL skills and discovered much about yourself as a learner and a project manager. The report is the final stage where you can present your process and capture the highlights of the experience. 

When it comes to creating your personal project report, the command terms are key to creating a successful report. You will notice that the command terms have been emphasised in order to help you know how to communicate your personal project process with clarity.

Your challenge is to produce a high-quality report that:

  • demonstrates a thorough process
  • communicates a comprehensive, nuanced (complex) understanding of the process of learning independently through all stages of the cycle of inquiry
  • consistently demonstrates sophisticated (complex and knowledgeable) critical thinking
  • successfully transfers knowledge and approaches to learning skills to the project with independence. (IBO, 2021)

    In addition, the report should:

  • be organised into identifiable sections following those of the criteria:

A. Planning
B. Applying skills
C. Reflecting

  • include evidence for all the strands of all criteria
  • be written in the past tense

► Remember, no matter how creative your report is, it does not replace the product. Also, if your product is a written piece, it does not take the place of the written project report.

Possible formats of the report

There are multiple ways that you can present your personal project report. How you choose to present your report is entirely up to you. 

You may choose to present a written document or a mixed format that includes both written and recorded text. How you present the report within these formats is up to you and can be decided in collaboration with your supervisor and the coordinator. 

The table on the next page provides you with the parameters, or creative constraints, of your report and your chosen format. If you have chosen to create only a written report you may have a maximum of 15 pages. A mixture of both written and recorded needs to be carefully organised following the time frame and page allotment provided in the table. 

Document
File types: .doc, .docx, .pdf 
(non-editable), .rtf

 

Recording
File types: .mp3, .m4a, .mp4, 
.mov (codec H264), .m4v

15 pages no recording
14 pages 1 minute
13 pages 2 minutes
12 pages 3 minutes
11 pages 4 minutes
10 pages 5 minutes
 9 pages 6 minutes
 8 pages 7 minutes
 7 pages 8 minutes
 6 pages 9 minutes

Requirements of the report

To ensure that the written part of the report is clearly legible, each page must have a minimum:
11-point font size

2 cm margins

► Evidence presented in images must be visible at the size submitted.

► Audio and video must be recorded and submitted in real time.

► Visual aids may be used to support spoken reports. However, evidence and examples presented in the visual aids should be submitted as documents. Visual aids presented in video format will not be considered for assessment. 

►The bibliography should be uploaded separately and is not included in the page limit.

► Do not include a title page; if included, it will count towards the page limit. 

► Consider how you will present your report and, as you make your final decision, ensure that you have considered the requirements outlined above.