• Talk about TOK!: this seems dull but honestly it’s the #1 way to get new and interesting ideas for your presentation/essay
• Think second order: for your presentation your question must be second order. It cannot be about a subject, it must be about knowledge. For example, “is Darwinism valid?” is not a TOK question. Instead, try “In what ways to obstacles in the acceptance of new knowledge ensure that knowledge is reliable?”
• Define terms: just like your essay, if your question has terms you need to define them so everyone is on the same page.
• Unpack your real life situations: both in your presentation and essay. What is happening? What type of knowledge is being used? What way of knowing (if relevant) is being used? What questions about knowledge arise? For your presentation I would suggest looking at all of these, but in your essay it may not be relevant to talk about all of this stuff.
• Pick a good real life situation: specific, innovative, and current real life situations are good, but you also need to pick one that you can unpack. Don’t pick something that’s overdone, like darwinism, and don’t pick a hypothetical real life situation, The situation must be real and useful for analysis.
• Don’t forget the knowledge framework: if you have no idea what a knowledge framework is, I’d highly suggest that you look it up
• Use perspectives: both in your essay and presentation. Talk about how things may be interpreted differently due to education, culture, historical era, etc
• Implications! this is what brings you up from an 7/8 to a 9/10. Don’t just mention implications, Talk about them. Discuss them. 
• In your essay, compare and contrast your AOK: contrasting is easy, but finding similarities is hard. Find relevant similarities to your question, and really show that you know your stuff.
• And my final advice. I cannot stress this enough: NEVER look up your TOK essay question online: I don’t care if you’re doing it for ideas, or to see if you’ve answered it right. I cannot suggest this to anyone. I’ve read years of TOK examiner reports, and each one says that they can easily notice when a student get ideas from TOK helper website. Don’t look at anyone else’s interpretations of your question. You will be unable to leave the train of thought that someone else has given you, and thousand of other IB students now also have. This is why I don’t suggest looking up your question. If you want or need ideas, talk with your friends about the question, talk to your parents, talk to your teacher. They will help you develop YOUR ideas, and not feed ideas that will be found in thousands of other essays. Your TOK examiner will know if you’ve looked it up. And even if you think you can add enough of your own ideas into it, I wouldn’t risk it.

“Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions.”

Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018).