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  1. dg2009's Avatar
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    Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    Which are the best exam boards to use?

    AQA | EDEXCEL | OCR
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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    WJEC for Sociology.
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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    I was on the AQA A specification for psychology and OCR for sociology, and they were both pretty good .
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    I find AQA for Psychology pretty good. Especially at AS, it's not too difficult to understand or weirdly-worded questions.
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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    (Original post by Miracle Day)
    WJEC for Sociology.
    I was just about to say that :laugh:.



    (Original post by dg2009)
    Which are the best exam boards to use?

    AQA | EDEXCEL | OCR
    I'm not sure about Psychology though, most people I know who've been doing it with WJEC have been finding it really heard compared to the rest of their subjects. But it's the wrong country for you anyway .
    Last edited by DeadGirlsDance; 01-07-2012 at 21:34.
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    (Original post by DeadGirlsDance)

    I'm not sure about Psychology though, most people I know who've been doing it with WJEC have been finding it really heard compared to the rest of their subjects. But it's the wrong country for you anyway .

    Why should that matter? You can take WJEC exams in England.
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    We're on OCR for Sociology. It's pretty easy, I got 95% in the exam so automatically I assume that it's the better exam board. In fact, the whole year group did well for Sociology, our teacher says she prefers teaching it rather than teaching the AQA one too. Can't help with Psychology, don't do it!
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    If you like a mixture of essay based writing and short questions and research questions then AQA is the way forward. A2 is mainly essay questions as opposed to EDEXCEl and OCR


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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    (Original post by dg2009)
    Why should that matter? You can take WJEC exams in England.
    I didn't realise that you could do that, so that's why I didn't think it would matter.
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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    I'm on AQA A for psychology and AQA for sociology. They were good
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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    (Original post by DeadGirlsDance)
    I didn't realise that you could do that, so that's why I didn't think it would matter.
    we can also do CCEA exams.

    I'm not a big fan of WJEC maybe I'll stick to AQA B and OCR
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    Re: Sociology + psychology best exam boards...
    (Original post by dg2009)
    we can also do CCEA exams.

    I'm not a big fan of WJEC maybe I'll stick to AQA B and OCR
    Thanks, that'll come in handy.

    Ok.
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