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The Ongoing PSYA4 Discussion Thread- June Exam :)

Hey everyone, now that people have finished PSYA3 (at long last :tongue:

) I thought we could discuss what we're gonna do for PSYA4, how we're finding it so far etc.

So the exam is on the morning of the 21st of June and lasts 2 hours!

Not looking forward to research methods, had a brief readthrough of the chapter and gosh it looks mind numbingly boring.

Then there's one of Schizophrenia, Depression and Anxiety disorders/OCD.

And another one of Anomalistic, Media and addiction psychology. Bring it on!

I'm doing Schizophrenia and Anomalistic. What are you all doing?

Here are all the current aqa resources I can find:

PSYA4 Specimen:
Spec Paper
Spec Markscheme

PSYA4 Jan 2010:
Paper
Markscheme
Examiners Report

Found PSYA4 June 2010 and January 2011 too, it's attached to this post.

(edited 13 years ago)

PSYA4 Jun 10 QP.pdf111.7KB

PSYA4 Jun 10 MS.pdf195.3KB

PSYA4 Jun 10 ER.pdf124.0KB

PSYA4 Jan 11 QP.pdf96.2KB

PSYA4 Jan 11 MS.pdf211.3KB

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Reply 1

Rosi M

Does everyone have to do research methods? I just thought it was my college being wierd again!

Reply 2

LettersFromTheSky

Original post by Rosi M

Does everyone have to do research methods? I just thought it was my college being wierd again!

Haha yeah it is, its compulsory! It looks so boring I really hope we don't have to know how to do statistical tests :tongue:

Reply 3

DellaLouise

depression and addiction for me :smile:

we started addiction back before the summer holidays for some reason so we've already done half the topic and i can tell you it's quite boring from what I can remember :yawn:

Reply 4

Rosi M

Original post by LettersFromTheSky

Haha yeah it is, its compulsory! It looks so boring I really hope we don't have to know how to do statistical tests :tongue:

Omg i dont even know what that is! Urghhh.. do they actually give us data and expect us to calculate stuff? I do biology and chemistry but doing calculations in psychology is just wrong!!

Reply 5

xxamixx31

Original post by Rosi M

Omg i dont even know what that is! Urghhh.. do they actually give us data and expect us to calculate stuff? I do biology and chemistry but doing calculations in psychology is just wrong!!

Haa, yes they do :smile:

We have to do similar things to hypothesis testing...mann-whitney test, chi-square :\ I do maths A2 with stats and it isn't gonna be that bad, don't panic!!! It just looks boring tbh :frown:

Reply 6

Rosi M

Original post by xxamixx31

Haa, yes they do :smile:

We have to do similar things to hypothesis testing...mann-whitney test, chi-square :\ I do maths A2 with stats and it isn't gonna be that bad, don't panic!!! It just looks boring tbh :frown:

Haha im not worried about the difficulty.. it cant be that hard 'cos they know that not all psycho students are science/maths students but the boredom we're going to suffer from.. bad bad times :tongue:

Reply 7

YoursSincerely

Doing Schizophrenia and Media, looking forward to it to be honest, PSYA3 was getting extremely boring.

Btw hopefully this thread will be as successful as PSYA3 - missing that thread already... :redface:

Reply 8

LettersFromTheSky

Original post by YoursSincerely

Haha yeah thank god psya3 is over. My teacher started psya4 as soon as we got back from the xmas hols, so basically we're already done iwth schizophrenia! Its quite a nice topic tbh and the biological stuff isn't difficult, despite that being a thing people tend not to like, the biological stuff!

Yeah that was a good thread, we could all discuss with e/o our worries and stuff :smile:

.

and we're doing anomalistic, media psychology looks really interesting too though have fun doing it :biggrin:

Reply 9

Shortyyyy

My college decided to do Unit4 in Jan and Unit 3 in June

So I am revising for this exam which is on wednesday 2nd Feb
I am doing topics Schizophrenia,Media Psychology and Research Methods
Arghhh 3 more days left :eek:

Reply 10

LettersFromTheSky

Original post by Shortyyyy

wow good luck, whats your fav topic been ?

Reply 11

tamtamsham

Original post by YoursSincerely

I'm doing the same and totally agree with PSYA4 getting boring :tongue:

- the best thing about it was the thread :wink:

Reply 12

asha_patel

I'm starting PSYA4 on monday... we'll be doing OCD and addiction... not quite sure how i feel about it now... but definitely worried about research methods... hated the little bit we had to do for AS!!!

Reply 13

LettersFromTheSky

The Phillip Allan student unit guides are really useful, if anyones interested in them. Theres two for unit 4 just like unit 3.

Psychology in Action and Research Methods

Psychopathology

Reply 14

asha_patel

Original post by LettersFromTheSky

The Phillip Allan student unit guides are really useful, if anyones interested in them. Theres two for unit 4 just like unit 3.

Psychology in Action and Research Methods

Psychopathology

Just so i understand, the first link is the revision book all to do with research methods, whilst the second link has the revision book for the other 2 questions (e.g. OCD and psychology of addiction)?

Reply 15

LettersFromTheSky

Original post by asha_patel

The first is research methods and the applied topics (addictio, media psych and anomalistic)

the second book is solely psychopathology (schizophrenia, OCD and depression)

Reply 16

asha_patel

Original post by LettersFromTheSky

The first is research methods and the applied topics (addictio, media psych and anomalistic)

the second book is solely psychopathology (schizophrenia, OCD and depression)

Ahhhh, ok. Thank you!!!

Reply 17

Pentland

We get to pick our topics in our college luckily!? So either depression, schizophrenia or something else. I've picked depression anyway and notes are done.
Media influence may key into what I learn in media throughout this year and finally, research methods! Mmmmm, the only maths I do is work our floor plans at work.. tbh OUCH