Psychology Reading List?

Your best bet is to go on to one the website of one of the unis you're applying to and find the module description. I know Exeter have a reading list at the end of every module description. That means you'll be talking about books that are relevant to the course you'll be taking. You could also read some of the papers published by your potential lecturers.


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Yes . Going into second year.


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And it depends where you go too. Top ranked Russell Group uni, you have a better chance, the same with every subject.


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I went to an open day at York University and in their Psychology mini lecture they suggested reading Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, and also one of the professors stated that you could pass your Psychology degree by reading the Horrible Science 'Bulging Brains' ... Which seems like a very unconventional choice!


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Does Manc offer forensic psychology as a module? I did it at A-Level, but we don't do it in my degree which is a shame because I really enjoyed it. If you want to do forensic psychology, I'd suggest looking at criminology courses instead.

The problem with psychology is it's so broad that people come into it wanting to do different things and only one section of the entire course is interesting to them and they disengage. Unfortunately, most people have the misconception that a psychology degree is a one way ticket to be a therapist, when you spend very little of your time doing clinical psychology (and it's the most competitive).

So if you're set on forensics, at least look at criminology, my boyfriend changed his course so instead of doing psychology he's doing philosophy and criminology as a flexible combined honours - because there were too many modules that he just didn't care for.


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I'll definitely look into that! Thank you I am interested in psychology in general, so I think I'd like a straight psych course. What's your fave module?

Thank you! What other unis are you applying for?

I applied for York, Durham, Lancaster and Northumbria.

Also a tip we were given when writing our personal statements was to be careful about mentioning books; they could receive loads of personal statements talking about the same books and this doesn't make your PS stand out! Also if you mention a book you would have to be prepared to answer in depth questions about it if you were to be invited to an interview. I think the general view is to only include a book if you have actually found something interesting and it is relevant to what you are writing; don't just mention a book for the sake of it!

That is not to say you shouldn't read any though... Any related books will help you overall!

Thank you so much! I was actually going to mention a few books that I've read, so you saved me what other PS tips were you given?

Open with an interesting sentence, making the admissions team want to read on. Talk about how Psychology relates to your life, for example I wrote about how watching my younger foster brother struggling to learn his spellings made me realise how complex language acquisition is, and how it 'led me to think about visual perception in relation to learning' ... I put this in particularly to impress one of the lecturers at York who had a passion for visual learning, and he told us he was one of the admissions staff!

What universities are you applying for?

Manchester, Liverpool, Lancaster, Durham and maybe Cambridge! How are your results?

Good choices! My results are good thank you I got into Northumbria which I put down as my first choice in the end, how were your results?


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