Higher Psychology 2015/2016

I believe it will be fine - see below from SQA websiteFound the following from SQA website..."The report may be produced in written form or be word-processed. Whichever is used, the assignment should be submitted on paper to SQA for marking. The report should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words long, excluding references, footnotes and appendices. The candidate must provide the word count for the completed report, excluding appendices, footnotes and references. If the word count exceeds the maximum by 10%, a penalty will be applied. The candidate must provide a list of references for sources referred to in their report. The references can be provided in any format that enables another person to find the source of information...."My assignment is almost complete. I'm hoping it is okPosted from TSR Mobile

Does anyone know if the references within the body of text are counted in the word count? (I know the reference page etc isn't counted. I'm already 2537 but need to tweak a few things.

Okay cheers. Sorry mines at 2737. So I've nearly used the full 10% but it is finished, I just need to proof read and tweak a few bits.

We were advised to write the material part as a list, then told it should be a paragraph. How were you guys told to do it? I don't have the word count to make it into a paragraph.

Mines is in the form of a paragraph. More due to good fortune rather than design

Okay cheers. Sorry mines at 2737. So I've nearly used the full 10% but it is finished, I just need to proof read and tweak a few bits.

We were advised to write the material part as a list, then told it should be a paragraph. How were you guys told to do it? I don't have the word count to make it into a paragraph.

Hmm I had mine in a paragraph but I changed it into bullets because I was cutting down on words - had like 3000.
Should I change it back into a paragraph then??


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Apparently every other year has usually been bullet points, but our tutor said this year they have changed it. She had a quick flick through mine and said the other content is too good to remove to allow me to turn my materials section into a paragraph. She just warned me that I may loose a mark here for having it as bullet points but I should make up the mark else where.

Not sure there is a right or wrong decision to make here; looks like it's going to be a judgement call.

Okay doke thanks
I'll ask my teacher just to confirm, she's an SQA marker


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Ugh... I'm now over by 47 words and still ideally need to add more in about ISI and NSI and elaborate on my application to wellbeing. I literally cannot cut anymore words out and stick in any more commas, colons etc...

:'(

Ask your teacher, she or he might help you take out bits that you don't really need



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She said she would only look over them once and they're ready for submission on Tuesday. I'm going to just have to try my best. Psychology isn't one of my requirements for entry to University but I still don't want to do bad .

Hmm okay, she should be looking at least twice but I guess it's her choice.
Then try merging some sentences, take unneeded small words here and there. Also if you have tables, they are not counted in the word count or any graphs from what I have been told


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lmao in my experiment one guy got stuck to a table