I graduated with a 2.1 (67%) in Psychology from University of Southampton in 2012. I want to pursue getting on to a funded PhD in Psychology in a few years time. In the meantime I am going to apply for different masters courses in Research Methods/Psychology. Looking at my options, I have identified several unis, Oxford, Birmingham etc that seem suitable due to their funding for phds after the Masters.
However, during my degree my statistics modules suffered poorer grades than the average. I got a 40 and 58 in first year modules and 54 in second year module. Ironically, maths was my strongest subject at school, but I spent such little time on these modules and so did poorly.
I am concerned that this will affect my application for a masters for 2016 especially for the likes of Oxford, as a Research Methods masters is quite stats heavy.
So my possible solution is to self study AS Level and possibly A2 level stats to try and improve my application (along with the added positive of self study) between now and June (given that I have taken degree modules in this already, should be able to learn it pretty quickly and try to ace it.
Any opinions if this is a good idea?