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Psychology Pre-course Reading

I'm going to be studying Psychology A2 & AS this autumn and would like to get a head start on my reading, the examining board is AQA apparently. Could anyone recomend anything to read before the course starts that might give me a catch up as I haven't studied it at GCSE level. Maybe let me know what the standard textbooks are likely to be.

Reply 1

yellow96

My advice? Don't bother. Just enjoy your summer.

Reply 2

Petit chou

No one in my class had done it at GCSE i don't think they expect u to have as its not a very common GCSE tbh so just enjoy ur summer and don't worry about ur a levels this summers supposed to be the time to relax after finishing ur GCSEs not to start revising more lol

Reply 3

x mel x

these books were used with us at college for AS

Psychology for AS level - michael w. eysenck

Psychology for AS level - Mike Cardwell, Liz Clarke, Claire Meldrum

these are really in depth text books but the second one has everything you will ever need to know for the AQA A specification

and a little bit of advice - thoroughly memorise every key study grid!!!!!!!!

hope that helps =)

oh yeah - enjoy your summer!!! i wouldn't worry too much as i had never done psychology before and i didn't read up on anything and i coped fine =)

Reply 4

LatinMachine

Yep, don't worry, enjoy your summer. GCSE Psychology, from what I have seen, is a joke (although they're changing the multiple choice paper to make it harder), and A Level Psychology is pretty much a memory test anyway, so unless you're really interested, I'd get the Cardwell, Clark and Meldrum book out of the library.