A-level Psychology Study Group 2022-2023

hi everyone, i’m currently on an A* for psych. if anyone wants advice or help with any topics, please let me know!

for reference, my paper 3 options are relationships, forensics (which i haven’t yet finished at school), and eating behaviours

Thank you so much for asking!! i am in desperate need for advice, especially this topic as i still cannot figure out how to revise effectively. what is ur revision strategy?

i have a google slides presentation with all the topics and the studies for AO1 & AO3.

hey! could you possibly share those please? It would be a great help

hi everyone, i’m currently on an A* for psych. if anyone wants advice or help with any topics, please let me know!

for reference, my paper 3 options are relationships, forensics (which i haven’t yet finished at school), and eating behaviours

Hi guys, i decided to take up psychology a level during my gap year and I taught myself the content without the help of a school or an online course and I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to know if I'm on track with my long response answers. And also if anyone knows where I can find model answers or would be willing to show me theirs, I'd greatly appreciate it. : )

Hi guys, i decided to take up psychology a level during my gap year and I taught myself the content without the help of a school or an online course and I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to know if I'm on track with my long response answers. And also if anyone knows where I can find model answers or would be willing to show me theirs, I'd greatly appreciate it. : )

Hey what exam board are u doing

It's probably aqa

Fair play that's no easy feat!, Tutor2U have some excellent example answers along with physics and maths tutor.
The way I answer longer answer questions eg 16 on the working memory model is this:
A01- Outline the model itself.
A03- Supporting evidence eg- case studies KF
A03- Problems with using case studies
A03- Problem with the Central executive for being too vague
If you follow that structure, most long answers will work out well!

Can someone please tell me do you need to have a conclusion in your 16 mark question answers? and if so does anyone have any guidance for the conclusion ?

thank you : ) Has your teacher at school said tutor2u and pmt are good because when I did economics my teacher used to tell me how bad they were for model answers so I didn't want to make the same mistake with psychology ? Also do you mind giving me some sort of idea as to how much detail you should go into for each point you make for and against a certain theory or something? thanks again x

tutor2u is great for model essays, i can't say much for pmt bc i don't rlly use it

for AO1 paragraphs, you should be aiming for about 3-4 sentences of description
for AO3 paragraphs, we use the PEEL method at school and for a 16-mark q we aim to write 3 of those
incase you dk what PEEL is:
P- point
E - explanation
E - extra (counterpoint/additional point)
L - linking sentence (to sum it up)

hi everyone, i’m currently on an A* for psych. if anyone wants advice or help with any topics, please let me know!

for reference, my paper 3 options are relationships, forensics (which i haven’t yet finished at school), and eating behaviours

Hey, I am currently doing quite badly in my subjects Psychology A LEVEL and media studies A LEVEL, I have my end of year 12 exams or otherwise known as 'HSE' according to some of my teachers. These exams start in a week or so and i know that i wont do great on them but i also would like to start putting in the work for revision now so in the future i can slowly improve my grade to hopefully a B or A. My main confusion is that I don't know what to do and my teachers don't give great advice which leaves me not performing well and not knowing how to perform better. Being completely honest i winged my gcses and got 6's and to this day i am a complete rookie at revision which is starting to daunt on me.

If you could give me advice on what and how to revise that would be great

Hey, I am currently doing quite badly in my subjects Psychology A LEVEL and media studies A LEVEL, I have my end of year 12 exams or otherwise known as 'HSE' according to some of my teachers. These exams start in a week or so and i know that i wont do great on them but i also would like to start putting in the work for revision now so in the future i can slowly improve my grade to hopefully a B or A. My main confusion is that I don't know what to do and my teachers don't give great advice which leaves me not performing well and not knowing how to perform better. Being completely honest i winged my gcses and got 6's and to this day i am a complete rookie at revision which is starting to daunt on me.

If you could give me advice on what and how to revise that would be great

I feel like you could start memorising the content in smaller bits and then when u completely finish memorising a topic, use a completely blank piece of paper and write whatever you remember from that topic. Then go back and write whatever u missed in a different coloured pen (You can use this method every time and then just look back to the previous sheet to see if u have improved). This helped me to revise and go back to certain areas that I felt were weaker for me. Try to repeat this for all the topics and then the next time u revise you will have those sheets for revision which have summarised information. So you don't have to worry about seperately making notes. And do a lot of exam question to master the information u have studied. Hope this helps!!!