For those who believe Psychology is a "soft subject"

Wth? You didn't even finish the A-Level so how can you say that?

First off you said Psychology wasn't a science. You were then corrected and told it was. You then said that Universities didn't like it. You were then, again, corrected and told once more that this was not in fact the case. Neither of your two statements were portrayed as opinions, you presented both as fact. You've been corrected several times so I'm not entirely sure why you've just stated 'people didn't correct me' yes, yes they did.

I also LOVE your end sentence. Sorry for talking back 'with attitude'. This is TSR, please don't try and get all gangster, you'll just end up looking silly
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First off Psychology is not considered as a science subject so that should give you a hint...

It IS considered a science -__-

This is what I learned: there are three sciences, physics, chemistry and biology. And anyway unis don't like it so there you go,

Those are the natural sciences, doesn't mean psychology isn't a science.

Yes they do, not considered traditional but it's getting more respect, plus Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, St.Andrews and UCL offer it as a degree.

Then why do most unis count Psychology as a science subject in entry criteria?

Because I finished almost 2/3 of the course, and every time we had mock exams I got A's and B's, like I said in my post earlier. Also, we sat an exam for unit 1 in January and I got an A with about 20 minutes revision the night before... So yeh I can say that

(Apologies for quoting other people, she had a memory lapse, just ignore this!)

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There you go, all people correcting you dear.

No need for personal insults dear, I was only trying to help - you just seemed confused is all.
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P.S I'm going to study law in september, although I'm not entirely sure what that has to do with anything!

Yeah the first unit is p*** easy. But there is a huge difference between AS and A2 and the same goes for other A-levels. You can't judge the whole A-level if you've just done AS.

Why?

I want to know what makes people think that Psychology is a soft subject?

Candidates are required to memorise a lot of relevant information and be able to apply the criteria correctly. Candidates are required to learn many Psychological studies, which sometimes include great amounts of details and have to learn criticisms for each topic. How is this easy? There is quite a lot of content to have to memorise which by itself can be perceived as challenging

A2 Psychology - is quite challenging. You have to outline large essays, include many studies and criticisms usually consisting of 3 or more pages all in 25 minutes.
You have to do this for three essays.

The PSYA3 results which came out were not the best set of results nationally. If Psychology was hard shouldn't most people be scoring grade A's and B's?

No trolling. Simply a debate!

Psychology is a scientific study of human mind. You clearly have no idea what are you talking about. We don't study hypnosis or how to interpret your dreams, if that's what you are getting at. Psychologists use scientific methods to test their theories same as biology.

Why?

I want to know what makes people think that Psychology is a soft subject?

Candidates are required to memorise a lot of relevant information and be able to apply the criteria correctly. Candidates are required to learn many Psychological studies, which sometimes include great amounts of details and have to learn criticisms for each topic. How is this easy? There is quite a lot of content to have to memorise which by itself can be perceived as challenging

A2 Psychology - is quite challenging. You have to outline large essays, include many studies and criticisms usually consisting of 3 or more pages all in 25 minutes.
You have to do this for three essays.

The PSYA3 results which came out were not the best set of results nationally. If Psychology was hard shouldn't most people be scoring grade A's and B's?

No trolling. Simply a debate!

Well then I sincerely hope we don't end up in the same uni!
Btw wow no comeback to my message?

your logic is flawed

f.maths requires a level maths knowledge, and it's probable that the psychology students don't even do a level maths, so they're screwed. Whereas psychology just requires memory and no previous knowledge of the subject. So of course the switched f.maths class stands a better chance than the switched psychology class

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That's good, I guess.

Rude

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...that's exactly what the exam consists of.

Exactly. There is always a massive jump between AS and A2 in every subject, not just Psychology. The difference is, I'm not achieving A's in all of my other AS subjects, which is why I said Psychology was a relatively easy subject, because for me (an AS student) it was easier to achieve an A in this subject in comparrison to my other AS'.

It's probably seen as a soft subject because many of the people who get psychology degrees never really seem to do much with them. A lot of them end up jobs that don't require that degree.

Because it doesn't require any indepth learning or putting things into practise. All you need to be able to do is remember things - any dummy can do that.