AQA Psychology A-Level - Does it matter if I get the year of the studies wrong?

If I forget the year of the study in the middle of the exam, should I just guess or leave it blank? Will marks get deducted? don't know if I should waste time memorizing all the years. There are too many.

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Reply 1

anon25x

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Original post by imloki

If I forget the year of the study in the middle of the exam, should I just guess or leave it blank? Will marks get deducted? don't know if I should waste time memorizing all the years. There are too many.

Leave it blank

Reply 2

anon25x

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When I was doing my A Level Psychology I made a grid for each topic with all the studies and then I'd memorise it and blurt it

Reply 3

imloki

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Original post by anon25x

When I was doing my A Level Psychology I made a grid for each topic with all the studies and then I'd memorise it and blurt it

Okayy. I'll do that too. Thank you for your advice

Reply 4

hannahbananaaaa

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Original post by imloki

If I forget the year of the study in the middle of the exam, should I just guess or leave it blank? Will marks get deducted? don't know if I should waste time memorizing all the years. There are too many.[/QUOT

I studied a level psychology and got an a* this year, I would say that what I was taught is that including the year of the study really indicates to the examiner that you are confident that you know what you are talking about. I found just blurting the dates over and over again is the best way to learn them too. hope that helps for year 13

Reply 5

imloki

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Original post by hannahbananaaaa

Original post by imloki

If I forget the year of the study in the middle of the exam, should I just guess or leave it blank? Will marks get deducted? don't know if I should waste time memorizing all the years. There are too many.[/QUOT

I studied a level psychology and got an a* this year, I would say that what I was taught is that including the year of the study really indicates to the examiner that you are confident that you know what you are talking about. I found just blurting the dates over and over again is the best way to learn them too. hope that helps for year 13

Okay. Thank you so much.

Reply 6

Squiggles1238

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I’ll just add to this that examiners wont deduct marks- they mark positively, i.e. find ways to award marks, not retract them

Reply 7

pharmco

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Original post by imloki

If I forget the year of the study in the middle of the exam, should I just guess or leave it blank? Will marks get deducted? don't know if I should waste time memorizing all the years. There are too many.

I personally got an A* this year and didn't memorise any dates. I made sure i was aware of the dates of key studies that are mentioned in the spec (Zimbardo, Asch, Milgram) but from what I recall I don't think I added any specific dates in my exam. Especially for paper 3, (wouldn't recommend) but i forgot the name of most of the researchers and I would often get them confused so i would right ' A researcher found that...'

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imloki

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Original post by pharmco

I personally got an A* this year and didn't memorise any dates. I made sure i was aware of the dates of key studies that are mentioned in the spec (Zimbardo, Asch, Milgram) but from what I recall I don't think I added any specific dates in my exam. Especially for paper 3, (wouldn't recommend) but i forgot the name of most of the researchers and I would often get them confused so i would right ' A researcher found that...'

Congrats on your A*!! Thank you so much for your reply. I really think I spend too much time trying to memorize all the dates. I'll take your advice and see what happens during mocks!

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