Urgent! EPQ relation to my A-level subjects?
My EPQ is based around climate change and the barriers in implementing solutions and this coincides a lot of with my Geography specification. The problem is my teacher mentioned that an EPQ shouldn't be related to what we are studying but because of the topic I have picked and what I want to research, they are bound to coincide. My main question I want to ask is if my EPQ and subjects have to be fully unrelated?
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Reply 1
Yeah. They have to be fully unrelated. They can be in the same general field (e.g. biology) but they can't be on something you're learning. You can use skills you learn in lesson e.g. data analysis but you can't analyse the same data you learn in lesson, ya know?
For example, I take psychology, biology and chemistry. The topic I chose is in regards to psychopharmacology - something that combines all 3 lessons but doesn't have any direct topic overlap.
Worst case scenario, do it on a hobby of yours.
For example, I take psychology, biology and chemistry. The topic I chose is in regards to psychopharmacology - something that combines all 3 lessons but doesn't have any direct topic overlap.
Worst case scenario, do it on a hobby of yours.
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by reallycringenameYeah. They have to be fully unrelated. They can be in the same general field (e.g. biology) but they can't be on something you're learning. You can use skills you learn in lesson e.g. data analysis but you can't analyse the same data you learn in lesson, ya know?
For example, I take psychology, biology and chemistry. The topic I chose is in regards to psychopharmacology - something that combines all 3 lessons but doesn't have any direct topic overlap.
Worst case scenario, do it on a hobby of yours.
For example, I take psychology, biology and chemistry. The topic I chose is in regards to psychopharmacology - something that combines all 3 lessons but doesn't have any direct topic overlap.
Worst case scenario, do it on a hobby of yours.
Thank you so much. I also gained some clarification from my supervisor about dual accreditation but this reply helped me a lot.
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by anananyaaa007My EPQ is based around climate change and the barriers in implementing solutions and this coincides a lot of with my Geography specification. The problem is my teacher mentioned that an EPQ shouldn't be related to what we are studying but because of the topic I have picked and what I want to research, they are bound to coincide. My main question I want to ask is if my EPQ and subjects have to be fully unrelated?
Hello,
Your EPQ cannot relate to anything which you will be learning in class as part of your A Levels. You can however do it on the same subject.
When I did my EPQ I done it on Leadership Psychology. This was allowed because my A Level Psychology did not cover Leadership Psychology and although I have done a number of Leadership courses, for my EPQ i was approaching the subject from a different angle.
In psychology we did cover the different approaches in class and I included them in my EPQ but applied to Leadership so in this case it was sufficiently different.
I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
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by UoL StudentsHello,
Your EPQ cannot relate to anything which you will be learning in class as part of your A Levels. You can however do it on the same subject.
When I did my EPQ I done it on Leadership Psychology. This was allowed because my A Level Psychology did not cover Leadership Psychology and although I have done a number of Leadership courses, for my EPQ i was approaching the subject from a different angle.
In psychology we did cover the different approaches in class and I included them in my EPQ but applied to Leadership so in this case it was sufficiently different.
I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
Your EPQ cannot relate to anything which you will be learning in class as part of your A Levels. You can however do it on the same subject.
When I did my EPQ I done it on Leadership Psychology. This was allowed because my A Level Psychology did not cover Leadership Psychology and although I have done a number of Leadership courses, for my EPQ i was approaching the subject from a different angle.
In psychology we did cover the different approaches in class and I included them in my EPQ but applied to Leadership so in this case it was sufficiently different.
I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
When you did leadership psychology, what were you talking about? I'm writing about political psychology (what aspects of a persons background may have an impact on their ideologies and stuff) but it's overlapping a lot for me
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by vicdorsomethingWhen you did leadership psychology, what were you talking about? I'm writing about political psychology (what aspects of a persons background may have an impact on their ideologies and stuff) but it's overlapping a lot for me
Hello,
So for my EPQ it was essentially split up into two sections; one some research making use of both primary and secondary research methods and two I essentially came up with my own explanations based on the research.
For the research, I was looking at whether a leader's personality impacts their leadership and if so how this impacts their followers. I made use of a questionnaire as well as conducting a meta-analysis. Research Methods was very much part of my A Level including the methods I used, but at A Level we were looking at Research Methods purely theoretically so by making use of these methods in the practical sense it was again separate enough from my A Level.
For my explanations, I made use of the general ideas of the different approaches in psychology which were covered in my course. However, I explicitly linked this to leadership style and personality. So although the general principles were the same, I applied them to a completely different context.
I hope this answers your question. Please do let me know if you have any further questions.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
Reply 6
Were you allowed to include the psychology approaches if you already took psychology? I was told there wasn't allowed any dual accreditation at all, or did you just apply the skills?
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by vicdorsomethingWere you allowed to include the psychology approaches if you already took psychology? I was told there wasn't allowed any dual accreditation at all, or did you just apply the skills?
Hello again,
I didn't actually do my EPQ under my sixth form so this may have had an impact but I was allowed to use the psychology approaches because these are essentially underpinning ideas in psychology and pretty much all other explanations arise from one or more of these approaches. So to provide a history example, the Learning approach in psychology could be compared to English History and the Biological approach compared to American history. The approaches were essentially topics within topics or in other words different ways of thinking and explaining a situation/
I hope this makes some form of sense. Again if you have any further questions do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
Reply 8
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by UoL StudentsHello,
Your EPQ cannot relate to anything which you will be learning in class as part of your A Levels. You can however do it on the same subject.
When I did my EPQ I done it on Leadership Psychology. This was allowed because my A Level Psychology did not cover Leadership Psychology and although I have done a number of Leadership courses, for my EPQ i was approaching the subject from a different angle.
In psychology we did cover the different approaches in class and I included them in my EPQ but applied to Leadership so in this case it was sufficiently different.
I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
Your EPQ cannot relate to anything which you will be learning in class as part of your A Levels. You can however do it on the same subject.
When I did my EPQ I done it on Leadership Psychology. This was allowed because my A Level Psychology did not cover Leadership Psychology and although I have done a number of Leadership courses, for my EPQ i was approaching the subject from a different angle.
In psychology we did cover the different approaches in class and I included them in my EPQ but applied to Leadership so in this case it was sufficiently different.
I hope this helps, if you have any further questions please do let me know.
Charlie
Law LLB Student
hello i was wondering i was concidering doing my epq on history for example hellenization of the jews could i then use this topic on my a level modern history course work or so they have to be different as well
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