GCSE Psychology AQA Revision

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Hii,

I have my psychology mock coming up soon for Paper 1. I am quite confident in my ability for the subject (my teacher predicts me 9 or high 8), but I've been struggling with remembering all the content and evaluations and just everything. I think I really took a hit with the development topic, almost all the sub topics there have the potential to be 9 markers, which is awful-

If anyone has got ideas on how to revise, it would be helpful. I don't mind flashcards, but I'm gonna have to make them either manually or online, which is v time-consuming, and I do wonder if it's even useful at this big a quantity of content? I don't want to mindlessly go through studies with plain text.
I feel like practice papers are nice but its always a portion of the whole unit, so it's not an effective way to revise.

Another query - what do you do when you don't remember something? Like on a 4-mark 'Give one evaluation of x's theory', how can you still pull the majority of the marks? I doubt this would happen, but if it happened to you, or you've prepared for such a circumstance, what would you do? I'm aware of some general points, but are they too vague? Linking it helps ofc, but it seems like they can tell, my teacher always says this.

Finally, how can you write detailed answers which guarantee full marks on an AO without having to struggle remembering it or worrying abt time? I have some nice evaluations for example, but they're all so specific it makes me wonder what exactly is being looked for and if that much detail is needed. What level of detail exactly is needed??

Sorry for so many questions, I'm just anxious bc this is a subject I want to do well in, I really enjoy it n stuff. If you have any other comments/tips/ideas do mention them, I'd really appreciate them

Have a great rest of your day
:smile:

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 1

grah-

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Another question - I know, sorry :smile:

On evaluation questions where you can put more than 1 evaluation (5-markers or part of the 9 markers), can I put 3 shorter ones rather than 2 long ones or 2 long ones and 1 short one?

Also how do you get 3 on it?!! I always only get 2/3 or that kinda thing for 'not enough detail'..

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yashika8

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by grah-

Another question - I know, sorry :smile:

On evaluation questions where you can put more than 1 evaluation (5-markers or part of the 9 markers), can I put 3 shorter ones rather than 2 long ones or 2 long ones and 1 short one?
Also how do you get 3 on it?!! I always only get 2/3 or that kinda thing for 'not enough detail'..

im literally the latest ever im sure youve given your gcses by now but if you took it for a levels, i struggled w this in y10 too - always, always try to go for 3 evaluations, and if you really can't come up w a third one make sure the other 2 r EXPNADED like dont just state there there is an opposing theory, state the theory and the basic hypothesis and if you happen to forget what to write for evaluations, just use the G.R.A.V.E acronym - one of those will always be on the studies, especially reliability and validity. you can always get a mark or two minimum, and honestly it's about the total marks at the end anyhow. and i realise u think the units at once can be heavy work but they really are the best way to prepare for the exams, and if you're worried about content print out the spec and work through it, each time you tick something off you'll feel far better (prob some obscure psych theory too honestly) and def use your exam boards textbook they always help - also, i hate ai but it can provide you with basic evaluation points + tips to remember to almost always get above a 5-6 in the 9 markers.

Reply 3

grah-

OP

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Original post

by yashika8

im literally the latest ever im sure youve given your gcses by now but if you took it for a levels, i struggled w this in y10 too - always, always try to go for 3 evaluations, and if you really can't come up w a third one make sure the other 2 r EXPNADED like dont just state there there is an opposing theory, state the theory and the basic hypothesis and if you happen to forget what to write for evaluations, just use the G.R.A.V.E acronym - one of those will always be on the studies, especially reliability and validity. you can always get a mark or two minimum, and honestly it's about the total marks at the end anyhow. and i realise u think the units at once can be heavy work but they really are the best way to prepare for the exams, and if you're worried about content print out the spec and work through it, each time you tick something off you'll feel far better (prob some obscure psych theory too honestly) and def use your exam boards textbook they always help - also, i hate ai but it can provide you with basic evaluation points + tips to remember to almost always get above a 5-6 in the 9 markers.

Late responses appreciated, after just deciding to spam 9 markers I got a 96/100 on the mock paper which I literally could not believe! But I'm so intrigued by what you mean by the GRAVE acronym - what does it stand for?? I feel like im missing something obvious here, but im ready to assimilate this into my revision schema..

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