psychology gcse

Hi!
I did Psychology GCSE and I loved it so much I did it at A-Level and I'm now taking it for my degree! My GCSE experience was disrupted by COVID (left in March of Y11) so I didn't do my GCSEs, but I can tell you a little bit about my experience studying it if you have any questions.
From what I remember, the content was typically based around psychological findings and experiments that helped psychology develop as a science. This was across a range of different disciplines, like memory, social psychology, language, development etc. so it covered a lot of different areas, a lot of which I found overlapped with some of my other subjects. One overlap is in research methods, which I found quite similar to the research and statistics (like graphs, charts, mean/median/mode etc.) that we used in science. Our exams were usually a mix of multiple choice, short questions and some longer written questions.
If you know which exam board you will be taking, you can look online at their specification - this will tell you the types of topics you could be studying and what you might expect in exams. Here is the AQA one, which is the most common exam board (I'm pretty sure): https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/psychology/gcse/psychology-8182/specification/specification-at-a-glance but it's good to check with your teachers or on your school website which exam board they use to get a more accurate idea of what you'll be studying.
It might also be an idea to search for some past papers and have a read through to see if it seems interesting to you - this can seem quite intimidating as you might not understand some of the concepts yet, but it might help you find out what type of responses they're looking for in exams, which can help guide your revision.
It was a challenging subject, but no subject is especially easy. The fascination behind how the mind works was enough to keep me motivated to revise. Being interested in a subject is so important to your performance!
Best of luck choosing
Alex
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