Teacher and author Ad McLaughlin shares advice on how to revise for A Level Psychology using her curated revision playlist of videos focusing on the 2022 AQA Advanced information topics.
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Oxford University Press is committed to keeping our resources are up to date and ensuring that they are inclusive. With this in mind, the Oxford Psychology Team have made some recent revisions to the Complete Companions for AQA Psychology Student Books and Kerboodle.
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Psychology A Level teacher, examiner and text book author, Rachel Moody discusses her experience of teaching research methods during Covid and how she even benefited from the flexible, consultation-style teaching brought on by remote learning.
Read morePsychology is a brand new subject for most students. There is a large amount of new vocabulary to get used to, as well as new ways of thinking. I’ve put together some resources which will help students to start to become familiar with psychological concepts as well as keeping their valuable GCSE skills going, so […]
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How many of our students rely mainly on reading through notes or revision guides, thinking this is how to revise? Unfortunately they are practising recognition, not free recall, and it can be very misleading. They feel they know the material because they have learnt it a few months ago and recognise it, but this is […]
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Mastery isn’t a groundbreaking idea, there’s nothing novel about it, it is the old fashioned concept that you should do something until you get it right and not move on until you have. Brilliant isn’t it? I hope I haven’t put you off yet. Traditional education keeps time as the constant and learning variable – […]
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The examiners were pleased that students had been well prepared for the specification, and had gained considerable knowledge. There were some concerns about the accuracy of material students are coming across online, and it’s important that we should guide them towards more reliable sources, and teach them to be critical and check facts. There were […]
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If you are an AQA Psychology centre, you may recently have found out that there are a few changes to the specification. We’d like to reassure you that our authors and the rest of our Complete Companions team are already on it. Here is a summary of the changes and any implications for The Complete […]
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As Psychology teachers we want students to actively focus on: Knowing the spec. inside-out, so that they can… Spot opportunities to use the spec. content and its terms in their answers, and then… Elaborate on their answer to gain maximum marks But in addition to this, when applied (A03) questions require students to address information […]
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The 2018 examiner reports for AQA A Level Psychology exams were positive, with students largely able to demonstrate their preparation and knowledge. However, now the dust has settled we have prepared a short summary of suggestions for this year’s cohort to learn from, along with some free resources to help them tackle these issues. Key […]
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