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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Edexcel have announced that they are to offer psychology GCSE.
Currently AQA and OCR offer GCSE psychology, which is still a relatively small market. Last summer 3275 candidates sat AQA GCSE psychology and 3843 sat GCSE OCR psychology.
However, looking at the Edexcel web site it does seem that they have some ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Advanced Extension Awards (AEAs) were introduced in summer 2002 and were designed to challenge the most able A level students and to provide opportunities for students to show a greater depth of understanding than required at A level.
The AEA is available in 19 subjects. The subjects offered for AEA have ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
The AQA (A) specification is still the clear leader in terms of number of students sitting the different specifications.
Last June (2007) 60.6% of students sitting A level psychology followed the AQA (A) specifications and 60.4% of students sitting AS psychology followed the AQA (A) route.
Below are figures taken from the ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Individual candidates who move to another centre or who, for other reasons, have to change their course of study part way through a GCE psychology course may be eligible to transfer credit between specifications. Transfer is not automatic - an application must be made to the receiving awarding body.
However, transfer ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Psychseed.com
Psychseed aim to provide A Level Psychology (AQA A) teachers with high quality, easily accessible resources. They say that their student revision days and teacher workshops are designed to help you and your students focus on those aspects of the subject that are key to success.
Psychseed offer
Succeed in Psychology – ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Nelson Thornes is the official partner for AQA psychology and they have an AS book due out for AQA (A) in March 2008. The authors are Simon Green, Rosie McGinley, Julia Willerton, Jane Willson and James Bailey
There is more information here.
The AQA (B) AS book is also due in March ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
This is certainly not new news for many teachers, but here are the urls for the new AS/A level specifications starting in September 2008.
AQA (A)
AQA (B)
OCR
Edexcel
WJEC
I know that many teachers are using the forthcoming changes to inform their decisions about which specifications they will be teaching in 2008. We would ...
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