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AQA (A) still the clear league leader

November 23, 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 various awarding [...]

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OCR Marking – again

November 23, 2007

  Last month Warwick Mansell, a journalist working for TES, discovered that examiners who were remarking OCR psychology papers were told not to change students’ A-level marks after school or college appeals unless there are overwhelming reasons to do so. This is of course particularly cruel for those students who had their papers badly marked [...]

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Transferring from AQA to OCR is not permitted

November 16, 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 is not possible [...]

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OCR Resources and Meetings

November 12, 2007

  According to my email delivered on the 6th November  “OCR have produced Schemes of Work for the revised A Level qualifications, with a new approach piloted for a range of subjects. For these, we have adopted a ‘by teachers, for teachers approach, working with teachers from a number of different centres. For each Scheme [...]

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Books for OCR psychology

October 31, 2007

This will be the first of a number of posts on which books are going to be available for the new specifications. As you may know, the awarding bodies all now have their own “official partners” and for psychology OCR have gone to bed with Heinemann Heinemann are to publish an AS Book (available from [...]

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OCR Marking

October 30, 2007

The following article was posted on TES in September, although I have only just spotted it. I was aware that the journalist Warwick Mansell was researching the article but missed it when it was published. The main concern is regarding the inconsistent marking of the core studies 2 (2541) paper for OCR psychology and the [...]

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New GCEs for 2008

October 28, 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 [...]

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