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Edexcel to offer GCSE psychology

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 ...

The future of the AEA

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 ...

AQA (A) still the clear league leader

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 ...

The number of students sitting A level psychology has fallen for the first time.

Friday, November 16th, 2007

  Has the number of students sitting A level psychology reached a plateaux or are we going to see a decline? According to data from the J.C.Q. the number of students sitting A level psychology has fallen for the first time. In June 2007 52,048 candidates sat A level psychology whereas in June ...