AS – May 25th 2011 Wednesday am

WJEC    PY1    (1h 15m)
OCR    G541   (1h 00m)
Edexcel    Unit 1 (1h 20m)
AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m)
AQA (B)  PSYB2  (1h 30m)

AS – June 7th 2011 Tuesday pm

AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m)
AQA (B)  PSB2  (1h 30m)
Edexcel    Unit 2 (1h 40m)
OCR    G542  (2h 00m)
WJEC    PY2     (1h 45m)

A2 – June 17th 2011 Friday pm

AQA (A) PSYA3 (1h 30m)
AQA (B) PSYB3 (2h 00m)
WJEC    PY3   (1h 30m)
OCR    G543    (1h 30m)
Edexcel    Unit 3    (1h 30m)

A2 – June 21st 2011 Tuesday am

AQA (A)  PSYA4 (2h 00m)
AQA (B) PSYB4  (2h 00m)
OCR   G544    (1h 30m)
Edexcel    Unit 4 (2h 00m)
WJEC    PY4  (2h 30m)

All of the dates and times were kindly provided by www.modernisationonline.org.uk

January 2010 exams are here.

AS -   January 12th 2011  Wednesday am

Edexcel Unit 1 (1h 20m)
AQA (A)  PSYA1 (1h 30m)
WJEC PY1 (1 h 15m)
OCR G541 (1h 00m)
AQA (B)  PSYB1 (1h 30m)

AS -  January 19th 2011 Wednesday am

AQA (A) PSYA2 (1h 30m)
WJEC PY2 (1 h 45m)
OCR G542 (2h 00m)
AQA (B) PSYB2 (1h 30m)
Note that Edexcel do not offer unit 2 in January

A2 January 28th 2011 Friday am

Edexcel Unit 3 (1h 30m)
AQA (A) PSYA3 (1h 30m)
WJEC PY3 (1 h 30m)
OCR G543 (1h 30m)
AQA(B) PSYB3 (1h 30m)

February 2nd 2011 Wednesday pm

Edexcel Unit 4  (2h 00m)
AQA (A) PSYA4 (2h)
WJEC PY4 (2h 30m)
OCR G544  (1h 30m)
AQA (B)  PSYB4 (2h 00m)

All of the dates and times were kindly provided by www.modernisationonline.org.uk

GCSE exams coming soon and GCE summer exam are here.

For psychology, candidates currently working towards their AS exams in May, and A2 exams in July there will still be a number of opportunities for re-sits.

AS re-sits will be available in January 2009 and then the following May 2009. No more re-sits of the current AS psychology exams will be available after May 2009.

A2 re-sits will be available in January 2009, June 2009, January 2010 and June 2010.

Of course, only those units that are normally offered in January will be available in January.

For those psychology candidates studying the new specifications, the A2 units will not be available for examination until 2010, which means that candidates cannot complete the full A level in the first year of the new specifications.

Furthermore, the units from the current (legacy) specifications cannot be combined with units from the new specifications.

The draft 2009 psychology GCSE specifications from OCR and AQA have been published.

The drafts have to be submitted to the regulators in April 2008 and the specifications will be available from September 2008, with first teaching from September 2009.

Edexcel and WJEC have announced that they will offer GCSE psychology from 2009 but have not yet published their drafts.

The OCR GCSE draft psychology specifications are here

The AQA GCSE draft psychology specifications are here

Update – here is the link to Edexcel draft GCSE specifications

Update – here is the link to WJEC draft GCSE specifications

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 bodies’ websites.

Percentage of students sitting A level psychology June 2007

AQA (A)   60.6%
OCR         19.9%
AQA (B)   10.2%
Edexcel      9.2%

Percentage of students sitting AS level psychology June 2007

AQA (A)    60.4%
OCR          19.2%
AQA (B)    10.1%
Edexcel       8.6%
WJEC          1.8%

Below are the percentages of students sitting A level psychology June 2006

AQA (A)    60.3%
OCR          18.5%
AQA (B)    11.0%
Edexcel     10.2%

The percentages are all rounded up to 1 decimal point.