Pick your exam board. 39 papers with their mark schemes, straight from AQA, Edexcel and OCR.
Components 7182/1, /2 and /3.
Three papers a series from June 2022, as far back as Pearson publishes.
Research methods, core studies, applied psychology.
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Describe is AO1, apply is AO2, evaluate is AO3, and a sixteen-marker is a mix with a published ratio. Writing beautifully about the wrong objective is the most common way to lose half of a long question.
If the stem gives you Jamal and his phobia, the answer says Jamal and his phobia. Marks for AO2 are awarded for the link to the stem, not for the theory, which has usually already been credited.
Designing studies, identifying variables, choosing and interpreting the statistical tests, calculating and quoting to the right precision. These are learnable in an afternoon and they appear on every paper.
One criticism taken three sentences deep beats four criticisms listed. State the point, explain why it matters for that theory, then say what it implies. Depth is explicitly what the mark scheme rewards in the top band.
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