A-Level Psychology tutoring.
Psychology rewards precise writing, accurate use of research and evaluation that goes past naming a weakness. One to one, online, with research methods treated as the high-value topic it is.
Evaluation depth, and research methods done properly.
Two things reliably separate a B from an A* in Psychology: whether evaluation is genuine methodological critique, and whether research methods is a strength or the topic quietly avoided.
A structure for every extended answer
Point, evidence, explain, critically evaluate. A consistent shape for the long questions means nothing is left out under time pressure, which is when things get left out.
Research methods as a priority
The most frequently examined content on the paper, and the part students most often hope to avoid. Every design, statistical test and concept covered systematically.
Evaluation with real depth
Moving from "one weakness is" to genuine methodological critique of a study’s design, sample and conclusions is what the top bands describe.
Studies used accurately
Names, dates and findings matter, and a study cited loosely does not earn what a study cited precisely does.
The whole specification, with research methods running through it.
Every topic mapped to your board, with research methods taught alongside rather than as a block.
Core approaches
Year 12 foundations
- Social influence and conformity
- Memory and eyewitness testimony
- Attachment
- Psychopathology
- Approaches in psychology
Research methods
The most examined content
- Experimental design
- Sampling and variables
- Data handling and graphs
- Statistical tests and significance
- Reliability and validity
- Ethics
Second-year options
Whichever your school teaches
- Biopsychology
- Cognitive development
- Issues and debates
- Relationships, schizophrenia or forensic
- Applied psychology topics
AQA, Edexcel and OCR.
AQA is the most common by some distance, but the boards differ in optional topics and in how research methods is assessed. Sessions follow the one you are entered for.
Four stages, starting with a free hour.
The same process every ILE student goes through. How we teach
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Diagnostic
A free 60-minute lesson. Bring a marked extended answer and we separate the content gaps from the evaluation ones, which need different work.
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A plan with a target
Research methods early wherever it is weak, since it appears across the papers and improving it lifts marks everywhere rather than in one topic.
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Weekly sessions
Teaching, timed extended answers and statistical practice, marked against the real descriptors.
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Into the exams
Past papers under timed conditions, with attention to answer length against marks available.
Most students arrive at one of these points.
- Evaluation that lists rather than critiques. The most common ceiling on a Psychology grade.
- Avoiding research methods. The most examined topic, and the one students most often hope not to be asked about.
- Struggling with the maths element. Statistics and data handling put off students who chose Psychology to avoid maths.
- Year 12 starting from scratch. Almost nobody has studied it before, so everyone starts level.
- Writing too much or too little. Answer length against marks available is a learnable calibration.
- Chasing an A*. At the top end it is depth of critique rather than more studies.
A-Level Psychology, answered.
AQA, Edexcel and OCR. AQA is the most common, and the boards differ in optional topics and in how research methods is assessed.
More than most students expect. Research methods includes data handling, graphs and statistical tests, and it is the most frequently examined content on the paper, so it is not avoidable.
Usually depth. Naming a weakness is the bottom of the band; critiquing the design, sample or conclusions and explaining what follows from that is the top.
No. Almost nobody has, so Year 12 starts from the same place for everyone.
A full 60-minute lesson with your matched tutor, with no card details and no commitment. It is a real session rather than a sales call.
Yes, on Google Meet, anywhere in the UK.
The first Psychology hour is free.
A full 60-minute lesson on a marked extended answer or a research methods question, free and with no card details.