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AS Psychology Students

BillieTheBotBillieTheBot Posts: 8,721 Bot
edited March 27 in Work & Study
I'm in yr12 @ the mo doin my AS Levels. Ne way next yr i'm thinking about dropping one of my AS subjects & taking up AS Psychology as well as continuing wit 3 other A Levels.

I'm thinking about doin this as i'm thinking towards doin Sociology combined wit Psychology @ Uni.

I was just wondering wot is it like so far & wot exactly are u doin? How are u finding it? Easy? Hard? Boring?

I just want as many peoples opinions as possible please, i've asked a few ppl @ college who are doin it & have had very mixed views.

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i'm in year 13 now, but i think i can still help!

    i did as level psych last year, and i'm now carrying it on as an a2. the course structure was:

    1. cognitive psych - memory
    2. developmental psych - attachments
    3. physiological psych - stress
    4. abnormal psych - abnormality and eating disorders
    5. social psych - social influences
    6. research methods

    i personally found it to be really interesting mostly. sometimes it can get a bit boring when you have to go through all the various theories and studies, but for the most part, i thoroughly enjoyed it.

    it's difficult to say how difficult it is, cos it varies from person to person! i never found the actual work to be too complicated - there's a bit of biology involved which taxed my brain slightly, but nothing too bad hehe! the hardest part is probably at exam time when you have to learn all the studies and stuff.

  • Girl-From-MarsGirl-From-Mars Posts: 2,822 Boards Guru
    yeah what happy go lucky said is what we're doing. (are all the schools in the country doing AQA psychology or are the syllabi (lol)just the same?)

    im finding it a little bit slow at the moment, but thats only because im 2 years older than everyone else and its to be expected really. we've started doing physiological with one teacher, and its quite based on biology. its not difficult though, they simplify things from how a level biology students learn things for example... i enjoy biology anyway though <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

    and we're doing attachments with the other teacher, which is part of developmental psychology. i just find it really interesting to be honest... its good to think about how it would apply to real life situations, it just leads you to think about why people do things sometimes.

    its a good idea to do it if you want to do psych at uni... but its not required to have psychology as an a level, even if you wanted to do a degree purely on psychology! so dont do it if you dont feel you can handle the workload. thats the only thing i would be wary of if i were you, 3 a levels plus another AS. you wouldnt find the work itself incredibly taxing if you were in year 13... and theres no coursework if your'e doing the AQA.. but just make sure you dont think it'll affect your other studies.

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Currently in my second year of hopefully an honours degree in psychology.

    To be honest it is quite dry in first year, and it's quite hard to get your head round some of the concepts thrown at you. Also be warned it is one of the most popular subjects at uni, and some uni's insist on only letting in students who actually applied to do it on their UCAS form. Because of this, it is also very competitive.

    However there is light at the end of the tunnel. It does get much more interesting in second year. I am enjoying it much more, as you actually go into detail about the concepts you touched on in first year. Also you realise that you use psychology all the time, and it does crop up in a lot of other subjects too.

    I don't know how other unis operate but the outline of the first year course was:

    Experimental Design & Stats
    Cognitive Neuroscience
    Biological Bases of Behaviour
    Perception (Visual Cognition)
    Memory
    Language
    Social Psych
    Developmental Psych
    Abnormal Psych

    Hope that helps!
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