The Complete Companions: A Level Year 2 Psychology: The Revision and Exam Companion for AQA (PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETE COMPANION) - Softcover

Cardwell, Mike; Compton, Clare; McIlveen, Rob; Moody, Rachel; Sparks, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198376413 ISBN 13: 9780198376415

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2016

Synopsis

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying:
Exam Board: AQA
Level: A Level Year 2
Subject: Psychology
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: June 2017

This revision guide combines exceptionally clear presentation of the essential information students need to know with plenty of activities to develop the critical skills needed for interpreting and answering exam questions. Revise, practise, then apply what you've learnt to fully prepare for the exams. Differentiated information and activities are provided on what students must, should and could know for all topics (Research Methods, Issues and debates, Relationships, Gender, Cognition and development, Schizophrenia, Eating behaviour, Stress, Aggression, Forensic Psychology, and Addiction). Includes focused exam skills activities to help embed learning and to help you to get your best results.

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Review:

The left-hand page consists of key terms, possible essay questions, exam links, must know, should know and extra evaluation. The AO3 comments are broken down into point, example/evaluation and link, which is a good structure to follow. This is ideal if you encourage your students to use this structure already. From a teacher perspective, the book has a huge amount and variety of exam-style questions and all the answers are provided in the back which really helps as you don't need to complete the tasks yourself! (Karen Brown, Holy Cross College, writing in ATP Today magazine)

Overall, for revision purposes, this is an ideal book as it focuses on preparing students for the exam, it shows them how to organise their knowledge, map that knowledge against the specs and structure this to achieve the AO skills they need to demonstrate to the examiner. The book also gives them examples of how to do this and chances to exercise these skills and gain insight as to how they will be marked. (Bernadette Howells)

Very good book. Content is well explained and the practice questions/sample essays are very helpful. (5-star Amazon review)

Great book. Have been teaching for 14 years and not recommended a book as much to my students. Excellent summary of key points with lots of activities for them to do to check understanding. Also lots of sample essays with examiner comments. (5-star Amazon review)

Excellent revision guide. Each page is laid out with colour coded information. It's split into 'must know'/'should know'/'extra'. Usually each topic is a double sided page spread and the second page contains questions on the topic. Throughout the revision guide there are examiners' comments to help revision. All in all I find it very helpful. (5-star Amazon review)

Book Description:

Revision with exam skills support and practice in one book

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0198376413
• ISBN 13: 9780198376415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304