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Pearson Edexcel A Level Psychology
Assessment Objectives

Pearson Edexcel 9PS0. Three papers of different lengths and marks — 2h15, 2h15 and 2h — weighted 35% / 35% / 30%. Paper 3 teaches nothing new: it is built entirely from research methods and the classic studies already met in Papers 1 and 2, re-examined through issues and debates.

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£4.99The Pearson Edexcel A Level Psychology exam board playbook, 29 pages

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The papers, and where the weight sitsThree papers of different lengths and marks (2 hours 15 minutes, 2 hours 15 minutes and 2 hours), weighted 35%, 35% and 30%. The third paper adds no new topics: it is research methods, named classic studies, and issues and debates.

  1. AO1Knowledge
  2. AO2Application
  3. AO3Analysis and evaluation
Cover of Pearson Edexcel A Level Psychology Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

A working manual for an A-Level psychology department teaching Pearson Edexcel 9PS0, written to the specification and checked against it before release.

Pearson's choice sits entirely in Paper 2: clinical psychology is compulsory for everyone, and one option is chosen from three named topics — criminological psychology, child psychology or health psychology. Papers 1 and 3 carry no departmental choice at all, which Part One states before anything else.

Part Two is built around issues and debates. GCSE names two debates; Pearson's A-Level list has eleven, set out in section 9.3 and examined in Section E of Paper 1 and Section C of Paper 3, and the book prints them in Pearson's own words, with the trap in each. Paper 3 is synoptic by Pearson's own description: its content is the material already taught for Papers 1 and 2, re-examined rather than extended, so a department that revises it by reteaching topics is revising the wrong thing.

Every claim about this board resolves against Pearson's own specification before the book is built, including the weighting chart, drawn to scale from the same figures printed in the table beneath it.

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Pearson Edexcel A level Psychology (9PS0) specification, with the assessment objective ranges reconciled against it
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teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide
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29 pages · 22 sections

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PART ONE — THE QUALIFICATION

01The papers and their weightingsp6
02The three objectives and their weightingsp7
03Where the genuine choice sitsp8
04Research methods and mathematicsp9

PART TWO — TEACHING FOR THE EXAMINATION

05Issues and debatesp11
06Synoptic assessmentp12
07The misconception clinicp13
08Extended writingp14

PART THREE — ASSESSMENT, STAFF AND DEPARTMENT

09Assessment and mock autopsyp16
10Leading the subject: the audit (tool)p17
11Leading the subject: the two-year map (tool)p18
12Leading the subject: targeted intervention (tool)p19
13Examination techniquep20
14A-Level ready check (tool)p21
15Sources and accuracyp22
16What each AO really meansp23
17Understanding mark schemesp24
18Weak to exceptional, comparedp25
19Why students lose marksp26
20Understanding examiner reportsp27
21Question-level analysisp28
22SLT and faculty review questionsp29
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