Psychology · GCSE · OCR · £4.99
OCR GCSE Psychology
Assessment Objectives
OCR J203. Two components, 1 hour 30 minutes each, 90 marks each, 50% each — and the only board of the three to publish its AO weightings as ranges (33–37% / 33–37% / 28–32%) rather than exact figures. The brain and neuropsychology has no section of its own on either component; OCR embeds it inside the other topics and examines it there.
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The components, and where the weight sitsTwo components, each 1 hour 30 minutes, 90 marks, 50% each. All content compulsory, and the only board of the three to publish its AO weightings as ranges rather than exact figures.
- AO1Knowledge
- AO2Application
- AO3Analysis and evaluation
A working manual for a GCSE psychology department teaching OCR J203, written to the specification and checked against it before release.
Ofqual sets the three objectives and the 35/35/30 split, so those are identical on every board. OCR is the one board that will not commit its AO weightings to a single figure — both components are published as ranges, with the national total still fixed exactly — and it fixes all content itself, including a mental-health pair that is the only one of the three not to include addiction at all. Part One opens on both of those facts before anything else, including the one most departments miss: the brain and neuropsychology is embedded inside OCR's other topics rather than given a section of its own, and the specification states explicitly that it can be examined there.
Page two routes by reader: a classroom teacher, someone new to the department, a head of department and a line manager each get a named place to start. Everything after Part One is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach — including which edition of the International Classification of Diseases to teach: the Department's content names none, and OCR is the only board of the three whose specification answers it — use the most recent version when a two-year course starts, which is ICD-11, in effect since 1 January 2022.
Every claim about this board resolves against this board's own specification before the book is built, including the fact that OCR publishes no command-word glossary — checked against the full text of the specification, which contains no section by that name.
- Written to
- Cambridge OCR GCSE (9–1) Psychology (J203) specification, with the assessment objective weighting table reconciled against it
- Intended for
- teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide
- Extent
- 30 pages · 23 sections
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