Exam Tip

Work out how much time you have per mark for your exam questions and only spend that amount of time answering each part of each question.

For AQA-A:

Part (a) on an AS question paper is only worth 6 marks, no matter how good your answer is!
Part (b) is also only worth 6 marks
Part (c) is worth 60% of the question

If you do not answer part (c) you can only get 40% of the marks for that question - assuming the answers for (a) and (b) are perfect. 40% is only just a grade E

Resource of the Week: FreeMind

This week's resource is an open source software application for creating Mind Maps. A great resource for A level Psychology exam revision. Because FreeMind is open source it is completely free; it is free to download and use with no restrictions and you are even free to modify the source code and make it better if you are a programmer.

FreeMind is really easy to use and produces beautiful mindmaps. The mindmaps are foldable, so you can focus on the branches you are working on at the time and you can format each branch exactly as you want it. Mindmap branches can be coloured, displayed as bubbles or forks and you can even include symbols.

So no more messy handwritten mindmaps that are too complicated to be any use. Did I mention that it is completely free? Why pay nearly £60 for Tony Buzan's iMindMap or between £50 and £200 for MindManager when you can get FreeMind for free. Get it here, there are installers for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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