A-Level Psychology

[JackBuddy]

Hated it, dropped it after a year. Only 7 people from 3 classes decided to continue with it.

You might enjoy it though.

[Immenseman]

I'm doing it atm and I orginally hated it but slowly it's getting better. I wouldn't advise picking it though.

[N!ck]

I don't like it. It's all retention and regurgitating in the exam. Loads of stuff to memorise/remember. Not my cup of tea.

[Virgin Mary]

Its a very popular field at the moment with a lot of highly paid careers linked to it, so people think it must be good and go into with high expectations only to end up disappointed. Unless you're interested in it, it can be a pretty boring field, as I can imagine many fields can be if you're not interested in them. I am interested in it so I love it .

I always get the impression people pick it because they think it's going to be an "interesting look at the human mind". Most people end up hating it because, as you say, most people who take it don't want to be psychologists.

[JackBuddy]

I always get the impression people pick it because they think it's going to be an "interesting look at the human mind". Most people end up hating it because, as you say, most people who take it don't want to be psychologists.

That was my reasoning for taking it, and that I had no idea what else to pick.

[Immenseman]

Yeah people do it as it seems "interesting" it really isn't but I won't drop it because it's bearable unlike some of my other choices, lol.

[Inseriousity.]

It just comes off as being pretentious. Besides that everyone takes it and I don't know why and then they all complain about how boring it is.

I took it because I'm nosy! There are some interesting studies (the Freud/Hans study was like.... o...k). It's only boring if you walk into it with the wrong idea about what the course is (some people expect experiments and then are like -twitch- at all the theory involved).

[Liz♥]

When I was doing my A-Level for Psychology, I enjoyed it a lot because of the teahcer imo. We had 2 teachers at my college and one would always manage to make the lessons active and re-word what the cardwell said in order for us to understand it whereas the other teacher would teach us straight out of the book and not even bother re-wording it to make it easily understandable. Thanks to my first teacher i'm now studying child psychology at degree level because I do believe psychology is an in-depth interesting subject than what people make it out to be, at my college there was a weekend called the psychology residenital where we went out the class room to this place in Wales where we studied parapsychology, crimology & anthropology (one of the boys broke into tears when he thought he saw a ghost ), because these sections of the psychology aren't included in the syllabus (well parapsychology is now included in the new one) and gave a chance to learn the other sides of psychology outside of the classroom and also because my teacher got a degree in parapsychology and it made me look at psychology differently because it's such a broad subject as it branches off into so many different areas which must mean, it must be good if there's this many areas of psychology to study.

If you're a determined student, and you're lucky enough to get a teacher that puts effort into the lessons then you will enjoy the lessons. But if you're just a deteremined student, it would be good to re-read over any sections you've read over in psychology to try & understand it, my friend who was with the other teacher ends up teaching herself and she still enjoys psychology because I guess the concept is overall interesting and is high in demand in the public as it's good knowledge to possess.

[RandomManJay]

I always get the impression people pick it because they think it's going to be an "interesting look at the human mind". Most people end up hating it because, as you say, most people who take it don't want to be psychologists.

There can be loads of reasons , I was just using that one reason as an example because a lot of people I know said that was why they picked it.