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Online A Level Psychology tutoring for AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas: research methods, statistics, evaluation and extended writing for your board's papers.

A Level Psychology marks are usually lost in two places: research methods and statistics, which run through every specification, and extended answers that describe studies well but do not evaluate them. An A Level Psychology tutor works on both with your own board's papers, and on applying theories to the scenarios exam questions give you. Tell us your exam board and specification code during onboarding and we match you with a tutor for that course, usually within 24 hours. Sessions are online.

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What You Get with A Level Psychology Tutoring

Comprehensive support designed to help you achieve your target grade

Your Board's Papers

  • AQA 7182: three 96-mark papers, including three option topics in Paper 3
  • Pearson Edexcel 9PS0: Foundations, Applications (clinical plus one option) and Psychological skills
  • OCR H567 and WJEC Eduqas A290QS, including Eduqas personal investigations
  • Timed past papers marked against the official mark scheme

Research Methods

  • Experimental designs, sampling, variables, reliability, validity and ethics
  • Descriptive statistics, graphs and calculations
  • Choosing and interpreting statistical tests, such as the sign test, Wilcoxon and chi-squared
  • Applying methods to the unfamiliar research scenarios questions describe

Evaluation & Writing

  • Balancing knowledge (AO1), application (AO2) and evaluation (AO3) in longer answers
  • Evaluation that uses evidence and counter-evidence, not stock points
  • Applying theories to scenarios in stimulus questions
  • Issues and debates used across topics
Real student results

Students Improving Their Psychology Grades

C → A
"My 16-mark essays were all description and no evaluation. My tutor showed me how to build genuine AO3 arguments and my Paper 1 score went up by 18 marks."
S

Sadia K.

A Level Psychology, AQA, Summer 2024

B → A*
"Research methods was the section I dreaded most. My tutor made statistical tests feel logical rather than arbitrary and I started getting near-perfect marks."
J

Jack M.

A Level Psychology, AQA, Summer 2024

D → B
"Biopsychology felt overwhelming - so much to memorise. My tutor helped me build a logical structure for the nervous system and I stopped confusing everything."
E

Ella F.

A Level Psychology, OCR, Summer 2023

How It Works

Simple steps to get started with A Level Psychology tutoring

1

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Choose 3 to 100 hours based on your needs. Split across subjects if needed.

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Complete Onboarding

Tell us your exam board, year group, weak areas, goals, and scheduling preferences.

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AS Level vs Full A Level: What's the Difference?

We support students at both stages - here's how they compare

Area
AS Level (Year 12)
A Level (Year 12–13)
Qualification
A separate qualification, usually sat at the end of Year 12. AS results do not count towards the A Level
The full A Level, with all exams sat in the same series at the end of the course
Papers (AQA example)
AQA 7181: two papers of 1 hour 30 minutes, 72 marks each
AQA 7182: three papers of 2 hours, 96 marks each
Content (AQA example)
Social influence, memory, attachment, approaches, clinical psychology and mental health, and research methods
Adds biopsychology, further research methods, issues and debates, and three option topics
Research Methods
Designs, sampling, ethics, data and the sign test
Adds choosing between inferential tests, such as Spearman's rho, Mann-Whitney and chi-squared
OCR AS
OCR AS Psychology (H167) has its final exams in June 2027
OCR A Level H567 runs to summer 2028, then H569 replaces it

A Level Psychology Syllabus Coverage

A Level Psychology content varies more between boards than most subjects, so the topic areas below are labelled by board. What every specification shares is the weight on research methods and the same three assessment objectives: knowledge and understanding (AO1), application (AO2) and analysis, interpretation and evaluation (AO3).

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AQA Paper 1: Introductory Topics

  • Social influence: conformity, obedience, resistance and minority influence
  • Memory: multi-store and working memory models, forgetting, eyewitness testimony
  • Attachment: Lorenz and Harlow, Bowlby, the Strange Situation and cultural variations
  • Clinical psychology and mental health: definitions in the field of mental health
  • +1 more

2
AQA Paper 2: Psychology in Context

  • Approaches: learning, cognitive, biological, psychodynamic and humanistic
  • Biopsychology: the nervous system, synaptic transmission and the endocrine system
  • Localisation of function, plasticity and ways of studying the brain
  • Research methods: designs, sampling, ethics and data handling
  • +1 more

3
AQA Paper 3: Issues & Options

  • Issues and debates
  • Option 1: Relationships, Gender, or Cognition and development
  • Option 2: Schizophrenia, Eating behaviour, or Stress
  • Option 3: Aggression, Forensic psychology, or Addiction

4
Pearson Edexcel (9PS0)

  • Social, cognitive and biological psychology, and learning theories
  • Clinical psychology (compulsory)
  • One of criminological, child or health psychology
  • Psychological skills: methods, review of studies, issues and debates

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OCR (H567)

  • Research methods: planning, conducting, analysing and reporting research
  • Core studies: a classic and a contemporary study for each key theme
  • Issues in mental health (compulsory)
  • Two of child, criminal, environmental, and sport and exercise psychology

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WJEC Eduqas (A290QS)

  • Five psychological approaches, classic research and a contemporary debate
  • Principles of research and two personal investigations
  • Three of six behaviours: addictive, autistic spectrum, bullying and criminal behaviours, schizophrenia and stress
  • Controversies, such as cultural bias and the ethical costs of research
Assessment breakdown

A Level Psychology Assessment Structure

Understand exactly how you'll be assessed and prepare strategically for each component

Exam boards covered:AQAPearson EdexcelOCRWJEC Eduqas

AQA A Level Psychology (7182)

Written Exam

Paper 1 Introductory Topics in Psychology (social influence, memory, attachment, clinical psychology and mental health), Paper 2 Psychology in Context, Paper 3 Issues and Options in Psychology. Each mixes multiple choice, short answer and extended writing.

3 papers, 2 hours each
Paper 1: 96 marks, 33.3% (four sections of 24) | Paper 2: 96 marks, 33.3% (approaches 24, biopsychology 24, research methods 48) | Paper 3: 96 marks, 33.3% (issues and debates plus three options, 24 each)
Paper 3: one option from each of three groups - Relationships, Gender, Cognition and development | Schizophrenia, Eating behaviour, Stress | Aggression, Forensic psychology, Addiction

Pearson Edexcel A Level Psychology (9PS0)

Written Exam

Paper 1 Foundations in psychology, Paper 2 Applications of psychology, Paper 3 Psychological skills.

Papers 1 and 2: 2 hours 15 minutes each | Paper 3: 2 hours
Paper 1: 90 marks, 35% (70 on four topics, 20 issues and debates) | Paper 2: 90 marks, 35% (54 clinical, 36 option) | Paper 3: 80 marks, 30% (24 research methods, 24 studies, 32 issues and debates)
Paper 2 options: criminological, child or health psychology

OCR A Level Psychology (H567)

Written Exam

Research methods, Psychological themes through core studies, and Applied psychology.

3 papers, 2 hours each
Research methods: 90 marks, 30% | Core studies: 105 marks, 35% | Applied psychology: 105 marks, 35%
H567 final exams: summer 2028. Students starting in September 2027 or later take OCR's new A Level Psychology (H569)

OCR A Level Psychology (H569), first teaching September 2027

Written Exam

Paper 1 Research methods, Paper 2 Core studies in psychology, Paper 3 Applied psychology. This replaces H567 for students starting Year 12 in September 2027 or later.

3 papers, 2 hours each
Each paper: 80 marks, 33.3%
First exams: June 2029

WJEC Eduqas A Level Psychology (A290QS)

Written Exam

Component 1 Psychology: Past to Present, Component 2 Psychology: Investigating Behaviour, Component 3 Psychology: Implications in the Real World.

3 papers, 2 hours 15 minutes each
Each component: 100 marks, 33⅓%
Component 2 includes questions on two personal investigations carried out before the exam, using titles WJEC Eduqas sets for each exam year

Key Assessment Notes

  • All four A Level Psychology specifications are linear and assessed only by written exams - there is no coursework or NEA
  • AQA states that at least 25-30% of the marks assess research methods and at least 10% need maths at Level 2 or above
  • OCR is replacing A Level Psychology H567 with H569 from September 2027; H567 has its final exams in summer 2028, and resits in 2029 use H569
  • OCR AS Psychology (H167) has its final exams in June 2027
  • AQA updated 7182 for teaching from September 2025; A Level exams from June 2027 use the updated specification, in which Psychopathology is now Clinical Psychology and Mental Health
  • AQA Paper 3 tests three option topics, one from each group, so check which three your school teaches

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about A Level Psychology tutoring

We match tutors to AQA 7182, Pearson Edexcel 9PS0, OCR H567 and WJEC Eduqas A290QS. Tell us your board, specification code and option topics during onboarding and we match you with a tutor for that course, usually within 24 hours. Psychology content differs more between boards than most subjects, so the code really matters.

Yes. Research methods runs through every A Level Psychology specification; AQA, for example, states that at least 25-30% of the marks assess it. Your tutor can work on designs, sampling, variables, reliability, validity and ethics, then on statistics: calculating the sign test, choosing the right inferential test and interpreting results, using questions from your board's papers.

By changing how you plan. If your answers describe studies well (AO1) but evaluate with generic points, your tutor can show you how to build each evaluation point from evidence, explain why it matters and link it back to the question, then practise timing so evaluation is not squeezed in at the end. Practice uses past questions and mark schemes from your board.

All nine. AQA students take one topic from each of three groups: Relationships, Gender, or Cognition and development; Schizophrenia, Eating behaviour, or Stress; and Aggression, Forensic psychology, or Addiction. Each is worth 24 marks, alongside 24 marks on issues and debates. Tell us your three options during onboarding so your tutor prepares those.

Yes. OCR is replacing A Level Psychology H567 with a new specification, H569, for students starting in September 2027. H567 has its final exams in summer 2028, and anyone resitting in 2029 uses H569. OCR is also withdrawing AS Psychology (H167) after June 2027. If you are on H567 now, your course carries on as planned.

Yes, slightly. AQA updated its AS and A Level Psychology specification (7181 and 7182) for teaching from September 2025, and A Level exams from June 2027 use it. The three 2 hour papers of 96 marks remain. Content changes include renaming Psychopathology as Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, so check your notes and textbook match the current specification.

No. All four boards assess A Level Psychology through written exams only. WJEC Eduqas comes closest: Component 2 asks questions about two personal investigations you carry out before the exam, on titles the board sets for each year. A tutor can help you understand the methods and prepare for those questions, but the investigations themselves are done at school.

Some, and it is examined. AQA, for example, states that at least 10% of the marks need maths at Level 2 or above. That includes percentages, means and standard deviation, reading graphs and tables, and calculating the sign test. Tutoring can make these routine, so you stop losing easy marks in research methods questions.

You can start at any time, including a few weeks before the exams, and matching usually happens within 24 hours. Close to the exams it makes sense to focus on timed papers for your board, the research methods questions and the extended answers that cost you the most in mocks. Starting earlier leaves more time to cover your option topics.

Yes. IB Doctor's main programme is the IB Diploma, and IB Psychology has its own subject page. It is a different course from A Level Psychology, with HL and SL levels, different papers and an internal assessment, so make sure you book the course you actually take. If you are not sure which it is, check your timetable or ask your teacher.

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