Every year I review AQA's examiner reports. These are the Social Influence questions that tripped students up, why marks were lost, and a worked Asch example, plus a free workbook to test yourself.

If you're studying Social Influence, you already know Milgram (1963). It's probably the single most cited study on the entire specification, and it's also one of the most heavily evaluated, mostly with the same handful of AO3 points: it lacks temporal validity, it raises ethical concerns, the sample was culturally narrow. All fair points. All slightly tired by the time you're the fortieth student your examiner has read this year. But if you want an evaluation point that makes

Over nearly six years of tutoring AQA Psychology, I've heard every paragraph structure going — PEEL, PECL, PET, PEC- but students still consistently struggle with the same thing: developing genuine evaluation and a logical chain of reasoning. To reach Band 4 (the top band for any essay), your evaluation needs to be "thorough and effective." But what does that actually mean in practice? Download my FREE essay planning grid! (link below) 🎯 What Does "Thorough and Effective" Ev

It's hot. School's over. You want to pack those textbooks away and not look at them again until September. I get it. But every year, I watch students head into Year 13 and get blindsided by how fast it moves, and suddenly it's the 1st of May, exams are two weeks away, and there's a lot of catching up to do that didn't need to happen. So from someone who's sat this A-Level and taught it for nearly six years: summer is a genuinely great time to set yourself up for Year 13. Not