AQA Psychology - Structured Essay consolidation [updated 2025 specification]

This is a tried and tested resource that has been updated for the 2025 change in specification - AQA Psychology, A-Level.

The resource is a set of four consolidation booklets - one for each section on paper one:

• ‘Attachment’
• ‘Social Influence’
• ‘Clinical Psychology & Mental Health’
• ‘Memory’
  Each PDF document (easy to print without the sections moving) includes the sub-sections for each unit, and promts for students to summarise the A01 & A03 for potential essay questions.

How I use the resource:

• Set each booklet for students to work though independently, with a specific date for completion.
• Choose a ‘tricky’ 16-marker from a past paper and set this for the students to answer in timed / exam conditions, within the lesson. This helps to build confidence in knowing that although a question may be worded differently, the summary plan that has been produced, can still be applied.
• Use as a starter / plenary whereby students give their consolidation for a particular section, to a partner. Each then takes it in turns to verbally recite to the other, without looking at the page. The student holding their partners consolidation page can prompt for understanding if they forget a section.