STEPHEN FRY

It might help if you work out a good exam technique - you know, think of the poor sod who has to mark the thing, and make it easy to read and follow.

Many years ago that got me through O level maths, my most hopeless subject.

Oh, and about the inablilty to apply yorself to study and revision - just tell yourself you'll do a tiny amount of something specific. Then your procrastinator self won't stop your other self from getting started. Then you might do more.

Thanks, I shall attempt to do something this afternoon. -crosses fingers-

Exams are always fun I have two As exams coming up, one on the 10th and one on the 14th. I failed them last year but with different subjects, if they were at any other time in the year it wouldn't be so bad but right now my concentration levels are really low.

Thankfully Psychology isn't going to be too bad because i'm just evaluating and ICT should be ok, it's similar to my GCSE level.

Good Luck with yours Masquerade!

Oh gawd I know. My memories of second year is a blur of studies revolving round things like health advice and encouragement to go to the dentist and use a condom. Loads of locus of control and self-efficacy stuff. Oh and stress. Bloody stress and pain management. *gritsteeth*

I've always had a preference for developmental and social psychology though by 2005 I'd developed a liking for cognitive as well. Studying cognitive modelling through application on computers helped it to gel more easily in my mind and made it more interesting then dry dusty textbooks with strange diagrams and dull sounding studies. Now I get muchmore excited about it.

Yeah I know the one you mean lauz_ma, I did it last January and it's the easiest one by far.

Amyl, that sounds exactly right... I'm not really interested in the things I'm getting taught about health psychology. At least we're doing criminal psychology as the last module, which will hopefull be useful for me whether it's interesting or not! With my personal experiences, I'm much more interested in abnormal psychology than anything else because I want to know why people have illnesses like depression.

Masquerade- I'm not sure, i have to evaluate the four studies that i did. A questionnaire, observation, collection of data looking at differences in two conditions and a collection of data involving two independant variables.

Paper 3 - Psychological Investigations. Man that was an easy paper! Wonderful. I do so enjoy research methods. I want to teach psychology at university, or at a college if I can't get into a uni. I'd love to teach research methods.

Though saying that you think that one was easy you should've seen the psychology exam I had to do at the end of my first year of uni which was at Bradford (then I transferred). I had to do a multiple choice exam. Seriously. Bradford are never going to get BPS approval if they keep doing stuff like that.


Amyl, that sounds exactly right... I'm not really interested in the things I'm getting taught about health psychology. At least we're doing criminal psychology as the last module, which will hopefull be useful for me whether it's interesting or not! With my personal experiences, I'm much more interested in abnormal psychology than anything else because I want to know why people have illnesses like depression.

No fair! I wanted to do the crime module so much because I was doing crime and deviance in sociology it would've helped so much but no instead I had to do the environment. *sulksandpouts*

I never did much abnormal psychology in my degree. It was among the final year options and they were highly popular. I went down the unpopular route of psychology with technology so I got to learn about educational technology, cognitive modelling, artifical intelligence and technological determinism (aka neo luddites). I loved it to bits, it was the best and it even inspired my dissertation.