AQA A Level Psychology Exam Skills Toolkit – a practical, student-friendly set of exam skills cards designed to help students improve their exam technique, application and evaluation.

This resource is ideal for AQA A Level Psychology students and can be used for classroom teaching, revision, intervention, independent study or as a laminated exam-skills toolkit.

What’s included:

BUNG Exam Technique – a simple strategy for breaking down and understanding exam questions.

How to Tackle Any Exam Question – a clear DECODE, IDENTIFY, PLAN, WRITE framework.

Planning Essay Answers – models how students can pick apart a question and select relevant AO1 and AO3 content.

AO2 Application – teaches students how to identify relevant information, name the psychological concept and explicitly link it to the scenario.

PEEL Sentence Starters – useful sentence starters for developing evaluation and constructing effective paragraphs.

PEEL Example Paragraph – a worked example showing students what a developed evaluation paragraph looks like.

GRAVE Evaluation Mnemonic – Generalisability, Reliability, Application, Validity and Ethics.

GRENADE Evaluation Mnemonic – Gender Bias, Reductionism and Holism, Ethical Issues, Nature and Nurture, Application, Determinism and Free Will, and Ethnocentrism.

Peer Marking Grid – supporting students in assessing knowledge, accuracy, evaluation, focus and terminology.

Why use this resource?

The cards are designed to reduce information overload and give students memorable, repeatable strategies they can use across different AQA Psychology questions.

They are particularly useful for:

Exam preparation
Revision
Improving AO2 application
Developing AO3 evaluation
Essay-writing practice
Independent revision
Peer and self-assessment
Classroom display or intervention

The cards can be printed, laminated and kept together on a ring for students to use as an exam-skills toolkit throughout the course.

Suitable for KS5 and A Level Psychology.