March 2025 Psychology subject update | Pearson qualifications

March 2025 Psychology subject update

Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 UTC 2025

Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Psychology March 2025 subject update.

Hello colleagues,

As we approach the exam season in May we know that teachers and students will be increasingly focused on preparing for this, and we want to help to share some key ideas around exam technique. This update contains news of some new video resources which we have started to produce for A Level and IAL psychology, with GCSE videos to follow shortly. Over the next month we will be adding to the playlists linked below and look forward to feedback from teachers and students to inform future resources.

There is also news here of training available, examiner vacancies and some great free resources for use in the classroom.

As ever please don't hesitate to get in touch by email or book a video call with me using the links below if there's anything I can help with.

Best wishes, 

Tim Lawrence

Psychology Subject Advisor 

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If you have any questions, then please do contact me:

☎ Call: 0344 463 2535

✉ Email: teachingpsychology@pearson.com

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This update includes:

  • Free video and audio resources: multimedia resources from the Educational Recording Agency.
  • Become an examiner: links to examiner vacancy information for A Level, IAL and GCSE psychology.
  • Follow us on social media: including examiner vacancies, summer 2026 provisional exam timetables, and sources of information and support.
  • A Level Psychology: upcoming free online training and new exam technique videos for students and teachers.
  • GCSE Psychology: upcoming free online training in March and news of video resources coming soon.
  • International A Level: key dates, new exam technique videos for students and teachers and news of examWizard support for IAL Psychology coming soon.

Transform your teaching with multimedia resources from the Educational Recording Agency (ERA)
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The ERA Licence provides seamless access to television and radio recordings, offering a single point of clearance for the rights needed to create and use authentic media resources in your classroom. With ERA’s free video streaming platform, licensed institutions can explore a rich library of curriculum-mapped TV and radio clips tailored to GCSE, AS, and A-level teaching. To access this free resource registration is required - but is quick and simple. State schools in England are licensed under a central agreement with the DfE and the vast majority of independent schools also hold a current ERA Licence.

There are a large number of videos suitable for use in psychology teaching available, including Michael Moseley's The Brain: A Secret History series.

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Become an examiner: all Edexcel psychology qualifications

A reminder that we are recruiting examiners, or Assessment Associates as they are formaly known, for GCSE, A Level and International A Level psychology - see the links below for more details and to complete an online application.

There are opportunities for teachers at all stages in their careers, and full training provided. In addition to the pay, teachers can gain a great deal of understanding of the demands of exam questions through this work and many find it extremely useful in informing their teaching.

Find out more and apply online

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Follow us on social media

A reminder of our Facebook and X accounts which many teachers follow to keep up to date with key announcements.
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A Level Psychology
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Free online training

See the link below for all our online training opportunities.

Publicly available recordings of past training events will now be added to the YouTube playlist linked below.

Recordings of training which uses locked exam materials (past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports from the past 12 months) will be available through locked documents (requiring an Edexcel Online teacher login to download) available under 'Past training content' on the 'teaching and learning materials' page - see link below.

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View past training content including links to training reserved for teachers
New short exam technique videos aimed at learners

There is a great deal of helpful advice for students contained within examiner reports, including examples of candidates' responses with examiner commentary explaining why marks were and weren't awarded. However we know that in general students struggle to access this information. We have therefore started to produce short videos focusing on one question at a time and sharing key feedback, which we hope students and teachers will find useful. These are between three and seven minutes long and could also be shown in the classroom.

Below is one example video, and a link to the playlist on YouTube. You can also give feedback on specific videos or general feedback on these, and/or make requests for future videos, using the form linked below.

'Your investigation' questions - Edexcel A Level / IAL Psychology
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GCSE Psychology
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Upcoming 'preparing for our exams' training

20 March 2025 at 16:00-17:30 GMT

This free online event, created by our Senior Examiner is intended to support teachers who are delivering Pearson Edexcel Pearson Edexcel GCSE Psychology. The trainer will be covering strategies and insights to prepare your learners for their examinations.

You will:

  • discuss the requirements of mark schemes, including those relating to extended response questions
  • identify common mistakes made by candidates and discuss how to avoid them.
  • identify effective teaching strategies to prepare students for various types of exam questions, including multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions
  • explore best practices for marking and providing constructive feedback to students
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All free online training

See the link below for all our online training opportunities.

Publicly available recordings of past training events will now be added to the YouTube playlist linked below.

Recordings of training which uses locked exam materials (past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports from the past 12 months) will be available through locked documents (requiring an Edexcel Online teacher login to download) available under 'Past training content' on the 'teaching and learning materials' page - see link below.

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View past training content including links to training reserved for teachers
Coming soon: new exam technique videos for teachers and students

There is a great deal of helpful advice for students contained within examiner reports, including examples of candidates' responses with examiner commentary explaining why marks were and weren't awarded. However we know that in general students struggle to access this information. 

We therefore plan to produce a new set of short videos aimed at students as well as teachers, sharing key messages and advice from past examiner reports (we won't publicly share reports from papers from the past 12 months though).

Below is a video from 2023 on how to tackle the 12 mark question on Pape 2 which has proven popular, a link to the playlist which we will shortly be adding to, and a link to the form which you can use to make requests for future videos.

Edexcel GCSE Psychology exam technique 12 mark questionnaire question
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International A Level Psychology
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Key dates for international qualifications
5 March January 2025 IAL results to centres.
6 March January 2025 IAL results to candidates.
13 March January 2025 IAL examiner reports released to teachers with EOL logins one week after results day.
21 March Entry deadline for International GCSE and International A Level for May/June 2025 exams to avoid late fees.
22 April 'Late fees' (double fees) for May/June 2025 exam entries become 'higher late fees' (triple fees).
14 August International A Level results to candidates.
21 August International GCSE results to candidates.
New short exam technique videos aimed at learners

There is a great deal of helpful advice for students contained within examiner reports, including examples of candidates' responses with examiner commentary explaining why marks were and weren't awarded. However we know that in general students struggle to access this information. We have therefore started to produce short videos focusing on one question at a time and sharing key feedback, which we hope students and teachers will find useful. These are between three and seven minutes long and could also be shown in the classroom.

Below is one example video, and a link to the playlist on YouTube. Four of our first five videos have used questions from UK A Level exams, but we have selected questions on IAL content, and given the question and mark scheme desgin is the same for both qualifications these are equally relevant to IAL students and teachers..

You can also give feedback on specific videos or general feedback on these, and/or make requests for future videos, using the form linked below.

Research methods scenario questions Edexcel IAL Psychology (and UK A Level)
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examWizard coming soon for IAL psychology

examWizard is our free tool for locating past papers and building mock exam papers, assessments and practice question banks from a searchable database of past paper questions. It is not available for all qualifications due to the amount of time required to upload questions, and IAL psychology has not previously been supported.

We are happy to announce that IAL psychology questions will become available in examWizard shortly - we anticipate this will be some time in April 2025. We will share more information on this tool once the questions are 'live'.

Thank you to those IAL teachers who took the time to complete our 'examWizard expression of interest form' a few months ago!

 

Subject advisor

Tim Lawrence

Psychology and international Science

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