Preparing for your IGCSE / A-Level / Degree-level Psychology? Or otherwise want to improve your psychology knowledge? You've viewed the right candidate to be tutored by :)

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I prefer using multiple modes of teaching to help my students understand as much as they can, so a mix of online classes, offline worksheets, quizzes and games will be prepared (based on your course syllabus requirements). I am also adept at helping students understand what to include in answering papers and writing essay assignments, especially in terms of psychological research and adhering to APA guidelines. So if you would like help with a specific assignment (rather than the whole subject), this is also the place for you :)

Shivani in a nutshell

I have two main aspects of teaching:

1. Based on the syllabus
So for A Levels, we would first go through the AS-Level portions outlined in syllabus, namely each of the four core areas of psychology: biological, cognitive, social and learning (also available in text). We would then progress to two A-Level choices from either clinical psychology, consumer psychology, health psychology or organisational psychology.
Although the main guidance would be as per the course outline, syllabus and marking schemes, I do believe that there is preliminary learning required to understand the concepts involved. Especially if you are completely new to the subject, and also when dealing with broader areas such as the branches of psychology (wherein one might assume that a certain branch is more 'correct' than the other, which is a misconception).

2. Through regular past exam paper questions + feedback
Past papers are an integral part of the exam preparation framework, hence we would be focusing on these not just in the exam season, but all throughout our sessions.
These would be distributed as either in-session work or homework, depending on how close to the exam we are.
Both homework and in-session work can be broadly separated into two types, where one would be the past exam questions/syllabus material, and the other pertain to understanding the core concepts of psychology better (and therefore to be able to grasp syllabus content more efffectively). The latter is not as closely related to the A Level 'exam' (but intricately relating to the A Level concepts and learning objectives), and will therefore be given further away from the exam dates. Homework in preparation for the exam season (closer to the dates) would usually be relating to exam formats, specimen/past paper questions etc.

I prefer to give homework at the end of the session, and then receive it a day or two before the next session, so that we can spend time going through and rectifying feedback in-session itself. This way, we would be able to cover more ground while making sure that any queries regarding the homework can be better clarified in person.

Hopefully this was able to clarify any doubts you may have had, and if any more arise then please feel free to contact me!

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