Psychology GCSE

Applications Open: - 26th November 2025

Applications Close: - 16th January 2026

Entry Requirements: - Each course has its own entry requirements, please see course descriptions or the prospectus for details.

How to Apply: - Please apply via KentChoices

PLEASE PICK THREE COURSES AND ONE RESERVE

This is a full course GCSE taken across one year. Assessment is by final examination, split 50/50 across two exams. The course follows two units of study, with one exam for each. Unit one is “Making sense of other people” and covers aspects of non-verbal communication, development of personality, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination and research methods. Unit two is “Understanding Other People” and covers aspects of learning, social influence, sex and gender, aggression and research methods.This course is a wonderful introduction to Psychology and supplements a number of other subjects across the humanities and sciences. The course is ideally suited to students wanting to continue their study at level 3 in a social science or humanity subject or who have an interest in psychology or how and why people are the way they are.

No formal entry qualifications are required for Level 2 courses.

It is a good foundation for making sense of other people and their behaviour and so links well to any course or career that deals with people. The science skills and knowledge gained also cross over to other science and social science subjects.