Is anyone using the oxford psych book this year? Idk why my school changed from the grivas one since I hear it is better.... Would it be wise to get grivas as an additional textbook?
Yes! I bought this book and the StudyOn Jacarnda thing for Psychology. Some great news is that a teacher from Firbank wrote that text book who is the chief psychology assessor, so he trains a panel of 150+ people when marking the exams afterwards so its perfect. Firbank, Shelford and Brighton Grammar psychology students are all required to go to his lectures as well which will be helpful hopefully!
Does anyone here have a good psych dictionary to recommend for VCE?
Wouldn't know where to start but I wouldn't think it's necessary unless you mean glossary. I'm going to download a tonne of notes people have made as well as StudyOn and text book notes and combine them when making a glossary which will give me a perfect list and outline of the course.
What are your plans on the holidays for psych?
I may sound overly ambitious but I would like to get 2/3 of the course done between the last four weeks of my holidays through 2-3 hours a day. I'd rather put a bullet in my head doing that with other subjects but so far with the minimal amount of time studying I've done (coincidentally in detention for 3 hours) it was REALLY enjoyable and making notes for it with tonnes of colour and SmartART is just fun ... but time consuming. If you look at my signature you'll see that all my subjects are really content heavy so I think if I got 1-2 of them under my belt during the holidays and just studied them an hour a week throughout the year and spammed exams later on, I'd be ready! So I'm basically risking burning out in the hopes of not burning out.
I hope psych next year will be interesting and very rewarding to all of you!
Same! I'm so excited because I feel like it's the first subject where everything could go well for me. I have a fantastic teacher who works part-time so she is always available as she does like nothing around the school asides from psychology whom also makes notes, exams and practice SACS etc. (for a price LOL) but it still shows that she is a good teacher. With the subject in terms of content, I'm just plain excited for 90% of it as it just seems relatable to real life and may teach me some useful things.