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Assessment Outline for HL

Types of Assessment

Weighting

External assessment (4 hours) 80%

Paper 1 (2 hours)

Section A:Three compulsory short answer questions.  One from the BLA, CLA and SLA.  You MUST answer each.

Section B:Three questions on the BLA, CLA and SLA. Students choose one question to answer in essay form.

(46 marks)

35%

Paper 2 (2 hour)

Fifteen questions from other topics in psychology. Students choose two question to answer in essay form.

(44 marks)

25%
Paper 3 (1 hour)

Three compulsory short-answer questions on Research Methods

(30 marks)

20%

Internal assessment

A report of a simple experimental study conducted by the student.

(28 marks)

20%