AQA A-level Psychology · from Year 9
The real A-level course in short lessons, with the pull of a ranked game: a rating that climbs when you beat hard questions, streaks, daily quests. Parents set the time limit and see everything.
For students
No cartoon owls. The same studies and the same exam questions sixth-formers get, in pieces small enough to finish on the bus.
You start at 800. Every question has a rating too. Beat one above your level and you climb. Bronze, Silver, Gold, on up to Grandmaster.
Hit your daily goal and the streak grows. Earn a freeze every five days, so one missed day does not wipe it out.
A wrong answer still earns XP, and getting it right on the second go earns a comeback bonus. A run of right answers earns more.
How many ordinary people would give a stranger a 450-volt shock because a man in a lab coat said so? Guess, then find out. Lessons open with the surprise.
Finish a unit and its challenge unlocks: twelve questions, 70% to pass. Plus daily quests and a weekly table.
A countdown sits at the top of every screen. Only time you are actually working counts, and when it runs out you can finish the question you are on.
For parents
You create the account, add your child and set the rules. They sign in on their own phone with a username you chose.
Minutes for school days and weekends, the hours the app is open, and a pause switch. Enforced on our side, so it cannot be switched off on the phone.
Minutes a day, lessons finished, a rating trend, what they are strong at and what they find harder, broken down by the skills examiners mark.
New lessons arrive each school week and stop for the holidays, following the school's term dates. You choose how many a week and whether they may work ahead.
There is no messaging of any kind. On the weekly table your child appears as a made-up handle such as QuietFalcon42, and you can hide them from it.
Every question returns for review at widening gaps: days, then weeks, then months. Strong topics stay strong and weak ones come up more often.
We hold an email for you and a first name for them. Download everything or delete the account from your dashboard at any time.
How a lesson works
Each one is a technique with evidence behind it: predicting before you are told, recalling instead of rereading, and spacing practice out.
A puzzle or a prediction. Being surprised by the answer is what makes it stick.
One idea per card, about 60 words, with a diagram where a picture does it better. Every card can be read aloud.
A question straight after each idea: choose, match, sort, put in order, fill the gap. All by tapping.
Use the idea on a situation you have not seen, then weigh up the evidence. These are the skills that carry most of the marks.
A question in the style of the real papers. Answer it, see a full-mark answer, and mark yourself against the mark points.
What you learned returns tomorrow, next week and next month, mixed in with newer work.
The course
Written to the current specification, version 1.4. At two lessons a school week, a student who starts in October finishes all six units in July. Dates below follow More House School's 2026/27 terms.
What psychology is, how experiments work, and how to judge a claim.
Conformity, obedience, Asch and Milgram, and why some people refuse.
How memory is built, why we forget, and whether eyewitnesses can be trusted.
How babies bond with carers, Bowlby and Ainsworth, and what early care changes.
Six rival answers to what makes people who they are, from Pavlov to Maslow.
Designing a fair study, sampling, ethics, and making sense of the numbers.
No new psychology units. Review and ranked practice carry on, so the work is still there after GCSEs.
Biopsychology, clinical psychology, more research methods, issues and debates, and the option topics your school teaches.
Past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports from AQA are linked inside the app, with a guide to which sections match the units above.
For readers who find reading hard
Designed with dyslexia and language difficulties in mind from the first screen, not added on afterwards.
Every card and every question has a speaker button. It uses the voice built into your phone or browser.
Answers are chosen, matched and sorted. Long answers can be spoken or written on paper, then self-marked.
Short sentences, one idea each. The real technical terms, each defined the first time it appears.
Larger text, extra line and letter spacing, and a warm paper background as an alternative to dark.
Early access
Yes. The lessons follow AQA's A-level specification and use the same studies, terms and exam question styles. What changes is the delivery: small steps, plain sentences and a lot of practice. Psychology needs no earlier course to build on, so nothing is skipped by starting here. The A-level itself is still taken in Years 12 and 13: this is a head start, not a fast track.
No. It is a head start and a way to practise. If your child takes Psychology in the sixth form they will still be taught the course. They will just have met a good part of it already.
Those are GCSE years, and GCSEs come first. At two lessons a week the Year 9 course ends in July, and no new psychology units follow until the sixth form. Review questions keep coming back at widening gaps and ranked practice stays open, so a few minutes a week is enough to hold on to it. You can also slow the pace to one lesson a week and spread the course over two years.
You choose the minutes allowed on school days and at weekends, and the hours the app is open. Your child sees the minutes left at the top of every screen. Only active time counts. When it runs out they can finish the question in front of them, then the app closes until tomorrow. Days you set to zero never break a streak.
It borrows what games do well, such as clear goals, quick feedback and visible progress, and it deliberately stops there. There is no endless feed, nothing to buy, no notifications, and a daily limit that you control and that we enforce.
A phone, tablet or computer with a web browser. Nothing to install. It can be added to the home screen like an app.
A first name, a username, a password we cannot read, their answers and the time they spend. No email address, no date of birth, no photo, no location. Read how we handle data.
More House School, Frensham, for 2026/27. New lessons pause in the holidays and resume when term starts. Other school calendars can be added.