The I/O Psychology Exam Prep Pack

This is not a question bank, and it is worth saying so first. There is a free Android app with flashcards and practice questions, and this pack does not contain them. What it contains is the part a question bank cannot give you: what happens to your answer after you have written it.

Most students who fail an exam in this field did not fail because they did not know the material. They failed because they wrote the wrong shape of answer, or because they revised in a way that produced recognition rather than recall. Those are two entirely different problems from not knowing, and neither is fixed by more flashcards.

Inside: the four levels examiners mark against and why almost everybody stops at the first; the four question types with the shape each answer needs; why re-reading feels like revision and is among the least effective things you can do; and the single highest-return piece of preparation there is, which takes one afternoon and converts every describe answer you can already write into an evaluate answer.

There is a six-week plan written on the assumption that you started late, a section on the exam day itself including what to do when your mind goes blank, and a section on resitting that separates the three reasons people fail, because they need three different responses and the second is routinely mistaken for the first.

What it is not: content. It assumes you have a syllabus and access to the material, and marking schemes differ between institutions.

9 pages, A4, formatted for printing. Delivered as a PDF immediately after payment.