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  • You are invited to participate in a practice essay-based exam!

    Practice writing tests is one of the best ways to prepare for your final exams. This is not just because you are practicing a skill of timed writing, but because it helps consolidate your memory of the material! 

    For example, see Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x.

    This research shows that repeated testing improves memory and test performance over and above repeated studying, even when no feedback is provided on test results. 

    We strongly encourage you to take these tests under exam conditions. This includes:

    1. Taking the exam in a quite space (ideally where you'll take the real exam), putting away your phone and other distractions
    2. Practicing how and where you will save your exam
    3. Giving yourself a strict time limit of two hours, and practicing uploading your answer

    Although you will not receive individual feedback on your answer, your module organisers will provide advice in-module for how to answer exam questions like these. We also recommend that you submit your answer to Studiosity for feedback on your writing. 

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    • Year 3 Semester A: Essay-Based Practice Exam
      The following are practice exam papers for PSY324 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, PSY333 Nature, Nurture, Mental Health, PSY338 Child & Adolescent Mental Health, and PSY314 Forensic Psychology. 

      You will be given the choice of answering one one practice exam question for each module. Note, however, that you will have a choice of two questions in your final exam. 

    • Year 3 Semester A Practice Exams Assignment
      • Please Refresh the page at the start time of the exam to access this link
      • Press Begin to start your timer, you must upload your file before the timer is out.  
      • Please download the question paper within the submission link. Write your answer within the same file, and upload it as your final answer.
      • You must submit by uploading your answer to QMPlus. You have 2 hours to write your answer and a 30 minute ‘submission window’ to upload your work to QMPlus.  Late submissions will be possible for up to 10 minutes but will incur a Late Mark Penalty deduction of 10%. Any attempts after the Late Submission period will not be possible. 
      • You must also email a copy within the submission period to sbbs-psy-onlineassessment@qmul.ac.uk, the module code must match the relevant email address. 
      • Please check you are not uploading a blank document or the wrong file, this cannot be replaced after the submission has closed.
      • There is no Turnitin report to view.
      • Your submission must be in Word or PDF (.doc, .docx .pdf) file format only.
      • Your answers must be your own work, and you must ensure that you do not break any of the rules in the Academic Misconduct Policy
      • No marks will be released after the assessment.

      *NOTE: You will be provided with TWO question options in the final exam. However, most of these practice exams only offers one option. You are invited to write a second practice question to test your knowledge and practice writing in exam conditions.