SUPER-CURRICULAR RESOURCES

Universities, particularly competitive ones, are not just looking for students who perform well in exams. They want to see genuine curiosity: evidence that you engage with your subject beyond the classroom because you find it interesting, not because you have been told to.

Super-curricular activities are anything that deepens your understanding of your subject outside of the A Level specification. For Psychology, this might mean listening to a podcast, watching a lecture, reading around a particular area of interest, or exploring research that goes beyond what appears in your textbook. The key is that you can talk about it: what you engaged with, what you found interesting, and what questions it raised for you.

Below you will find a selection of resources I have curated for my Psychology students, covering books, podcasts, websites, and talks. These are the kinds of things I have recommended to students for years, and they are a genuine starting point for building the kind of wider engagement that makes a personal statement stand out.