Year 12 Psychology class slow progress due to teacher ill. How to avoid poor exam result?

[Daniel98]

Hi,
I am a newbie to mums net. But am hoping you good people can help me.

Our daughter is in sixth form, year 12. She aims to go to university.

Her class in Psychology is far behind in the syllabus, because of staffing problems
(lessons cancelled because of long term illness of first teacher. The excellent supply teacher will leave next term, as the main teacher supposedly will be back again)
I am worried that her exam results will be poor. I doubt that they will cover the full syllabus in time for the exam. Despite the school being aware and trying their best. But, normally, students cannot resist exams, I understand.
So, she will have poor A Level in Psychology. This will wipe out her chances for a top university, especially if she wanted to study this subject. But, eve if she went for biology, I think.
What can I do?

Thanks a lot
Daniel

I'm not sure this is going to sound v. helpful, but several years ago, ds1 was in a similar situation, and I'm afraid he ended up having to 'teach' himself a large part of his history AS course. I don't think he'd ever done so much private study!

You could get the AS level Psychology revision guide for the relevant exam board, to allow your dd to identify and plug any gaps. Also, if you are still concerned, it might be worth trying to get a tutor for a few months?

has she got a textbook for the AS and what exam board is she doing?
I teach psychology and would say, there is sections which she could teach herself. I teach the AQA A course and the textbooks are fairly good so just working through the books would help. There is a good website (for teachers) called www.recourcd.com which has a resources section. Some lovely teachers have made booklets which she could download and work through using the textbook. She could also access the past papers (and mark schemes) on the exam board websites which should help her develop her exam schemes. Please feel free to pm me particularly if she is doing AQA A specification.

Help her as much as you can. Go through the text book with her, make small post it notes and get her to read a few each day.
Make sure she is familiar with all the case studies and regurgitate the text book, I can't stress this enough.
If I can remember correctly all the exam is text book based.
Get her to answer some of the essay questions either find on the boards website or sometimes at the back of the text book.
I taught Sociology and did cover for Psychology it was all text book related. my ds2 also did it and had cover teachers. It was bad though as a friend committed suicide from his class and he didn't complete.
Small chunks of information won't be too much for her after other homework. I also had a single parent with very limited time, I advised her to just read little bits when baby slept, she got an A I was so proud of her.