• Question: What grades in your GCSEs to become a psychologist

    Asked by anon-233868 to Phill, Liam, Kohinoor, Karolina, Jack, Debbie on 15 Nov 2019.
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      Jack Joyce answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I can’t remember exactly how I did, but all of my GCSEs were A*-C grades. My path to becoming a psychologist was first through college, then university. The GCSE grades that I got just meant that I could go to college… and even there I didn’t do psychology! I did English Language & Literature, Computer Science, and Business Studies.

      I would say that to go to college, and university to then become a psychologist you’d need at least a C grade in English and Maths… though obviously the better grades you get the easier it is to do all of those things!

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      Debbie Kinsey answered on 15 Nov 2019: last edited 15 Nov 2019 12:09 pm

      I think your GCSEs mainly matter for getting to the next thing, so once at was at university and working to be a psychologist no one ever asked me what my GCSEs were. So the GCSE grades you need are the ones you need to do the A-levels you want. But it can help to get good grades to show universities what you can do before you get your A-level results, and they sometimes want you to have at least a C in English & Maths.

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      Liam Wignall answered on 16 Nov 2019:

      you’re normally required to have grade C in maths and English, but there are lots of routes to becoming a psychologist. When you study your alevels and your degree, GCSEs become less important as well (but you should still work hard on GCSEs to be able to study the alevels you want!)

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