TCE Psychology exam 2026Exam: Thu 19 Nov · TASC timetable
Your TCE Psychology exam:
When and how long
- Psychology9.00 am start3 h
TASC: morning exams commence at 9:00 am and afternoon exams at 1:30 pm. Your Notice of External Assessment (NoE) shows where and when you sit each exam.
Source: 2026 TASC written exam timetable (TASC), checked Wednesday 23 September 2026. Where a start time, reading time or duration isn't shown, the timetable doesn't publish it: check your personal timetable and the front of your paper.
What the exam covers
We don't have past-paper frequency data for this exam, so here is the course, module by module. Make sure every module is covered.
Night-before and exam-morning checklists
The night before
- Check your Notice of External Assessment (NoE) for where and when you sit each exam.[2]
- Pack a clear, sealable plastic bag: black or blue pens (not erasable), 2B pencils, sharpener, eraser, highlighters, a clear plastic ruler.[1]
- Pack your permitted calculator and a basic analogue watch (it goes on the desk, not your wrist).[1]
- Water only, in a clear plastic bottle up to 1500 mL.[1]
Exam-week survival kit: The last 7 days · The night before and exam morning · What to bring, and what's banned · How to use reading time · If you're sick or something goes wrong · Handling exam-week stress.
Last-week revision
TCE Psychology cram sheet
Key formulas, definitions and facts copied from our Psychology syllabus pages. One page when printed.
Unit 3: Individual Behaviour
A form of cognitive learning in which a solution to a problem appears suddenly and completely, through internal reorganisation of the problem rather than through gradual trial-and-error reinforcement.
An innate, automatic and involuntary response to a particular stimulus, occurring the same way every time and not changed by experience, such as withdrawing your hand from a hot surface.
A state of awareness that is distinctly different from normal waking consciousness in level of awareness, perception, thinking, emotion, time orientation or self-control, such as sleep or a drug-induced state.
Forgetting that occurs because the cues present when information was learned are absent at the time of recall. The memory is intact but inaccessible; providing the right cue (a place, mood or smell) can trigger recall.
Unit 4: Social and Developmental Psychology
Helping behaviour carried out for the benefit of another person with no expectation of personal reward, and sometimes at a cost to the helper, distinguishing it from helping motivated by self-interest.
A model that explains mental health and disorder as the result of interacting biological factors (genes, brain chemistry), psychological factors (thoughts, learning) and social factors (relationships, culture, stress).
A change in a person's behaviour or beliefs as a result of real or imagined group pressure, often to fit in or because the group is seen as a source of information.
In Freud's model, the id seeks immediate gratification of basic drives, the superego enforces moral standards, and the ego mediates between them and reality. Personality reflects how these three forces are balanced.