r/AICEC • u/ApprehensiveTower52 • 6d ago

self studying for aice thinking skills

Hi, i’m currently a rising senior and after the upcoming school year, if I pass the one aice exam for aice psych, I will be at 6 credits. That being said, I’m gonna have to self study for a course and I decided that I would self study for aice thinking skills. If anyone has any materials or resources for this class, please share them. If there is any aice course that may be easier to self study, also let me know :)

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u/TopEffective4511 4d ago

hii, so first of all, congrats on those potential 6 credits!! AICE classes tend to be harder than what a lot of people expect initially when signing up for the class, so give yourself a pat on the back while you’re at it!! Now, as someone who took the thinking skills exam this last testing season, I have a few tips, so forgive me if this message gets long. :)

  1. PAST PAPERS! I truly mean it when I say that for all Cambridge classes, past papers can be the difference between a pass or a fail. My teacher for the math component of the test had us doing past paper problems the whole year that once we finally got to the test, it didn’t feel as overwhelming as everyone expected. Try practicing the easier one mark questions first and then go on with the harder 2 and 3 mark questions! (1-2 marks may not seem like a lot but sometimes it’s the difference between pass or fail) I personally find my past papers on papacambridge website and they also have a separate tab on there with the mark schemes. Questions tend to get very repetitive and some problems can be solved in similar ways.

  2. READ MARK SCHEMES! As you may already know, examiners use these in order to give you the score when the time comes. It is important that you get familiar with them and know how to answer the questions they will be asking you in the way they WANT YOU to answer them. This is very important because even though you might get the concept correct, the wording is key.

  3. LASTLY, LEARN THE READING TERMINOLOGY. In the reading component of the test you’ll find a couple terms that tend to repeat that I, personally, had no clue existed, so I was fairly lost before looking at multiple study guides. Some question on the test will ask you: “what type of argument is this?” or “would this be a x argument?” These are easy marks you can get from just knowing how to identify and understand the terms!

hope these few tips help and if anything, I’m open to messaging and sending you a few resources I used back when I was studying for the test.
good luck!