Health and Well-Being
The PsychExcel route uses examples including major depressive disorder and drug misuse or abuse.
New IB Psychology · First assessment 2027
Your IB Psychology 2027 hub
Use this page as the map. The new course asks you to connect Psychology content with concepts, contexts, research methods and assessment skills rather than treating them as isolated lists.
The four contexts used in the PsychExcel Section C bank
The current question bank is organised across four syllabus contexts.
Human Development
The PsychExcel route focuses on cognitive development, including developmental models and the development of self.
Human Relationships
The route includes group behaviour and social or romantic relationships.
Learning and Cognition
The route includes memory and other cognitive processes.
The six concepts
Six lenses, not six definitions to memorise
Bias, causality, change, measurement, perspective and responsibility help you interrogate psychological claims. The goal is to ask what each concept changes about the way you interpret evidence or explanations.
Learn each conceptTry this with any study
- What could be biased here?
- Can the study support a causal claim?
- What changes, and why?
- How was the construct measured?
- Which perspective is shaping the explanation?
- What responsibilities follow from this research?
Assessment support
Go straight to the task you need.
Paper 1
Use the Section C question bank, answer templates, handout and full masterclass.
Paper 1 hubPaper 2
Practise compare and contrast across practical research-method pairings.
Paper 2 hubInternal Assessment
Plan, justify and discuss a research proposal without losing the thread of the marking requirements.
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Want the full Section C practice bank?
It contains 228 practice questions across 38 areas of study and all six concepts.