AQA A-Level Physical Education Active Recall Guide (7582)
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AQA A-Level Physical Education Active Recall Guide
Every topic of specification 7582 written as exam-style questions with the answers printed after them. 2,084 questions across 33 topics and 139 subtopics, covering both written papers in full.
- AQA
- A-Level
- Specification 7582
- 2,084 questions
Guide overview All 33 topics Sample questions Papers and weighting Look inside Questions and answers
What the exam asks of you
AQA A-Level Physical Education is two written papers of 2 hours, 105 marks each, 35 per cent apiece, plus a practical assessment worth 30 per cent. Paper 1 covers applied anatomy and physiology, skill acquisition and sport and society. Paper 2 covers exercise physiology, biomechanics, sport psychology and the role of technology.
There is no optional content on the written papers. Both are compulsory in full, which means the recall load is fixed and known from the start of Year 12.
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Paper 1 Factors affecting participation in physical activity and sport |
THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM THE NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM THE MUSCULO-SKELETAL SYSTEM AND MOVEMENT ANALYSIS ENERGY SYSTEMS SKILL, TRANSFER AND PRACTICE THEORIES OF LEARNING GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MEMORY THE EMERGENCE AND GLOBALISATION OF SPORT EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN SPORT |
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Paper 2 Factors affecting optimal performance in physical activity and sport |
DIET AND NUTRITION PREPARATION AND TRAINING METHODS INJURY PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION BIOMECHANICAL PRINCIPLES AND LEVERS LINEAR AND ANGULAR MOTION PROJECTILE MOTION AND FLUID MECHANICS PERSONALITY AND ATTITUDES AROUSAL AND ANXIETY AGGRESSION MOTIVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION SOCIAL FACILITATION AND GROUP DYNAMICS GOAL SETTING ATTRIBUTION THEORY SELF-EFFICACY AND CONFIDENCE LEADERSHIP STRESS MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT DEVELOPMENT OF ELITE PERFORMERS ETHICS AND VIOLENCE IN SPORT DRUGS IN SPORT SPORT, THE LAW AND COMMERCIALISATION TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT |
What is in the guide
All 33 topics
Every topic has its own page with its subtopics, what it covers and sample questions.
Sample questions
Taken from the guide. Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Heart health, fitness and cardiac output
What is a stroke?
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A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off. Brain cells in the affected area are starved of oxygen and begin to die. -
Lung volumes and minute ventilation
Define expiratory reserve volume.
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Expiratory reserve volume is the extra air that can be forcibly breathed out after a normal breath. A typical resting value is about 1,200 ml. -
Muscle fibre types and their characteristics
Why do fast glycolytic fibres have high stores of phosphocreatine and glycogen?
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Fast glycolytic fibres produce ATP anaerobically. Large stores of phosphocreatine and glycogen fuel the ATP-PC and anaerobic glycolytic systems. -
Planes, axes and sagittal plane joint actions
What is plantar flexion?
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Plantar flexion is the ankle movement that points the toes away from the shin. Plantar flexion increases the angle at the ankle. -
ATP and the aerobic energy system
What happens to pyruvic acid when oxygen is available?
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Pyruvic acid combines with coenzyme A to form acetyl coenzyme A. Acetyl coenzyme A then enters the Krebs cycle in the mitochondria. -
Characteristics of skill
Why is a skilled performer described as efficient?
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A skilled performer wastes no movement or energy. The action uses only the effort the task requires, so fatigue is delayed. -
Fitts and Posner's stages of learning
Describe a performer in the autonomous stage of learning.
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The autonomous performer carries out the skill automatically, with little conscious thought. Movements are fluent, consistent and efficient. -
Verbal and visual guidance
How can a demonstration be made more effective?
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The demonstration should be accurate, repeated and focused on one or two key points. Slow motion and a clear view of the key point help the learner see the detail.
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
Look inside
Questions for a subtopic print together and the answers for that section print after them.
- The Cardiovascular System81
- The Respiratory System54
- The Neuromuscular System55
- The Musculo-Skeletal System and Movement Analysis65
- Energy Systems95
- Skill, Transfer and Practice75
- Theories of Learning62
- Guidance and Feedback57
- Information Processing and Memory95
- The Emergence and Globalisation of Sport93
- Equal Opportunities in Sport76
- Diet and Nutrition63
- and 21 more
- Define tidal volume.
- What happens to tidal volume during exercise?
- Define inspiratory reserve volume.
- How does inspiratory reserve volume change during exercise, and why?
- Define expiratory reserve volume.
- How does expiratory reserve volume change during exercise?
- What is residual volume, and why is it important?
- How does residual volume change during exercise?
- Define minute ventilation and give its equation.
- Tidal volume is the volume of air breathed in or out per breath. A typical resting value is about 500 ml.
- Tidal volume increases during exercise. Deeper breaths draw on both the inspiratory and expiratory reserve volumes.
- Inspiratory reserve volume is the extra air that can be forcibly breathed in after a normal breath. A typical resting value is about 3,000 ml.
- Inspiratory reserve volume decreases during exercise. The larger tidal volume of each deeper breath takes up part of the reserve.
- Expiratory reserve volume is the extra air that can be forcibly breathed out after a normal breath. A typical resting value is about 1,200 ml.
- Expiratory reserve volume decreases slightly during exercise. More forceful breathing out uses some of this reserve as part of the tidal volume.
- Residual volume is the air left in the lungs after maximal expiration, about 1,200 ml. Residual volume keeps the alveoli open, so the lungs do not collapse.
- Residual volume stays roughly the same during exercise. The air cannot be breathed out, however hard the performer works.
- Minute ventilation is the volume of air breathed in or out per minute. Minute ventilation = tidal volume × breathing frequency.
questions
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Questions students ask first
Which topics are on which paper?
Paper 1 is the cardiovascular, respiratory, neuromuscular and musculo-skeletal systems, energy systems, skill acquisition, and the emergence and globalisation of sport with equal opportunities. Paper 2 is diet and nutrition, training, injury, biomechanics, the whole of sport psychology, and the contemporary issues including drugs, ethics, commercialisation and technology. The full breakdown is here.
Is the practical assessment covered?
No. The non-exam assessment is your performance or coaching in one activity plus a written and verbal analysis of performance, marked by your school and moderated by AQA. It is 30 per cent and it is your own.
What is in the guide is the theory examined on the two written papers, which is 70 per cent.
How much of this is actually science?
A large part of it. Cardiac output and the conduction system, gas exchange and oxyhaemoglobin dissociation, muscle fibre types and proprioceptors, the three energy systems and their thresholds, and the mechanics of levers, motion and projectiles.
Is there maths?
Some. Calculations of cardiac output, stroke volume, body mass index, heart rate zones, velocity and acceleration, and the interpretation of graphs and data tables. It is arithmetic and substitution rather than anything harder.
AQA A-Level Physical Education Active Recall Guide
Every question paired with its answer, grouped by topic and subtopic, ready to work in three passes.