Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education

March 1998 5-a-day

Every sheet in March 1998

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st March 1998State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
  2. 2nd March 1998A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
  3. 3rd March 1998Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
  4. 4th March 1998Name the structure that separates the left and right sides of the heart.
  5. 5th March 1998Which blood cells contain haemoglobin and carry oxygen around the body?
  6. 6th March 1998What is a micronutrient?
  7. 7th March 1998Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
  8. 8th March 1998Which model, the lever model or the planes and axes model, is more suited to analysing a rotational movement such as a hip turn in a golf swing, and why?
  9. 9th March 1998Name the test used to measure power.
  10. 10th March 1998A tennis player pulls up sharply while sprinting for a wide shot, feeling a sudden sharp pain in the back of their thigh. Which injury is most likely, and what tissue is damaged?
  11. 11th March 1998Define 'gamesmanship'.
  12. 12th March 1998Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
  13. 13th March 1998Define arousal in a sporting context.
  14. 14th March 1998Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
  15. 15th March 1998State the direction oxygen moves during gaseous exchange at the alveoli.
  16. 16th March 1998Name one team sport in which players use both aerobic and anaerobic exercise during a single match.
  17. 17th March 1998Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
  18. 18th March 1998State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
  19. 19th March 1998Name the test used to measure flexibility.
  20. 20th March 1998Why might a training programme that never changes exercises or intensity risk breaking two principles of training at once?
  21. 21st March 1998Give one reason a coach might carry out fitness testing at the start of a season.
  22. 22nd March 1998Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
  23. 23rd March 1998Define a closed skill.
  24. 24th March 1998A fly-half makes a strong, fair, full-blooded tackle that is completely within the rules and has no intent to injure. Is this aggression or assertion?
  25. 25th March 1998Identify the agonist and antagonist muscle pair that works at the knee joint.
  26. 26th March 1998State roughly how long the ATP-PC system can supply energy for before it is depleted.
  27. 27th March 1998Give one physical benefit of taking part in physical activity.
  28. 28th March 1998What is meant by 'body composition'?
  29. 29th March 1998Which axis is paired with the frontal plane?
  30. 30th March 1998A PEP starts with 2 training sessions a week. If progressive overload is applied by adding 1 extra session every 4 weeks, how many sessions per week will the performer be doing by week 9?
  31. 31st March 1998State the main energy system developed by continuous training.