Daily Practice · GCSE Physical Education
January 2023 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2023State one drawback of using video technology to support officiating decisions.
- 2nd January 2023A gymnast is told 'well done, that landing was perfectly balanced.' Classify this feedback by source and by tone.
- 3rd January 2023Explain how breathing control can lower a performer's arousal.
- 4th January 2023Name the structure that separates the left and right sides of the heart.
- 5th January 2023Which blood cells contain haemoglobin and carry oxygen around the body?
- 6th January 2023What is a micronutrient?
- 7th January 2023Name the three planes of movement used in movement analysis.
- 8th January 2023Which 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?
- 9th January 2023Name the test used to measure power.
- 10th January 2023A 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?
- 11th January 2023Define 'gamesmanship'.
- 12th January 2023Give one argument against the use of PEDs that is not directly about health.
- 13th January 2023Define arousal in a sporting context.
- 14th January 2023Give one reason a performer might use mental rehearsal while recovering from injury.
- 15th January 2023State the direction oxygen moves during gaseous exchange at the alveoli.
- 16th January 2023Name one team sport in which players use both aerobic and anaerobic exercise during a single match.
- 17th January 2023Why might a very active athlete need a higher daily energy intake than an inactive person of the same body size?
- 18th January 2023State the order of fulcrum, load and effort in a first-class lever.
- 19th January 2023Name the test used to measure flexibility.
- 20th January 2023Why might a training programme that never changes exercises or intensity risk breaking two principles of training at once?
- 21st January 2023Give one reason a coach might carry out fitness testing at the start of a season.
- 22nd January 2023Why is the relationship between sport, sponsorship and the media described as a 'triangle' rather than a straight line?
- 23rd January 2023Define a closed skill.
- 24th January 2023A 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?
- 25th January 2023Identify the agonist and antagonist muscle pair that works at the knee joint.
- 26th January 2023State roughly how long the ATP-PC system can supply energy for before it is depleted.
- 27th January 2023Give one physical benefit of taking part in physical activity.
- 28th January 2023What is meant by 'body composition'?
- 29th January 2023Which axis is paired with the frontal plane?
- 30th January 2023A 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?
- 31st January 2023State the main energy system developed by continuous training.