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.

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