Dedication

To my dearest wife Louise for her never-wavering support, and grandchild number eight, Harlowe, who was born while I was writing this!

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Get the most from this book

This book will help you revise for the Short Course Award (Unit 1), the Full Course Award (Unit 3) and the Double Award (Units 3 and 5). You can use the contents list on pages 2 and 3 to plan your revision, topic by topic. Make a note when you have:

1 revised and understood a topic

2 tested yourself.

You can also keep track of your revision by noting each topic heading in the book. You may find it helpful to add your own notes as you work through each topic. You can check your answers to the Check your understanding questions at the back of the book.

Track your progress

Exam tips

Throughout the book there are exam tips that explain how you can boost your final grade.

Key terms

Key terms are highlighted the first time they appear, with an explanation nearby in the margin.

Check your understanding

Use these questions at the end of each section to make sure that you have understood every topic.

Introduction

This book covers all of the content you will need to know for the three examinations which are included in the AQA PE GCSE. It is indicated within each topic whether the content is for the Double Course Award (D), Full Course Award (F) or Short Course Award (S), or for a combination of the examinations (DFS, DF or D). There is no content which only applies to the Short Course Award, and the Double Course Award content includes all of the Full Course Award content too. Topic 32 covers all of the additional content which has to be covered for the Double Award only.

The three examination papers

The three examination papers follow much the same format but details are as follows:

Short Course Award

•  Total for the paper = 40 marks.

•  Time allowed = 45 minutes.

•  Section A – Part 1 = 5 multiple choice questions (5 marks).

•  Section A – Part 2 = short answer questions (15 marks).

•  Section B – questions based on the preliminary material – the scenario (20 marks).

•  One question in Section B must be written in continuous prose and is also assessed against criteria judging your ability to:

   •  use good English

   •  organise information clearly

   •  use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.

Full Course Award

•  Total for the paper = 80 marks.

•  Time allowed = 1 hour 30 minutes.

•  Section A – Part 1 = 10 multiple choice questions (10 marks).

•  Section A – Part 2 = short answer questions (30 marks).

•  Section B – questions based on the preliminary material – the scenario (40 marks).

•  Two questions in Section B must be written in continuous prose and are also assessed against criteria judging your ability to:

   •  use good English

   •  organise information clearly

   •  use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.

Double Award

•  Total for the paper = 70 marks.

•  Time allowed = 1 hour 30 minutes.

•  Section A – Short answer questions (49 marks).

•  Section B – questions based on the preliminary material – the additional Double Award scenario (21 marks).

•  Two questions in Section B must be written in continuous prose and are also assessed against criteria judging your ability to:

   •  use good English

   •  organise information clearly

   •  use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.

The main differences between the Full Course and Double Award are that the Double Award does not have a multiple choice section and it has a separate and different scenario to the Full Award one.

Also, be aware that if you are entered for the Double Award you will be taking two examination papers on two different dates as you have to sit the Full Course Award paper too!

Examination technique

All of the following apply to all three of the examinations:

•  You must answer in black pen and write your answers within the margins. The reason for this is that all pages of the papers have bar codes on them. These are scanned at the examination board and sent out to examiners for them to mark electronically. Black ink shows up clearly and anything written outside of the margin does not get picked up by the scanning machine!

•  Write clearly and legibly. The examiner has to be able to read what you have written.

•  Read the whole paper through carefully before you start. Consider this to be your ‘warm-up’ as it will give you time to clear your thoughts and get a general ‘feel’ for the paper overall.

•  You do not have to answer the questions in the order they are written. Answering those you are most confident about first should get you off to a good start.

•  Read the question very carefully before starting to answer it. Make sure that you are answering the question that was asked and that you have answered in full. Be sure to give examples if they are asked for. This is very common, especially in the short answer questions.

•  Look out for the questions which require the use of good English – this will be clearly indicated on the question. You cannot use bullet points to answer these questions as they must be written in continuous prose.

•  Check all of your answers very carefully when you have finished. This is your ‘cool-down’ when you make sure that you have answered correctly, fully and clearly. Sometimes, just adding one more additional word to your answer can make the difference between it being seen as ‘too vague’ (the most common reason given by marking examiners for not giving marks) and being detailed and specific enough to get the full marks possible.

•  Make use of all of the time you have been given – there is enough time for you to answer all of the questions (and it is crucial that all are answered) so if you have additional time at the end use this for the checking process and do it thoroughly.

General tips

You need to revise everything thoroughly. There is a lot of content and it is not possible for it all to be examined in one exam. This means that you will revise a lot of content which you will not be asked a question on. However, the examiner can ask a question on any of the content so you must be prepared for any topic, or topics, to come up.

The examination is usually fairly early on in the series of examinations (usually around the second or third week in May) so you have to time your revision schedule carefully. Putting together a revision schedule just after Easter would be a good idea. This book is designed to take you through all of the content in the order it appears in the exam specification. Everything that could be asked is included and you do not need to know any additional topics. Revising too much content is as bad as revising too little.

Finally, good luck in all your exams!