GCSE Physical Education
Questions
& Model Answers

Not a bank of questions with the answers printed underneath. The three banded responses are the starting point, not the output: what follows each one is the discriminator, named out loud, then the questions you actually ask to move a student from the first answer to the last, then the mark scheme that shows what each line was worth.

The failure this book is built against is the one every PE department knows. The subject content asks for theory connected to practice, and a book that asks *what aerobic endurance is* has not done that — so 74% of the marks here are set in a named sporting situation, with the floor at 70% enforced on every build. A question with a performer in it is earning application marks by definition, and the objectives are measured that way rather than asserted.

The anatomy is the part that has to be right, and it is checked rather than trusted. Every muscle, joint, bone, plane, axis and lever class printed anywhere in the book is looked up from one table, and a checker also hunts for anatomy that was typed instead — which is how a wrong antagonist would otherwise reach a page. The lever diagrams are generated *from* that same table, so a diagram cannot disagree with the text beside it, and the heart-rate graphs are drawn on a real grid so a value can be read off.

That table is then checked against itself a second way, because a table can be internally consistent and still wrong. Mutation testing showed it: moving abduction into the sagittal plane and putting the fibula in the knee both left every assertion passing. Planes are now derived independently from direction of travel and joints from body-segment bone lists, so one edit can no longer corrupt both statements at once.

The mark schemes carry the allow and do not accept lines a real scheme has, and on the extended questions they are sorted by objective rather than listed as points — because the commonest way to lose marks on a nine is to write three paragraphs of correct theory that never mention the performer, and an empty column shows that where a point list cannot. Nothing is copied from a past paper, a mark scheme or an examiner report, every figure is drawn in code, and no board is named anywhere.

Written to

The GCSE subject content for physical education published by the Department for Education, and the assessment objective weightings set by Ofqual — measured here against the written paper, since the practical objective carries 40% that no book can assess

Intended for

PE teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide

Extent

107 pages · 8 sections