GCSE · Physical Education

GCSE Physical Education: how each board marks it

AQA · OCR · Pearson Edexcel. A separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board’s specification word for word, and the first 8 pages of each are open to read here. Most staffrooms just say “GCSE PE”, not the full qualification name.

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The assessment objectives

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Application
AO3 Analysis
AO4 Performance

Read off the GCSE Physical Education specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

3 books, one per board

GCSE · 28 pages each · the first 8 pages open

Physical Education · GCSE · AQA £4.99

AQA GCSE Physical Education Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only. AQA GCSE Physical Education (8582). A working manual for a GCSE PE department. It moves in one direction, because that is the order in which the decisions get made: specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Application
AO3 Analysis
AO4 Performance

AQA GCSE Physical Education (8582) · 28 pages, 22 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

Preview · first 8 pages

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Physical Education · GCSE · OCR £4.99

OCR GCSE Physical Education Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only: OCR GCSE (9–1) Physical Education (J587). A working manual for a GCSE PE department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Application
AO3 Analysis
AO4 Performance

OCR GCSE (9–1) Physical Education (J587) · 28 pages, 22 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

Preview · first 8 pages

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Physical Education · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

Pearson Edexcel GCSE Physical Education Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only: Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Physical Education (1PE0). A working manual for a GCSE PE department. It moves in one direction: specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination. That is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Application
AO3 Analysis
AO4 Performance

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Physical Education (1PE0) · 28 pages, 22 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

Preview · first 8 pages

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One purchase covers the school that buys it · PDF straight after payment · Refunds