QCE Physical Education past exams 2020–2025, by year and topic

The rest of the syllabus

Question-level mapping for these areas is still being verified. Every official paper covering them is in the year table above.

• Unit 1: Motor learning, functional anatomy, biomechanics and physical activity — Body and movement concepts (body awareness, space awareness, quality of movement, relationships) · Motor learning concepts (motor skills, motor programs, skill classification: fine/gross, open/closed, discrete/continuous/serial) · Functional anatomy relevant to the selected physical activity · Biomechanical concepts (summation of forces, speed, velocity, displacement, acceleration, Newton's laws of motion, balance and stability, levers, Bernoulli's principle)
• Unit 2: Sport psychology and equity in physical activity — Sport psychology (motivation, confidence, arousal, attention, concentration, team dynamics) · Psychological techniques to optimise performance · Personal factors as barriers and enablers (self-esteem, self-concept, personal ability, genetic disposition, gender, prior experience) · Cultural, institutional and environmental factors as barriers and enablers (government funding, media promotion, policies, built/natural environments)
• Unit 3: Tactical awareness and ethics in physical activity — Topic 1: Tactical awareness — specialised movement sequences and movement strategies · Topic 1: Dynamic systems of motor learning applied to tactical awareness · Topic 1: Devising and evaluating tactical strategies to optimise performance · Topic 2: Ethics and integrity — fair play and ethical values in physical activity · Topic 2: Responding to and evaluating ethical dilemmas/ethics strategies in sport
• Unit 4: Energy, fitness and training — Energy systems (ATP-PC, lactic acid/anaerobic glycolysis, aerobic) · Components of fitness (aerobic capacity, muscular endurance, speed, strength, power, flexibility, agility) · Training session structure (RAMP warm-up, conditioning phase, cool down) · Training principles and methods applied to the selected physical activity to optimise personal performance
• Selected physical activities (practical/applied context across units) — Invasion category activity · Net and court category activity · Performance category activity · Requirement to select from different categories across Units 3 and 4