IGCSE Physical Education

Preparation, Practice, Performance
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⚡ Step 1: Warm-Up & Active Recall

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📝 Step 2: Official Exam Practice
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Topic 1: Anatomy and Physiology
(1.1) Skeletal and Muscular System Functions of the skeleton, joint types, movement, and muscle fibre types
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(1.2) Respiratory and Circulatory Systems Mechanics of breathing, gaseous exchange, blood vessels, and cardiac output
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(1.3) Energy Supply and the Effects of Exercise Aerobic/anaerobic respiration, recovery, EPOC, and short/long-term effects
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(1.4) Simple Biomechanics Principles of force, mass, acceleration, applications, and levers
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Topic 2: Health, Fitness and Training
(2.1) Health and well-being Physical, mental, and social health definitions and interactions
(2.2) Diet and energy sources Nutrients, energy balance, and sources of energy for performance
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(2.3) Components of fitness Health/skill-related components, fitness tests, and VO2 max
(2.4) Principles of training and overload SPORT, FITT principles, and the dangers of overtraining
(2.5) Methods of training Continuous, weight, fartlek, plyometric, circuit, HIIT, and altitude
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Topic 3: Skill Acquisition and Psychology
(3.1) Skill, Ability and Information Processing Skill classification continua and the simple information processing model
(3.2) Learning, Feedback and Guidance Stages of learning and types of feedback/guidance
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(3.3) Sports Psychology SMARTER goal setting, motivation, arousal, anxiety, relaxation, and personality
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Topic 4: Social, Cultural and Ethical Influences
(4.1) Leisure, Recreation and Sports Development Growth in leisure activities and the sports development pyramid
(4.2) Commercialisation and Media Sponsorship, types of media coverage, and hosting global events
(4.3) Ethics in Sport Performance-enhancing drugs, blood doping, sportsmanship, and gamesmanship
(4.4) Safety and Access Risk assessment, injuries, technology, and factors affecting participation
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