Specification points
WJEC A-level Physical Education 1550QS
50 points in 4 topics, with WJEC's codes and titles.
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1 Unit 1: Exploring physical education
- 1.1 Exercise physiology, performance analysis and training
- 1.1.1 Performance analysis in sport
- 1.1.2 Levers
- 1.1.3 Analysis of movement in physical activities
- 1.1.4 Joints and articulations
- 1.1.5 Musculo-skeletal system
- 1.1.6 Preparation and training methods
- 1.1.7 Energy systems and their application to training principles
- 1.1.8 Fatigue and the recovery process
- 1.1.9 Diet and nutrition and performance
- 1.2 Sports psychology
- 1.2.1 Personality
- 1.2.2 Stress, arousal and anxiety in sport
- 1.2.3 Motivation
- 1.3 Skill acquisition
- 1.3.1 Skill, ability and application to practical activity
- 1.3.2 Learning processes and variables
- 1.4 Sport and society
- 1.4.1 Sport, culture and society
- 1.4.2 Emergence of modern sport
- 1.4.3 Social differentiation within sport
2 Unit 2: Improving personal performance in physical education
3 Unit 3: Evaluating physical education
- 3.1 Exercise physiology, performance analysis and training
- 3.1.1 Short-term responses to exercise
- 3.1.2 Long-term adaptations to exercise
- 3.1.3 Diet and nutrition and performance
- 3.1.4 Biomechanical principles
- 3.1.5 Linear motion
- 3.1.6 Projectile motion
- 3.1.7 Fluid mechanics
- 3.2 Sports psychology
- 3.2.1 Attitudes
- 3.2.2 Aggression
- 3.2.3 Social Facilitation
- 3.2.4 Group Dynamics and Leadership
- 3.2.5 Attribution theory
- 3.3 Skill acquisition
- 3.3.1 Information Processing
- 3.4 Sport and society
- 3.4.1 Ethics and deviance within sport
- 3.4.2 Sport and the mass media
- 3.4.3 Sport, commercialisation and globalisation
- 3.4.4 From mass participation to excellence