AQA A Level Physical Education Paper 2 November 2020 question paper

Which vitamin is used for energy release during exercise?

Which of the following is used for calculating angular velocity?

Describe how using a hyperbaric chamber can aid recovery.

Explain the benefits of including weight training as part of a rugby player’s training regime.

Discuss the importance of fat intake to an endurance athlete.

Adam Peaty has set multiple new world records in the 100 m breaststroke.

Table 1 shows his performances in some major championships over a two-year period.

Analyse how Adam Peaty would use Macro, Meso and Micro cycles to achieve these performances.

According to Fiedler’s contingency theory, the most appropriate leadership style is influenced by the situation the leader is in.

Which situation would a person-orientated leadership style be most effective in?

In the build-up to an important competition, athletes often experience stress.

Which of the following is classed as a cognitive stress management technique?

Learned helplessness can be general or specific.

Define both of these terms.

General learned helplessness

Specific learned helplessness

The work of Hollander and Lewin are examples of an interactionist perspective of personality.

Explain how interactionist perspectives account for the varied behaviour of a netballer who is repeatedly fouled during two different games.

Table 2 shows the England cricket team’s home and away results in matches between 2012 and 2018.

Evaluate the impact of home field advantage on the England cricket team’s results.

Use the information in Table 2 in your answer.

In the 2011 Masters, Rory McIlroy was four shots ahead going into the final round. However, due to a sudden decline in performance, he finished 10 shots behind the eventual winner.

Analyse the factors linked to arousal which led to such a dramatic and sudden decline in performance.

England, ranked 11th in the world, were knocked out of the 2016 European Championships by Iceland, a team ranked 34th in the world.

Losing the match 2 – 1 represented a significant under-achievement for the England football team.

Analyse the faulty group processes which could have caused this defeat and the strategies which can be used to address specific faulty processes.

In which of the following situations would a performer need assistance from the law as a result of an incident occurring outside of competition?

Maintaining the integrity of data can be difficult.

Which of the following issues relates specifically to manual data entry?

Positive forms of deviance can sometimes be seen during sporting contests.

Define the term positive deviance.

Give a sporting example of positive deviance.

State two causes of performer violence. Give a sporting example for each.

The Olympic Oath was introduced in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Since then, the Olympic Oath has been taken by all competitors in the games.

Discuss whether the Olympic Oath is still relevant in the modern-day Olympic Games.

Income from commercialisation has made an impact on sport.

Figure 2 shows the income from Premier League television broadcasting rights over a 27-year period.

Evaluate the impact of commercialisation on professional football since the Premier League was formed in 1992. Refer to Figure 2 in your response.

By August 2019, 69 athletes had failed drugs tests using samples taken during the London 2012 Olympics.

Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used for eliminating the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport.