Sports Science and the Active Leisure Industry MA11 เคล็ดลับการสอบ
CCEA A2 Sports Science: how the single 100-mark paper splits between short physiology questions and four QWC essays worth close to half the marks, and the bone names, transfer-of-learning terms and balanced arguments that decide the grade.
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ภาพรวมข้อสอบ
จำนวนฉบับ
1
คะแนนเต็ม
100
เวลาสอบ
2ชม.
ประเภทคำถาม
9
ฉบับ
เวลา
คะแนน
จำนวนข้อ
น้ำหนักคะแนน
ประเภทคำถาม
A2 2: The Application of Science to Sports Performance
2ชม.
100
5
100%
Short Answer & Definitions (1-4 marks), Structured Anatomical Movement Analysis (4 marks each), Short Application & Outline (5-6 marks), Extended Written QWC Essays (8, 10, 12, 16 marks)
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ข้อกำหนดเครื่องคิดเลข
No subject-specific calculator restriction is stated beyond the general CCEA and JCQ rules: a calculator is permitted for the physiological arithmetic this paper contains, such as cardiac output from stroke volume and heart rate, or a percentage change across a training programme, but it must not have any retrievable information stored in it and must not offer symbolic algebra manipulation, language translation, or communication with other machines or the internet.
AO1: AO1: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of sports science and the active leisure industry. (21%)
AO2: AO2: apply knowledge, understanding and skills through different contexts appropriate to sports science and the active leisure industry. (37%)
AO3: AO3: analyse and evaluate evidence to make reasoned and valid judgments about issues in sports science and the active leisure industry. (42%)
วัตถุประสงค์: Calculate cardiac output directly from a given stroke volume and heart rate.
ใช้เมื่อใด: Cardiovascular system questions giving stroke volume and heart rate values and asking for cardiac output.
ขั้นตอน
Write Q = SV x HR on the page, substitute the two values given in the question, multiply, and quote the answer in litres per minute.
ข้อควรระวังในการสอบ: This is a live calculation on the numbers printed in the question, not a stored program. CCEA and JCQ ban any retrievable stored information.
Percentage change across a training programme
Any CCEA-permitted scientific calculator
วัตถุประสงค์: Work out the percentage change in a physiological variable, such as VO2 max, between two measurements.
ใช้เมื่อใด: Effects of exercise or fitness testing questions giving before-and-after values for a training programme.
ขั้นตอน
Subtract the earlier value from the later one, divide by the earlier value, multiply by 100, and quote the result as a percentage increase or decrease.
ข้อควรระวังในการสอบ: Clear the calculator's memory before the exam, this calculation uses only the figures given in the question.
Stepwise arithmetic, not calculator-only working
Any CCEA-permitted scientific calculator
วัตถุประสงค์: Keep the shown method that earns credit visible on the page, even where a later step goes wrong.
ใช้เมื่อใด: Any structured question that carries a numeric physiology calculation alongside a written explanation.
ขั้นตอน
Write the formula and the substitution on paper first, then key the numbers into the calculator only for the arithmetic step, and copy the result back onto the page.
ข้อควรระวังในการสอบ: The calculator performs only the arithmetic here, live during the exam, it holds no stored formulae or notes.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย
1highคะแนนที่เกี่ยวข้อง: 2Anatomy, joint actions
Describing a joint action without naming both articulating bones, for example giving the shoulder's movement without stating the scapula and humerus, or the elbow's without the radius and ulna.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: State the specific bones at the joint by name before describing the movement, both bones, not just the obvious one.
2mediumคะแนนที่เกี่ยวข้อง: 2Muscular system
Confusing agonist and antagonist muscle roles during a multi-joint sporting movement, keeping the same pair fixed rather than tracking which muscle is contracting and which is relaxing at each phase.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: Identify the specific phase of the movement first, then name which muscle is the agonist and which is the antagonist for that phase alone.
3highคะแนนที่เกี่ยวข้อง: 3Cardiovascular system
Stating that cardiac output rises during exercise through heart rate alone, without crediting the Frank-Starling mechanism's contribution through increased stroke volume.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: State that cardiac output rises through both stroke volume, via the Frank-Starling mechanism, and heart rate, and quote the formula Q = SV x HR with its unit, litres per minute.
4mediumคะแนนที่เกี่ยวข้อง: 2Skill acquisition, transfer of learning
Confusing retroactive transfer of learning, new learning affecting an older skill, with proactive transfer, old learning affecting new learning.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: Learn the direction each term describes, proactive looks forward from old to new, retroactive looks backward from new to old, and always attach a specific sporting example.
5highคะแนนที่เกี่ยวข้อง: 4QWC, balanced essay
Writing an evaluate or discuss essay, on altitude training or sports technology, as a one-sided list of advantages without the counter-argument.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: Plan both sides before writing: altitude training's aerobic benefit alongside detraining and altitude sickness risk, or technology's accuracy gain alongside elitism and rule-change concerns.
6mediumคะแนนที่เกี่ยวข้อง: 2Effects of exercise, altitude training
Assuming altitude training produces permanent aerobic gains, without acknowledging rapid de-acclimatisation and reduced training intensity on return to sea level.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: State explicitly that altitude adaptations reverse quickly at sea level, and that training intensity itself often drops at altitude, both count against a purely positive evaluation.
Giving a generic explanation of muscle contraction type without specifying whether the muscle shortens, lengthens, or holds a static length under load.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: Name the contraction type precisely, concentric shortens, eccentric lengthens, isometric holds a static length, and match it to the specific movement phase in the question.
Explaining gaseous exchange without referencing partial pressure gradients or the direction of diffusion across the alveolar and capillary membranes.
วิธีหลีกเลี่ยง: State the pressure gradient explicitly, oxygen diffuses from high partial pressure in the alveoli to low partial pressure in the capillary blood, and name the membrane it crosses.