The ideas behind sport and PE, who participates, and the pathway to the top.
The Conceptual Basis of Sport and Physical Education
This subtopic asks you to hold two concepts in your head at once: sport and physical education. Cambridge wants their similarities, their differences and, hardest of all,...
5 questions · 15 marks
Revise this topicSport
Cambridge defines sport by its characteristics — complex rules, competition, structure, predetermined features, officials, tactics and strategies — then asks you to expla...
7 questions · 22 marks
Revise this topicPhysical Education
Physical education is the planned, progressive, teacher-led learning of movement that every pupil receives inside the school curriculum. Cambridge defines it through seve...
7 questions · 19 marks
Revise this topicRegular Participation
Regular participation means taking part in physical activity often enough for it to matter, and Cambridge lists seven factors that decide whether a person does. Every fac...
7 questions · 21 marks
Revise this topicAchieving Excellence
Elite performers sit at the top of the performance pyramid: of national or international standard, usually professional, and very few in number. Reaching that level is no...
7 questions · 21 marks
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Where this fits in AS Level PE 8386
This page is one area of Cambridge AS Level PE 8386. AS Level PE 8386 is the course home: every area and every topic in Cambridge's own order, the papers you sit and what each one tests, and the exam-practice tools. The full topic list, with each topic linked to its revision page, is on the AS Level PE 8386 syllabus page.