Key term
Eduqas A-Level Physical Education A550QS
Health, Fitness and an Active Lifestyle
Short-Term Responses to Exercise
Long-Term Adaptations to Exercise
Fitness Testing and Components of Fitness
Training Methods, Principles and Periodisation
Topic overviewSpecificity, progressive overload, reversibility, variance and FITTContinuous, fartlek, interval and high intensity trainingWeight, plyometric, circuit and flexibility trainingAltitude training and training in hot and cold climatesTraining zones, heart rate monitoring and periodisation
Energy Systems
Fatigue and Recovery
Diet, Nutrition and Supplements
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Joints and the Musculo-Skeletal System
Planes, Axes and Movement Patterns
Biomechanical Principles and Levers
Linear and Angular Motion
Projectile Motion and Fluid Mechanics
Performance Analysis
Technology in Sport
Personality
Attitudes
Goal Setting
Stress, Arousal and Anxiety
Motivation
Aggression
Social Facilitation
Group Dynamics and Leadership
Attribution Theory
Self-Efficacy and Confidence
Skill, Ability and Skill Classification
Learning Curves, Theories and Stages
Transfer, Practice and Guidance
Information Processing, Memory and Feedback
Sport, Culture and Society
The Emergence of Modern Sport
Ethics, Deviance and Doping
Social Differentiation in Sport
Sport and the Mass Media
Commercialisation and Globalisation
Mass Participation and Excellence
- 4 subtopics
- 12 things to know
- Components 1 and 2
What Mass Participation and Excellence covers
Mass Participation and Excellence is examined in both papers, since Component 1 and Component 2 can each examine any of the content. It covers mass participation versus excellence, participation, lifestyle and movement between levels, talent identification and the elite pathway and sport organisations and recreational pathways.
Where it is assessed
Components 1 and 2
Either 2 hour written paper, each worth 35% of the A level, can examine this.
Check the Eduqas specification ↗The 4 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Mass participation versus excellenceMass participation and sporting excellence and the tension between them, the benefits of participation, the sports development pyramid and its levels, and Sport England's sports development continuum.Open →
- Participation, lifestyle and movement between levelsIndividual difference, family and friends, education, tradition and age, provision and finance, body image and disability, and the factors that move performers up or down the pyramid.Open →
- Talent identification and the elite pathwayTalent identification and its methods, talent transfer, the World Class Performance Pathway, UK Sport, the UK Sports Institute and its support, wrong early decisions, national governing bodies and funding.Open →
- Sport organisations and recreational pathwaysSport England and sport for all, government and school sport, national governing bodies in grassroots and elite sport, local provision, recreational pathways, lifelong activity and health agencies.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How can provision, cost, body image and disability affect participation?
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What is meant by mass participation?
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What is talent identification?
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What is meant by sporting excellence?
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How does individual difference affect participation?
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What methods are used to identify talent?
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How does Sport England promote sport for all?
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Why is there a tension between mass participation and excellence?
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How do family and friends affect participation?
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What is talent transfer?
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What is meant by sport for all?
Take Mass Participation and Excellence further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Mass participation vs Excellence
Mass participation: getting as many people as possible active for health and enjoyment. Excellence: developing a small number of performers to the highest level.
Talent identification vs Talent transfer
Talent identification: spotting young people's potential for the first time. Talent transfer: moving an established athlete into a better-suited discipline.
Participation level vs Performance level
Participation level: taking part recreationally for fun, health or social reasons. Performance level: regular coached competition aimed at improving.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is meant by mass participation?
Model answer
Mass participation is getting as many people as possible to take part in sport and physical activity. The aim is health and enjoyment for all.
- 2
What is meant by sporting excellence?
Model answer
Sporting excellence is the development of performers to the highest level. The aim is elite success and medals.
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Why is there a tension between mass participation and excellence?
Model answer
Funding is limited, so money given to elite sport cannot go to grassroots sport. Governments must decide how to divide it.
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How can mass participation support excellence?
Model answer
A larger base of participants gives a bigger pool of talent. More people taking part means more potential champions.
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How can excellence support mass participation?
Model answer
Elite success and role models can inspire people to take up sport. Home events can boost interest in a sport.
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What are the benefits of participation to the individual?
Model answer
Participation improves physical health, mental wellbeing and social contact. Sport can also build confidence and skills.
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Mass Participation and Excellence revision questions
- What does Mass Participation and Excellence cover in Eduqas A-Level Physical Education?
- 4 subtopics: mass participation versus excellence, participation, lifestyle and movement between levels, talent identification and the elite pathway and sport organisations and recreational pathways. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Mass Participation and Excellence organised?
- By the Eduqas A550QS specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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