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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE Physical Education and Health

Physiological processes, training principles and sport psychology, taken from the Made-for-Wales specification rather than the older PE course it replaced.

Terms
258
Lessons
10
Spec code
3590QS

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Physical Education and Health specification, first teaching 2026.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
  • innovation and contemporary developments
  • strength of ligaments and tendons
  • muscle fibre characteristics
  • Creatine Phosphate system
  • specific, measurable, agreed, realistic, time phased
  • strengths and areas for improvement
  • specificity, progression, overload, variance
  • purpose of the training activity
  • emotional health and wellbeing
  • sustainability and environmental impact
  • short-term effects of exercise
  • antagonistic muscle action
  • energy balance equation
  • stress management techniques
  • comparisons to normative data
  • proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
  • personal training programme

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Factors that affect health and wellbeing, sports and physical activity

  • 1.1 How sport and physical activity impact health and wellbeing
  • 1.2 Socio-cultural factors that influence participation and performance

Physiological processes for health and sporting performance

  • 2.1 Short and long-term effects of exercise
  • 2.2 Movement in physical activity and sport
  • 2.3 Diet, nutrition, energy systems and training zones

Psychological aspects of sports and physical activity

  • 3.1 Self-confidence, motivation, arousal and feedback

Training and personal programmes

  • 4.1 Self-assessment of fitness
  • 4.2 Training methods and principles
  • 4.3 Designing a personal training programme
  • 4.4 Explaining terms in your own words

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE Physical Education and Health Specification (Version 2 - December 2025)
  • WJEC GCSE Physical Education and Health Guidance for Teaching Unit 1 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Physical Education and Health Guidance for Teaching Unit 2 (Undated)

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