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Practical performance and the AEP (Components 03 and 04)

2 dot points across 2 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you analyse a performance, identify a weakness and justify a plan to improve it?

The Analysis and Evaluation of Performance (AEP): analysing a performance to identify strengths and weaknesses, prioritising one weakness, and producing a justified action plan to improve it that draws on the theory content.
A focused answer to OCR GCSE PE on the Analysis and Evaluation of Performance (AEP): how to analyse a performance to find strengths and weaknesses, prioritise one weakness, and produce a justified action plan that uses the theory (components of fitness, training methods, skill acquisition), and how the task is marked under controlled conditions.
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How is your practical performance assessed, and how do you choose and prepare your three activities?

The structure of the non-exam assessment (three activities including at least one team and one individual), how practical performance is assessed under competitive or formal conditions, the approved activity lists, and how skills, techniques and decision making are marked.
A focused answer to OCR GCSE PE practical performance: the structure of the non-exam assessment (three activities, at least one team and one individual), assessment under fully competitive or formal conditions, the approved activity lists, the marking of skills and decision making, and how the practical marks fit the qualification.
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