OCR A-Level PE: Reviewing the 2025 Exams

Course Code: T0373 £249.00

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This brand-new in-depth course is designed to transform insights from the 2025 OCR A-Level PE exams into actionable strategies for improving student performance. It will provide a comprehensive analysis of key trends, common mistakes, and examiner feedback to help refine teaching methods. Delegates will explore effective ways to develop students’ exam technique, improve their written responses, and enhance their understanding of assessment requirements. 

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

  • Gain a clear understanding of key lessons from the 2025 OCR A-Level PE exams
  • Analyse student performance across different papers and question types
  • Identify common misconceptions and develop strategies to address them
  • Improve student responses to extended and short-answer questions
  • Learn practical approaches to support coursework and practical performance assessment

PROGRAMME

10.00am: Understanding the 2025 Exam Performance

  • Analysing your data- how to analyse your data and where to go with it from there
  • Key insights from the 2025 exams – strengths and areas for development
  • Identifying patterns in student performance across different components

10.30am: Performance in the Paper 1 examination

  • Investigate the most challenging questions and study model answers
  • Understanding common errors and misconceptions
  • Developing a strategic action plan to improve student outcomes 

11.00am: Break

11.15am: Performance in the Paper 2 and 3 examinations

  • Investigate the most challenging questions and study model answers for papers 2 and 3
  • Understanding common errors and misconceptions
  • Developing a strategic action plan to improve student outcomes

12.00pm: Improving your students exam technique- tackling short-answer and data-based questions

  • Common mistakes and how to avoid them
  • Teaching students to interpret and apply data effectively
  • Ensuring precision and clarity in written responses

12.30pm: Lunch

1.30pm: Excelling in Extended Response Questions

  • How student responses aligned with examiner expectations
  • Effectively structuring responses to meet AO1, AO2, and AO3 criteria
  • Strategies to improve analysis, evaluation, and critical thinking skills
  • A look at model extended questions
  • Developing a strategic action plan to improve student outcomes

2.30pm: Break

2.45pm: NEA Focus – Enhancing performance in the EAPI assessment

  • Review of examiner reports and feedback
  • Why students lose marks and how to improve their work in the NEA
  • Preparing students for the NEA to meet assessment objectives

3.30pm: Depart

A-Level - Code: T0373

OCR A-Level PE: Reviewing the 2025 Exams

COURSE LEADERS

Kate McDonnell has worked as a Head of PE for over 10 years in an Outstanding college. She is an experienced leader, overseeing a large Science and Sport curriculum area which achieves consistently outstanding results. Kate has achieved consistently outstanding results with her cohorts in A Level PE (ALPS 2, VA 1.18), and in 2024 her cohort achieved 100% A*-B grades. She also works as an examiner for OCR, and previously AQA, has authored several resources, and delivered revision conferences for students, and CPD courses for teachers nationwide.

As a practitioner, delivering the course every year to cohorts of students, Kate not only understands the A Level course and how to maximise learner outcomes, but can provide tangible, and realistic strategies to achieve this.

 

Abbie is an A level PE specialist with18 years teaching experience achieving excellent outcomes. Within this time Abbie has also examined a range of PE courses at both GCSE and A level. As a full time, education consultant and A level specialist Abbie delivers across all aspects of the PE course and particularly enjoys supporting both students and teachers with challenging areas of the specification such as how to tackle the coursework components and topics such as biomechanics, helping to make the content accessible to all learners.  Alongside her role as director of A Level Revision UK, Abbie tutors a select number of students each year consistently receiving 5* reviews.

 

 

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