Hmm I found the Multiple Choice relatively hard in comparison to other years. I did do it second last in my exam though. (I did sports med, then short answers, then MC, then improving performance) After the exam I looked up what the 2nd highest morality for cancer for women was and it took me 4 links to find it, so incredibly specific, which in my opinion is bad as it rewards lucky students more than students who work really hard and know the content.
Also, for the one about the goal, how is it not Knowledge of results as they know that they made the kick? (ok I looked at this question and realised that they don't know they made it, so I got it wrong but the wording was iffy)
Similar to Question 16, isnt Fartlek based off changing intensities? If there are only 2 sets of intensities, one focused on recovery, and one focused on effort, isn't that aerobic interval?
Overall I found the rest of the paper pretty enjoyable. Short answers were the most fun. In total I had to get 8 extra booklets (5 for short answers and 3 for options), but I kind of messed up because I thought they were just like extra paper like the extra space they gave instead of having to write the question number, and since I didn't do it chronologically it seems really messy (one booklet had 3 different questions in it and 1 question was in 3 different booklets), but I think it should be okay, and I shouldn't be punished for writing more.
For the options I was really surprised they asked a question on TOTAPS and I was really hoping for something about rehabilitation. In my opinion 4 marks was too little for explaining the whole TOTAPS regime and I probably wasted too much time on that. And besides someone who heard a crack probably couldn't get to the active movement stage. I thought the question about climatic considerations was really great and I think I covered it really well, and this is probably a question where people lost marks.
For Improving Performance it was pretty good too but I might lose a mark for the first 4 marker. I didn't realise that it was asking about a specific athlete until I read part b), but it was too late to change it and instead I used 6 different athletes from American Football for each of the strength and flexibility types (if anything doesn't that demonstrate wider knowledge?). I got lucky that part b) was an 8 marker in my trial but that also meant I overwrote for that. I finished writing everything but my legibility probably suffered which I hope doesn't affect my mark.
I was finishing past papers with like half an hour to go, and my teacher gave us highlighters as a little gesture before the exam (I already had my own) because he always wants us to highlight the key terms, but I was maybe writing for 2 hours and 50 minutes of those 3 hours. Got a little panicked when the kid in front of me was already highlighting when I hadn't finished short answers, but after the exam the two kids who were just ahead of me (1 and 2 marks respectively and I was 3rd) in my class also didn't get to highlight, which was a relief.
Overall though, a pretty good test, a few curveball questions, but I felt like I did really well. Not perfect, but I'm pretty sure it's a band 6. I've always had my eye on potentially state ranking. Does anyone know what the mark for a state rank is?