OCR As Physical Education Paper 2 2025 Question Paper Guide

Download the official OCR AS Level Physical Education H155/02 Psychological and Socio-cultural Themes in Physical Education question paper from the June 2025 examination series. This downloadable PDF contains the complete OCR AS PE Paper 2 exam sat on Tuesday 20 May 2025, including structured short-answer questions, practical sporting scenarios, theory-based analysis tasks, and an extended-response essay question in the official OCR exam format.

The OCR H155/02 June 2025 question paper examines a broad range of sport psychology, skill acquisition, socio-cultural, historical, and Olympic-sport topics. Students are assessed on continuity continua, transfer of learning, guidance, feedback, goal setting, attitudes, persuasive communication, arousal theories, social facilitation, pre-industrial sport, professionalism, the Olympic Games, and the impact of hosting global sporting events.

Question 1 focuses on skill acquisition and motor learning. Students must classify discrete, serial, and continuous skills, explain the continuity continuum, apply examples of bilateral and negative transfer, evaluate methods of reducing negative transfer, identify different types of guidance, analyse disadvantages of mechanical guidance, and compare the advantages and disadvantages of positive feedback and knowledge of performance.

Question 2 explores motivation, attitudes, arousal, and group dynamics in sport psychology. Candidates identify reasons performers set goals, apply SMART principles of goal setting, define attitudes, explain persuasive communication, sketch and label the inverted-U theory graph, analyse optimal arousal levels for gross skills and experienced performers, and explain social facilitation and social inhibition with practical coaching solutions.

Question 3 investigates socio-cultural influences and the historical development of sport in Britain. Students analyse how law and order, education, and money affected mob football in pre-industrial Britain, identify upper-class activities, discuss the development of professionalism from 1850 to the modern era, explain key facts about the modern Olympic Games, describe the political exploitation of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and evaluate the impacts of hosting global sporting events on host nations and cities.

Section B contains the 10-mark extended-response essay question requiring students to describe how a young performer may learn new skills according to cognitive learning theory and evaluate different sources of motivation affecting sporting performance. Candidates are instructed to apply practical sporting examples throughout the essay while demonstrating AO1 knowledge, AO2 sporting application, and AO3 evaluative analysis.

The paper requires strong understanding of sport psychology concepts including transfer of learning, guidance methods, motivation, attitudes, social inhibition, social facilitation, cognitive learning theory, and intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. OCR also expects candidates to apply accurate sporting examples and balanced evaluation in extended written responses.

This OCR AS Physical Education H155/02 question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, examiner-style revision, classroom discussion, retrieval practice, essay-planning exercises, and improving AO1 knowledge, AO2 sporting application, and AO3 evaluative analysis under authentic OCR examination conditions. Pair this paper with the official OCR H155/02 June 2025 mark scheme for complete examiner-standard revision and performance analysis. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, fully mobile-friendly, and instantly downloadable.

This document is designed for OCR AS Physical Education students preparing for the 2026 examination series, resit candidates improving Psychological and Socio-cultural Themes in Physical Education exam performance, home-educated learners, and independent candidates studying AS PE. It is especially valuable for students practising sport psychology application, socio-cultural analysis, essay-writing skills, and OCR examiner-style evaluation techniques.

Teachers, tutors, PE departments, revision-course providers, intervention coordinators, and parents can use this official OCR question paper for mock examinations, retrieval practice, essay-planning activities, classroom discussion, and benchmarking student responses against live OCR assessment standards from the June 2025 series.