OCR A Level Physical Education Paper 2 2025 Question Paper

Download the official OCR A Level Physical Education H555/02 Psychological Factors Affecting Performance question paper from the June 2025 examination series. This downloadable PDF contains the complete OCR A Level PE Paper 2 exam sat on Wednesday 4 June 2025, including sport-psychology scenarios, skill-acquisition questions, leadership analysis, memory-theory tasks, arousal-theory evaluation, and extended-response essays in the official OCR exam format.

The OCR H555/02 June 2025 question paper covers a wide range of sport psychology and skill-acquisition topics including personality types, stress-management techniques, intrinsic feedback, stages of learning, anxiety responses, skill classification, transfer of learning, selective attention, memory-processing models, operant conditioning, guidance methods, attribution theory, leadership theories, catastrophe theory, Steiner’s model of group performance, practice types, and Bandura’s self-efficacy theory.

Section A contains short-answer questions assessing core psychological concepts in sporting performance. Students identify personality traits linked to Type A personalities and introverts, provide examples of somatic stress-management techniques, define intrinsic feedback, explain advantages of feedback systems, identify stages of learning from sporting examples, and give examples of somatic anxiety responses experienced by performers.

Question 6 explores skill acquisition, memory models, learning theories, and guidance methods. Candidates explain simple, closed, and highly organised skills; define bilateral and negative transfer; apply selective attention in hockey according to Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multi-store memory model; explain Craik and Lockhart’s levels-of-processing theory; analyse operant conditioning in learning new skills; and evaluate verbal and manual guidance for expert performers.

Question 7 focuses on attribution theory, leadership, arousal, and group dynamics. Students apply Weiner’s model of attribution using sporting examples, discuss the positive and negative effects of external attribution, define emergent and prescribed leaders, evaluate leadership development through observation, explain catastrophe theory using the provided arousal-performance graph, and analyse underperformance in sport teams using Steiner’s model of group productivity.

Section C contains a 10-mark extended-response essay on practice methods and self-efficacy. Candidates must explain different practice types that coaches may use to improve passing skills while also analysing how Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy can be used to raise a performer’s confidence and sporting performance. Practical sporting examples are required throughout the response.

The paper integrates AO1 knowledge, AO2 sporting application, and AO3 analytical evaluation across all sections. OCR expects candidates to use accurate psychological terminology, clear sporting examples, evaluative reasoning, and structured written analysis when answering both short-answer and extended-response questions.

This OCR A Level Physical Education H555/02 question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, sport-psychology revision, essay-planning exercises, classroom discussion, retrieval practice, and improving AO1 knowledge, AO2 sporting application, and AO3 evaluative analysis under authentic OCR examination conditions. Pair this paper with the official OCR H555/02 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 A Level Physical Education students preparing for the 2026 examination series, resit candidates improving Psychological Factors Affecting Performance exam performance, home-educated learners, and independent candidates studying A Level PE. It is especially valuable for students practising sport-psychology application, evaluative writing, leadership analysis, and OCR examiner-style essay techniques.

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