GCE O/L Health & Physical Education case studies
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The GCE Ordinary Level Health and Physical Education examination is a school-leaving subject examination taken by candidates completing the Ordinary Level cycle. It suits students who want a formally assessed grounding in personal health, physical fitness and sport, whether they intend to continue into advanced-level biological science, physical education teaching, sports coaching, nursing or community health work, or simply to leave school with a certified health literacy qualification. The GCE O/L Health & Physical Education case studies are 5 cases and about 4,192 words.
1Collapse at the 800 m final: heat exhaustion or heat stroke?
It is the inter-house sports meet at a school in Anuradhapura in early April. The track surface is measured at 41 °C and the humidity is high.
828 words, about 4 min2A Grade 11 girl who is always tired: reading the diet behind the symptoms
A 16-year-old girl in Grade 11 comes to the school health clinic saying she feels tired all the time and cannot concentrate in class. She is 158 cm tall and weighs 47 kg.
866 words, about 4 min3Why the same-height boy jumps 35 cm further
A Grade 10 PE class is practising the standing long jump for the school fitness test. A 15-year-old boy jumps 1.55 m, while a classmate of exactly the same height jumps 1.90 m.
825 words, about 4 min4"Everyone would be better off without me": responding to a student at risk
A 16-year-old boy who has played in the school cricket team for two years has stopped coming to practice for three weeks. His marks in the term test fell from the top ten of the class to the bottom ten.
856 words, about 4 min5"It is only water vapour": a vape pod behind the toilet block
During an inter-school trip, you find four Grade 10 boys behind the toilet block passing around a small electronic device that produces a sweet-smelling cloud. One of them, a 15-year-old whose family you know, says it is "just water vapour with flavour, no tobacco, so it is harmless", and that it helps him relax before tests.
817 words, about 4 min