MATSEC IM Physical Education study plan

Film two 3-minute baseline clips (one invasion/team activity, one individual activity) from side-on and front-on angles on your phone.

Score both clips against a 6-criterion personal rubric covering technique, decision-making under pressure, consistency, and the fitness components the activity demands.

Label the major bones, joint types, and main muscle groups on a blank skeleton diagram from memory, then retest the missed items within 48 hours.

Write a one-page energy-system map naming the dominant system, intensity, and duration for each phase of play in both chosen activities.

Complete three 40-minute practical sessions in your stronger activity, each ending with a 10-minute conditioned game to keep skill sharp.

Write a 4-week skill progression (3 sessions per week) for your weaker activity, stating the drill, the coaching cue, and the success criterion for every session.

Record yourself performing the two key techniques of the weaker activity and self-score them against a written 5-band descriptor list you compose yourself.

Annotate the heart's conduction pathway and explain stroke volume, heart rate and cardiac output responses to incremental exercise in 200 words.

Deliver session 1 of the progression and log RPE, error count, and success rate before and after the session.

Explain the sliding-filament model of muscular contraction in 150 words and link it to one movement in your activity.

Analyse your own technique on video using lever classes, Newton's three laws, and the impulse-momentum relationship, and list three specific corrections.

Build a one-page force-time and angle-velocity summary of one throw, jump or kick from your activity.

Re-record the same skill after applying two corrections and compare the clips frame-by-frame in a free video-analysis app.

Explain how release angle, release height and release speed change projectile flight, using one pass or shot from your activity as the worked example.

Practise the corrected skill in two sessions and record whether the correction held up under fatigue in the final 10 minutes.

Sit a 40-question timed self-test on anatomy, physiology and exercise physiology, then log every wrong answer with the correct fact into an error log.

Design an 8-week training block for one fitness component using FITT principles and explicit progressive overload steps.

Administer and record three fitness tests (for example 20 m multi-stage shuttle, sit-and-reach, 1-minute press-up) following standard protocol, and compare each result with normative tables.

Build a comparison table of acute and chronic responses to aerobic versus resistance training across at least six variables.

Deliver three practical sessions in your weaker activity, keeping a two-line note on what improved and what did not.

Match each fitness component to one valid and reliable test, and justify two of the choices in terms of validity, reliability and practicality.

Write a 500-word critique comparing linear and undulating periodisation, applied to your own training year.

Define massed versus distributed practice, blocked versus random practice, whole versus part learning, and positive/negative transfer, giving a sporting example of each.

Design and deliver a 20-minute practice session built on one motor-learning principle, with a measurable success criterion written before the session.

Calculate and interpret a simple coefficient of variation or percentage improvement from your week-1 baseline data.

Apply drive theory, the inverted-U model and the catastrophe model to three performance scenarios, prescribing one intervention for each.

Write a SMART goal-setting plan and a pre-performance self-talk and imagery script for your weaker activity.

Film a full competitive-condition practice and score decision-making with a notational analysis grid that records successful and unsuccessful actions.

Reflect on one performance in 250 words using the Gibbs reflective cycle, ending with two actions for next week.

Complete two practical sessions under simulated pressure (scoreboard, time limit, observer) and rate your anxiety before and after using a 1-10 scale.

Build a timeline of key developments in Maltese and international sport and explain three socio-cultural factors that shape participation rates.

Argue both sides of two ethical issues (doping and commercialisation of sport) in writing, then reach and defend a conclusion on each.

Conduct a risk assessment of your training venue using a 5x5 likelihood-severity matrix and put three control measures in place.

Write a one-page emergency action plan covering RICE, concussion red flags and who does what in the first five minutes of an injury.

Summarise a coach's safeguarding duties towards minors in five bullet points, citing the principle behind each.

Perform a final recorded assessment of both chosen activities and score it on the same rubric used in week 1.

Complete one full timed mock paper covering all seven domains under exam conditions, then mark it and rank your weakest three topics.

Re-test every item in your week-4 error log and confirm each is now answered correctly.

Run three short taper sessions in your stronger activity, focusing only on the two cues that scored lowest in week 1.

Write a one-page exam-day plan listing timing per section and the order you will answer questions in.