plumiDrugs in sport: AQA A‑Level Physical Education questions
Every AQA A-Level Physical Education exam question on 3.2.4.5 Drugs in sport, 2020–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 9 questions on Drugs in sport, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q21 (15 marks): Table 1 shows the number of positive doping results recorded for six Olympic Games. Table 1 Olympic Games 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 Number of positive dopin
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q15 (1 mark): Taking performance-enhancing drugs can result in lasting damage to your health. Which one of the following is most likely to occur as a result of taking erythro
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q20 (8 marks): Figure 4 shows an elite golfer putting. The golfer is struggling with their putting because of cognitive and somatic anxiety. Figure 4 Evaluate the use of thoug
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q19.1 (1 mark): State one psychological reason why performers might use illegal drugs and doping methods to aid performance. [1 mark]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q19.2 (3 marks): Analyse how the physiological effects of each of the following drugs can improve performance in the named sports: • erythropoietin (EPO) taken by a road cyclist
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q16 (1 mark): Which one of the following would benefit most from taking beta blockers? [1 mark] A Golfer B Marathon runner C Rugby player D Sprinter
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q19 (3 marks): ‘The use of performance enhancing drugs should be allowed in sport.’ Evaluate this statement. [3 marks]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q21 (8 marks): In 2012, Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and given a lifetime ban for using banned substances including erythropoietin (EPO). Ev
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q21 (15 marks): By August 2019, 69 athletes had failed drugs tests using samples taken during the London 2012 Olympics. Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used for elimin
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