COACHING PRINCIPLES EXAM SET ACTUAL TEST PAPER QUESTIONS CORRECT
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Coaching Principles EXAM SET 2026/2027
Questions and Answers Verified Solutions Latest
Update
Question:
Knowledge
Answer:
Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis
Question:
Evaluation
Answer:
Bloom's taxonomy revised by Anderson et al (2000) - ✔✔Basic to advanced Remembering
Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating
Question:
Creating
Answer:
Skill - ✔✔Any movements that are dependant on practise and experience for their execution, as
opposed to being genetically defined (Schmidt 1988) ✔✔Factors coaches measure - ✔✔Physical
conditioning, psychological skills, technical skills, tactics and decisions ✔✔Communication styles -
✔✔Autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, command, cooperate ✔✔Cognitive learning - ✔✔Where
learners actively seek and process information ✔✔Direct coaching style - ✔✔Information and
direction, controlling information and demonstrations ✔✔Task - ✔✔Several different tasks,
drills/circuits Tasks support the goal of that session ✔✔Reciprocal - ✔✔Athletes work together
Sessions designed around athletes needs ✔✔Guided discovery - ✔✔Develop independent athletes
Guided questions leading to a predetermined solution ✔✔Problem solving - ✔✔Coach and athlete
involved in deciding on a problem, accepting variety of solutions - no right/wrong option, some
better than others, encourage athletes to solve their own problems, athletes responsible for solution
process ✔✔Spectrum of teaching - ✔✔Command, practice, reciprocal, self check, inclusion, guided
discovery, convergent discovery, divergent discovery, individual programme, self teaching
, ✔✔Practical styles - ✔✔Whole practice, whole-part-whole, part progressive, part continuous,
sequential progression (overload/increasing complexity), regression ✔✔4 corners coaching style -
✔✔Technical, physical, social and psychological ✔✔FUNdamentals of movement - ✔✔Agility:
Balance: Coordination Learning to train Training to train Training to compete Training to win
✔✔REAL PE - ✔✔Agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning
✔✔Blocked practice - ✔✔multiple rehearsals/drills ✔✔Random practice - ✔✔variety of skills in
no particular order ✔✔Constant practice - ✔✔practice one variation of a drill (blocked practice)
✔✔Variable practice - ✔✔practice multiple versions of a drill (random practice) ✔✔Massed
practice - ✔✔designed to stimulate fatigue, skill is the easy to perform with little time to learn the
skill ✔✔Spaced/distributed practice - ✔✔Intervals between trials longer than the trial, i.e. rest
periods, complex skill demanding mental and physical effort ✔✔Elements of a session -
✔✔Physical conditioning, skills practice - technical, team practice - tactical, mental preparation
✔✔Nurture/nature - sequence development (select correct age group) - ✔✔5-7 years ✔✔Realism
in thought - quick adaptation to new skills (Select correct age group) - ✔✔8- 13 years ✔✔Changes
- Adult attitudes and responsibilities (Select correct age group) - ✔✔13-16 years ✔✔Sampling
years - ✔✔5-11 years old ✔✔Specialisation years - ✔✔10-14 years ✔✔Investment years (two
routes, investment or recreation) - ✔✔14+ years ✔✔Maturational factors - ✔✔Identity,
appearance, image, peer group influence ✔✔Secondary factors of expertise - ✔✔Contextual
variables, socio-cultural variable ✔✔Primary factors of expertise (leads to training, which leads to
expertise) - ✔✔Psychology, Genetics ✔✔Talent and skill development - ✔✔the provision of the
most appropriate (i.e., facilitative) environments for athletes to accelerate their learning and
performance ✔✔FTEM - ✔✔Foundations, Talent, Elite, Mastery (Gublin et al., 2014) ✔✔F1
(Foundational Sporting experiences) - ✔✔Fundamental Movement Skills ✔✔F2 (Foundational
Sporting experiences) - ✔✔Extension and Refinement of Movement Foundations ✔✔F3
(Foundational Sporting experiences) - ✔✔Sport specific commitment and/or competition
✔✔Sampling years (definition) - ✔✔Free play/deliberate play - fun ✔✔Investment/Specialisation
years (definition) - ✔✔Structured/ deliberate practice - optimising performance ✔✔Deliberate play
- ✔✔Having fun whilst developing expertise ✔✔Training and the role of family - ✔✔Ages 6 - 12,
important to help children experience a range of different sports (team sports), help to avoid
burnout: physical and mental - sampling years ✔✔Training and the role of coaches -
✔✔Development of sport specific skills - specialisation years Coordination and technique Structure
of practice Decision making Tactical awareness
Question:
Performing under pressure
Answer:
Deliberate practice - ✔✔Practised with full concentration on improving a specific aspect of
performance ✔✔Talent - ✔✔An expression of systematically developed skills resulting from the
interaction of both nature and nurture ✔✔Complex choreography - ✔✔Getting things right in elite
ANSWERS GRADED A PLUS
Coaching Principles EXAM SET 2026/2027
Questions and Answers Verified Solutions Latest
Update
Question:
Knowledge
Answer:
Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis
Question:
Evaluation
Answer:
Bloom's taxonomy revised by Anderson et al (2000) - ✔✔Basic to advanced Remembering
Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating
Question:
Creating
Answer:
Skill - ✔✔Any movements that are dependant on practise and experience for their execution, as
opposed to being genetically defined (Schmidt 1988) ✔✔Factors coaches measure - ✔✔Physical
conditioning, psychological skills, technical skills, tactics and decisions ✔✔Communication styles -
✔✔Autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, command, cooperate ✔✔Cognitive learning - ✔✔Where
learners actively seek and process information ✔✔Direct coaching style - ✔✔Information and
direction, controlling information and demonstrations ✔✔Task - ✔✔Several different tasks,
drills/circuits Tasks support the goal of that session ✔✔Reciprocal - ✔✔Athletes work together
Sessions designed around athletes needs ✔✔Guided discovery - ✔✔Develop independent athletes
Guided questions leading to a predetermined solution ✔✔Problem solving - ✔✔Coach and athlete
involved in deciding on a problem, accepting variety of solutions - no right/wrong option, some
better than others, encourage athletes to solve their own problems, athletes responsible for solution
process ✔✔Spectrum of teaching - ✔✔Command, practice, reciprocal, self check, inclusion, guided
discovery, convergent discovery, divergent discovery, individual programme, self teaching
, ✔✔Practical styles - ✔✔Whole practice, whole-part-whole, part progressive, part continuous,
sequential progression (overload/increasing complexity), regression ✔✔4 corners coaching style -
✔✔Technical, physical, social and psychological ✔✔FUNdamentals of movement - ✔✔Agility:
Balance: Coordination Learning to train Training to train Training to compete Training to win
✔✔REAL PE - ✔✔Agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning
✔✔Blocked practice - ✔✔multiple rehearsals/drills ✔✔Random practice - ✔✔variety of skills in
no particular order ✔✔Constant practice - ✔✔practice one variation of a drill (blocked practice)
✔✔Variable practice - ✔✔practice multiple versions of a drill (random practice) ✔✔Massed
practice - ✔✔designed to stimulate fatigue, skill is the easy to perform with little time to learn the
skill ✔✔Spaced/distributed practice - ✔✔Intervals between trials longer than the trial, i.e. rest
periods, complex skill demanding mental and physical effort ✔✔Elements of a session -
✔✔Physical conditioning, skills practice - technical, team practice - tactical, mental preparation
✔✔Nurture/nature - sequence development (select correct age group) - ✔✔5-7 years ✔✔Realism
in thought - quick adaptation to new skills (Select correct age group) - ✔✔8- 13 years ✔✔Changes
- Adult attitudes and responsibilities (Select correct age group) - ✔✔13-16 years ✔✔Sampling
years - ✔✔5-11 years old ✔✔Specialisation years - ✔✔10-14 years ✔✔Investment years (two
routes, investment or recreation) - ✔✔14+ years ✔✔Maturational factors - ✔✔Identity,
appearance, image, peer group influence ✔✔Secondary factors of expertise - ✔✔Contextual
variables, socio-cultural variable ✔✔Primary factors of expertise (leads to training, which leads to
expertise) - ✔✔Psychology, Genetics ✔✔Talent and skill development - ✔✔the provision of the
most appropriate (i.e., facilitative) environments for athletes to accelerate their learning and
performance ✔✔FTEM - ✔✔Foundations, Talent, Elite, Mastery (Gublin et al., 2014) ✔✔F1
(Foundational Sporting experiences) - ✔✔Fundamental Movement Skills ✔✔F2 (Foundational
Sporting experiences) - ✔✔Extension and Refinement of Movement Foundations ✔✔F3
(Foundational Sporting experiences) - ✔✔Sport specific commitment and/or competition
✔✔Sampling years (definition) - ✔✔Free play/deliberate play - fun ✔✔Investment/Specialisation
years (definition) - ✔✔Structured/ deliberate practice - optimising performance ✔✔Deliberate play
- ✔✔Having fun whilst developing expertise ✔✔Training and the role of family - ✔✔Ages 6 - 12,
important to help children experience a range of different sports (team sports), help to avoid
burnout: physical and mental - sampling years ✔✔Training and the role of coaches -
✔✔Development of sport specific skills - specialisation years Coordination and technique Structure
of practice Decision making Tactical awareness
Question:
Performing under pressure
Answer:
Deliberate practice - ✔✔Practised with full concentration on improving a specific aspect of
performance ✔✔Talent - ✔✔An expression of systematically developed skills resulting from the
interaction of both nature and nurture ✔✔Complex choreography - ✔✔Getting things right in elite
