2026 PE and Sport revision coming your way!
Dear PE colleagues,
I am delighted to announce that, for the 11th consecutive year, my team and I will be providing sector-leading PE and sport revision for summer exams 2026. Since 2015, I have been providing revision experiences, initially live to YouTube in the 48 hours before exams and, since 2017, as part of my team, providing specialised and multi-resource experiences for PE students and PE teachers and even entire rooms or even school halls full of PE students.
Let’s get to the most important messages quickly. Revision in 2026 will cover:
| GCSE | AQA | Paper 1 |
| Paper 2 | ||
| Edexcel | Paper 1 | |
| Paper 2 | ||
| OCR | Paper 1 | |
| Paper 2 | ||
| WJEC | Paper 1 | |
| iGCSE | CIE | Paper 1 |
| Technical L2 | BTEC Tech | Component 3 |
| OCR National | R180 | |
| R184 | ||
| AS | CIE | Paper 1 |
| A-level | AQA | Paper 1 |
| Paper 2 | ||
| Edexcel | Paper 1 | |
| Paper 2 | ||
| OCR | Paper 1 | |
| Paper 2 | ||
| Paper 3 | ||
| Technical L3 | BTEC Sport | Unit 1 |
| BTEC Sport and Exercise Science | Unit 2 | |
| OCR Technical Sport and Physical Activity | Unit 1 | |
| Diploma | IB SEHS | Paper 1 |
| Paper 2a and 2b |
As you can see, our offer is broad, and we aim to help as many revising PE and Sport students as possible. Crucially, though, our offer is also very deep. Here is what we provide for *every course:
| Resource | Description | Available to |
| Exam infographic | A statistical analysis of the exam covering commonly examined topics, key skills and mark allocation trends | All |
| Ten Hot Topics | Identification of the 10 Hot Topics that we recommend that all revising students automatise in preparation for their exam. Hot Topics include areas of a course that are always examined or feature heavily in extended writing, or those that have not been examined in recent papers. | Annual subscribers to TheEverLearner.com or those purchasing the 2026 revision package |
| 2026 mock exam paper | A highly specific replica of a real exam-board, external exam featuring all of the Hot Topics, the key skills and based entirely on the structures of “the real thing” | Annual subscribers to TheEverLearner.com or those purchasing the 2026 revision package |
| 2026 mock exam mark scheme | The marking device for the mock exam paper | Annual subscribers to TheEverLearner.com or those purchasing the 2026 revision package |
| Live revision show | A 90-minute live show delivered via TheEverLearner.com in the region of two weeks prior to the external exam. The live show covers the 10 Hot Topics mentioned above and focuses deeply on the key skills of the Hot Topics and the exam as a whole. The live show is available as a recording from the very same environment as soon as the live broadcast ends. | Annual subscribers to TheEverLearner.com or those purchasing the 2026 revision package |
| Revision student notes pages | A physical guide to the revision show featuring activities, questions and professionally designed imagery in support of the learning of the 10 Hot Topics and their associated key skills | Annual subscribers to TheEverLearner.com or those purchasing the 2026 revision package |
| Revision teacher notes pages | A completed version of the student notes pages for teachers to use in support of their revising students | Annual subscribers to TheEverLearner.com or those purchasing the 2026 revision package |
*Please note that for newer courses where 2026 will be the first cycle of exams, the infographics are based on the SAMs and that we do not recommend Hot Topics.
As you will notice from this guide, the depth of the resources is better than ever, and I am deeply proud to bring this awareness to you. You may also notice that, for the first time since 2019, the significant majority of our revision resources are now premium and that our free offer has been reduced. This is a fair observation, and I want to remind colleagues reading this article that between 2022 and 2025, large swathes of our revision were free. In essence, we decommercialised our revision in 2022 in support of PE and Sport students who had missed out so grievously from COVID lockdowns and various other challenges, and we also managed to keep these free offers in play in 2023, 2024 and, largely, in 2025. But the time has come for our revision services to return to being a direct benefit to our customers once again in 2026, and I want to thank all our customers for their support up until now, allowing my team and me to provide our revision for free to others when they are paying. This was the right thing to do in the era of COVID but that era is, I hope, no more.
So, customers of TheEverLearner.com simply need to start scheduling when and planning for how they wish to use the revision resources. I will write more about the “how” below.
Non-customers have two choices:
- Please seriously consider joining our 1,200 annual PE department subscribers at TheEverLearner.com and benefit from the 2026 revision series as part of that subscription. The value of a subscription has never been higher.
- Purchase an annual pass to our 2026 PE and Sport revision resources outside of a subscription to the platform as a whole. The revision package allows you to access and benefit from all of the resources detailed above.
How to revise using these resources
Of course, revising is not simply a matter of having some resources. There needs to be a clear link between how these resources are used and the needs our students have. Below, I aim to provide three models by which the revision could be utilised. Please be reminded that any PE teacher in any school can adopt these models fully or partially, and I am in no doubt that many PE colleagues will simply adopt the resources in their own models. However, these three ways are provocative and worthy of consideration.
Model 1: Two-time mock
In this model, I encourage PE teachers to utilise the National Mock Exam 2026 in two different ways.
Here are the steps:
- As soon as it is available (January 2026), set the mock exam for your students. You can set it as a formal assessment or something simpler, like a practice or even open-book exam.
- Mark the exam using the mark scheme and provide the students with feedback.
- Complete the live revision show on the date it is broadcast and ensure that all students complete their revision note packs.
- Following the revision show, use two consecutive lessons for a redo of the mock exam. Initially, have the students revise the recently learned material from their notes packs and then, in the following lesson, potentially, have all students sit the National Mock Exam again under exam conditions, trying to apply the things they have learned.
- Ideally, have the students self-mark their second attempt at the mock exam.
Model 2: Slow it down
In this model, the PE teacher uses different elements of the live revision show over a period of a few lessons and models good practice to the students.
Here are the steps:
- Use the infographic, Hot Topics and National Mock Exam in any way you wish from January 2026 onwards.
- The PE teacher only attends the live revision show.
- In the three or four PE lessons following the live show, use the recording to drill down into a few of the topics at a time. During the lessons, show the coverage of one topic and then discuss it with the students and, where possible, model for and with them the key skills that are being taught.
- Repeat this process until the whole revision show is consumed and the exam date approaches.
Model 3: Automatise
In this model, the PE teacher recognises the crucial importance of the Hot Topics and causes responses on those Hot Topics to become automatic.
Here are the steps:
- Use the infographic, Hot Topics and National Mock Exam in any way you wish from January 2026 onwards.
- Set a weekly assignment (every week from January 1st until the exam occurs) covering the Hot Topics. Set the assignment to feature:
- 20 questions in test mode
- One week to complete
- Single attempt
- 0% passing standard (because it is single take)
- In the two weeks prior to the revision show and then after the revision show but before the exam, change the frequency of the assignment to twice a week and change the format of the assignment:
- 12 questions in test mode
- Three or four days to complete
- Multi attempt
- 80% passing standard
This model will allow you complete flexibility with how to use the mock exam and also the revision show itself, but will have the added benefit of your students completing hundreds of quiz questions under timed conditions in the last six months of their course. Your students will become hyperconfident with the core concepts and key language in relation to the 10 Hot Topics.
Please also note that Hot Topics for a particular course are identified on the courses on TheEverLearner.com, so setting them within an assignment is super easy and obvious.
Conclusions
So, there you have it. Three ways to use the revision resources that you might not have thought of. There are so many ways to do things but these will definitely serve you well.
More than anything, I look forward to broadcasting our shows, seeing those wonderful photos of classes of PE students in attendance, engaging with the material that so many of you kindly share and hearing about the impact of the 2026 revision on the experiences of your students' summer exams.
Thanks for reading.
James
