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Dear PE colleagues,
For this week’s blog article, I am delighted to be able to release the news that a brand-new offer is available for PE and Sports classroom-based teachers and students. As of now, all PE teachers are invited to utilise our new course:
PE Exam Technique - Powered by The Roadmap
This course, metacognitive to its core, will utterly demystify the concept of exam technique in PE exams. If you have or have had PE or Sport students who “know their stuff” but “just can’t get it down on paper”, this course is for you.
Currently, PE and Sports students miss more marks on average than they hit across a range of PE and Sport exams, and we, collectively across the PE teaching sector, need to change this. Let me be clear: if we take all PE and Sport external exams over the past five years and we ask what percentage of raw marks have been achieved by students sitting those exams, the answer is that the “missed marks” outnumber the “hit marks”. Collectively, PE and Sport students hit significantly less than 50% of raw marks on average. This is untenable to me. Whilst it is true that many –perhaps even all– PE and Sport students will miss some marks in their exams due to a lack of knowledge, it is my opinion that it is far more common for PE and Sport students to miss marks due to a lack of metacognitive strategies and, therefore, a poor exam technique.
What is the course?
Our new course features 20 lessons.
Each lesson features a short video ,with online note-taking available next to the video,
and tiered quizzing in all of practice, test and checkpoint mode.
What is the content?
The course is split into two halves:Chapter 1: Introduction to PE and Sport exams
This chapter features lessons on what the papers include, what order to complete the paper in, what to do once you have answered all the questions, etc. Lesson titles include:
- Paper structures
- Processing a PE and Sport exam
- Introduction to The Roadmap
The chapter covers every type of PE and Sport exam question the student may face and demonstrates (within the video) and quizzes (within practice, test and checkpoint mode) how to go about answering these questions.
- Lessons include:
- Extended-writing questions
- ‘Describe’
- ‘Explain’
- ‘Evaluate’ and ‘Assess’
The course is “powered by The Roadmap.” What is The Roadmap?
The Roadmap is a process of thinking, writing and answering and is based on command words. It is a visual and intuitive tool that helps students to think about how to answer certain command terms. For example:
The aim of each roadmap is to help PE and Sport students to understand how to format their exam answers. Above, for example, the student has two roads to travel to “pick up Marks”. If the question was “Compare bone and muscle tissue” and three marks were available, the student would need to make three comparisons. They can use the ‘Compare’ writing frame, available for every command word, to do this:
Their process of answering might look something like this:
And their completed answer might look like this:
Notice that the exam technique, in this case of making comparisons, is demystified by the scaffold of The Roadmap and also the writing frame.
How do my students access the Exam Technique course?
PE and Sport Exam Technique - Powered by The Roadmap is a feature of our Gold subscription via TheEverLearner.com, and colleagues are encouraged to consider subscribing if not yet a subscriber, or to upgrade from a Bronze or Silver package to a Gold in order to benefit from the Exam Technique course. Here’s a quick visual of our three package tiers:
Current subscribers should contact their account manager for upgrades to Gold.
A note on metacognition
Metacognitive strategies are critical in examined PE and Sport courses. In fact, there is a very strong argument to suggest that success on PE and Sport examined courses is driven more by our students having access and fluency with metacognitive examination strategies than it is by PE and Sport subject knowledge. Naturally, the ideal scenario is that the student has both, and this is exactly why we encourage PE departments to use the PE and Sport Exam Technique - Powered by The Roadmap course to develop relevant and essential exam technique strategies alongside students’ PE and Sport subject knowledge.Thank you for reading. As this blog post is being released on Wednesday 24th December 2025, I will wish you a wonderful holiday, merry Christmas and a thrilling, metacognition-filled new year!
James