The body systems, energy systems, biomechanics, skill acquisition and training that determine how well a person can perform.
These are the statements the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education syllabus makes about Core 2: Factors Affecting Performance. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
How the three systems cooperate during exercise, and what limits performance when one is the weakest link.
The three energy systems, their fuel sources and durations, and which dominates for a given activity.
Levers, force application, centre of gravity and projectile motion, used to explain why one technique is more efficient than another.
The stages of skill learning, feedback types and practice design, and why a drill works or stops working as skill develops.
Matching a training method to the fitness component it actually develops, rather than to the sport it resembles.
Fuel and fluid needs before, during and after exercise, and the evidence on supplementation.
Principles of training — specificity, overload, progression, reversibility — applied to designing a programme for a stated athlete.
Recovery as a training variable rather than an afterthought, and the evidence behind common recovery modalities.
Arousal, anxiety and motivation, and the techniques used to regulate them under pressure.
Overload, progression, specificity, reversibility and variety, and what happens when one of them is ignored.
Joint types, levers and muscle action, and how the mechanics explain both performance and injury.
What the evidence supports, what it does not, and the difference between a permitted supplement and a banned substance.
HSC PDHPE - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Core 2: Factors Affecting Performance are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Personal Development, Health and Physical Education uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Core 2: Factors Affecting Performance is module 2 of 4 in Personal Development, Health and Physical Education. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Personal Development, Health and Physical Education dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.