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A Level PE Skiing
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@rjs, Thanks for clarifying, so it sounds like a good club skier rather than entering the national setup.
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rjs wrote:
@Henwc, My reading of the AQA document is that it doesn't require someone to be at national team level, just that they need to be able to demonstrate that they know what they are doing in two properly organized races. I don't think that someone would be able to get to this standard though unless they had been doing race training for a few years.

I do think that a student would need to have been working with an experienced coach for some time, typically in a club context, for them to be able to meet the performance analysys assessment requirements when they are looking back at their own performance during the two races.
I think this is the correct reading of the AQA criteria. I’ve done a bunch of GCSE assessments and three or four A level assessments, but not since the last A Level specification revision, which moved the non-examined assessment much more towards a full competitive environment. As @rjs said, you don’t need to be at a national squad level to get top marks but IMO you won’t reach top marks just by being a good holiday skier who has had lots of family holidays since a young age. The criteria specify two different disciplines in skiing, from the list of Slalom, GS, SuperG or Downhill, with timing and the presence of other competitors. Realistically you are only going to satisfy those requirements within the context of a race club.
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Possibly BASI 1 would be an option + a some race videos. Hard for an assessor to argue a lack of competence if you have an instruction qualification.
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you won’t reach top marks just by being a good holiday skier who has had lots of family holidays since a young age

This seems fair enough. That might amount to 14 years of one-week holidays, probably more than half those without any coaching/training at all. You wouldn't expect somebody who had spent 14 weeks playing soccer, or learning gymnastics, or sailing, to be able to achieve top marks, however naturally talented they were.
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