Year 12 PDHPE study notes and practice questions

For Year 11 and 12 students sitting the HSC, VCE, QCE, SACE, WACE and more. Each unit has short study notes, flashcards and practice questions, and the app builds timed practice exams from the whole course.

• Measuring health status and inequitiesEpidemiology and its limitations; Measures of health status; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; Socioeconomic status and the social gradient; Other groups experiencing inequities
• Chronic disease, injury and mental healthCardiovascular disease; Cancer; Diabetes; Injury; Mental health
• Health care system and health promotionMedicare and the PBS; Roles in the health care system; Private health insurance; Equity of access, costs and trends; Complementary and alternative health; Health promotion: Ottawa Charter and social justice
• Energy systems, training and adaptationsEnergy systems; Types of training and methods; Principles of training; Physiological adaptations
• Psychology, nutrition and recoveryMotivation; Anxiety and arousal; Psychological strategies; Nutrition and hydration; Recovery strategies
• Skill acquisition and assessmentStages of skill acquisition; Learner, environment and performance elements; Assessing performance; Characteristics of skilled performers
• Sports medicineSpecific needs of athletes; Preparation and environment; Medical conditions; Rehabilitation and return to play

4 multiple choice and 2 written questions. Try each one before you open the answer. Written answers show the model answer and what a full-marks response needs.

1. Question 1. Measuring health status and inequitiesMultiple choice

   Counting all people currently living with asthma measures…

   1. AMortality
   2. BIncidence
   3. CLife expectancy
   4. DPrevalence
   Show answer

   D. Prevalence

2. Question 2. Chronic disease, injury and mental healthMultiple choice

   Which is a non-modifiable risk factor for CVD?

   1. AFamily history
   2. BSmoking
   3. CHigh cholesterol
   4. DInactivity
   Show answer

   A. Family history

3. Question 3. Chronic disease, injury and mental health: cancer3 marks

   Outline the role of screening in reducing deaths from cancer, using an Australian example.

   Show model answer and marking criteria

   Model answer. Screening tests people who have no symptoms to detect cancer or pre-cancerous changes early. Finding cancer early means it is smaller and less likely to have spread, so treatment is more successful and survival is much higher. For example, the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program mails free home test kits to Australians aged 50 to 74 every two years, detecting bowel cancers early when they are highly treatable.

   A full-marks answer:

   • Screening tests people without symptoms to find cancer or pre-cancerous changes early
   • Early detection means treatment is more effective and survival higher
   • Names an Australian program with its target group (e.g. bowel screening kits for people 50 to 74)
4. Question 4. Health care system and health promotionMultiple choice

   Medicare was introduced in…

   1. A1984
   2. B2001
   3. C1946
   4. D1975
   Show answer

   A. 1984

5. Question 5. Health care system and health promotion: roles in the health care system3 marks

   Outline the roles of the federal, state and local governments in health care in Australia.

   Show model answer and marking criteria

   Model answer. The federal government funds and runs Medicare and the PBS, sets national health policy and provides funding to the states. State and territory governments run public hospitals, ambulance services and community and mental health services. Local councils manage environmental health such as food safety inspections and waste, run immunisation clinics and provide parks, pools and recreation facilities.

   A full-marks answer:

   • Federal: Medicare, PBS, national policy and funding
   • State/territory: public hospitals, ambulance, community and mental health services
   • Local: environmental health, immunisation, recreation facilities
6. Question 6. Energy systems, training and adaptationsMultiple choice

   The main fuel of the ATP-PC system is…

   1. AProtein
   2. BGlycogen with oxygen
   3. CCreatine phosphate
   4. DFat
   Show answer

   C. Creatine phosphate

A few of the 114 Year 12 PDHPE flashcards. In the app they use spaced repetition: rate each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy and it comes back just before you would forget it.

• EpidemiologyStudy of patterns and causes of health and disease in populations.
• AtherosclerosisFatty plaque build-up narrowing arteries.
• MedicareUniversal public health insurance (1984).
• ATP-PC systemCreatine phosphate; about 0–10 s maximal effort.

Senior PDHPE questions ask you to apply theory: a training method to an athlete, a health promotion strategy to a priority issue. Name the concept, explain how it works in that scenario and support it with data or an example, using the key terms precisely.

Press Study for me and the app builds a 15 to 20 minute session from the cards that are due, the mistakes that are due and questions on your weakest topics. Practice questions come in three levels, and anything you get wrong comes back 1, 3 and 7 days later until you get it right. When an exam is close, sit a timed practice exam with AI marking.

Your state, your exam

PDHPE goes by different names around Australia. In the app the course shows under your state’s name: NSW: PDHPE; VIC, QLD, ACT: Health & PE (PDHPE content); SA, NT: Health and Wellbeing (PDHPE content); WA, TAS: Health Studies (PDHPE content). Where a label says “content”, your state’s course is the closest match rather than the same course, so check the topics against your outline.

When you set up Year 12, you pick your state (NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, ACT or NT) and your subjects. The AI then pitches explanations and marking at your certificate’s level. Courses differ between states, so compare the units above with your course outline, and turn your class notes into extra decks for anything that’s different.

PDHPE in Year 11

Year 11 PDHPE study notes and practice questions.

More Year 12 courses

Year 12 Maths Advanced, Year 12 Maths Standard, Year 12 English, Year 12 Modern History, Year 12 Biology, Year 12 Chemistry, Year 12 Business Studies, Year 12 Legal Studies. All Year 11–12 subjects.