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The CSET-PE exam has 125 questions and runs 5 hours.
These 10 free CSET-PE questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the California Subject Examinations for Teachers: Physical Education blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A California high school is reviewing its master schedule for compliance with state physical education requirements. Under the California Education Code, students in grades 9 through 12 enrolled in physical education must receive instruction totaling at least:
Correct answer: C - 400 minutes each 10 schooldays
In a badminton unit, students who practiced the clear, drop, and smash in a randomly ordered sequence scored lower on an end-of-practice skills check than students who practiced each stroke in separate blocks. One week later, the randomly practiced group significantly outperformed the blocked group on that same skills check. This pattern BEST illustrates that:
Correct answer: B - Random practice depresses practice performance but improves retention
A student's basketball free throw falls well short of the rim. The teacher responds, "Your shooting elbow drifted away from your body as you released." This statement is BEST classified as:
Correct answer: B - Knowledge of performance
A student rises onto the balls of the feet to perform a heel raise. This movement is MOST accurately classified as which class of lever?
Correct answer: B - Second class, because the resistance lies between the axis and the muscular force
A student performs a shot put, releasing the shot from approximately shoulder height. To achieve maximum horizontal distance, the optimal angle of release for this student is:
Correct answer: A - Less than 45 degrees
A teacher wants to increase sustained participation among the least-skilled students in a fitness unit. Which practice is MOST consistent with building a mastery-oriented motivational climate?
Correct answer: D - Recognizing improvement over each student's own previous score
A kindergarten teacher watches a student travel forward across the gymnasium with an uneven rhythm, stepping onto one foot and then quickly closing with the trailing foot, always leading with the same foot and never switching. Which locomotor skill is the student performing?
Correct answer: D - Gallop
A teacher wants students to carry tactical understanding developed in a badminton unit into the unit that follows. Which activity belongs to the SAME game category and therefore offers the strongest tactical transfer?
Correct answer: D - Volleyball
A teacher administers a back-saver sit-and-reach test at the start and end of a two-week period and obtains nearly identical scores for each student. The teacher then uses those scores to draw conclusions about each student's overall physical fitness. The primary problem with this practice is that the test:
Correct answer: C - Is reliable but not valid for the conclusion being drawn
A teacher plans a striking lesson for a class in which students range from precontrol to proficiency. The teacher sets up a batting station offering four options - a stationary tee, a self-toss, a partner toss, and a pitched ball - and has each student select the entry point at which they can succeed, then move up as they are ready. This lesson BEST reflects which teaching style?
Correct answer: C - Inclusion
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