This question was attempted by many candidates and the candidates’ performance was fair. In part (a) candidates could not write characteristics of a physically health person, candidates wrote the components of physical fitness e.g. muscular strength, agility, power, muscular endurance, speed, flexibility and body composition.
In part (c) few candidates failed to mention type of muscles in the body, candidate mentioned or wrote muscle of different parts of the body e.g. biceps, triceps, rectus abdominis, deltoid, teres while some candidates wrote joints e.g. hinge, pivot, gliding, ball and socket.
The expected answers were as follows:
8(a) Characteristics of a healthy person
- long life expectancy;
- freedom from disease and infirmity;
- has adequate vigour and vitality;
- works without undue fatigue;
- feels enthusiastic and imaginative;
- ability to cope with emergencies;
- adjusts to stress.
(b) Types of muscles in the body
- voluntary/stripped/skeletal/striated muscle;
- involuntary/smooth muscle;
- cardiac muscle/heart.
