This question was attempted by many candidates and their performance was fair. In part (a) many candidates correctly defined somatotype with examples of somatotype although,a few candidates wrote wrong answers that somatotype is the grouping of people in various areas of their cultural background instead of classification of human body according to size and shape/physical features . In part (b) few candidates correctly mentioned recreational activities in which the aged could be engaged while many candidates wrote the conventional recreational activities such as mountaineering, cycling, swimming, playing ball game, e.g football volleyball and tennis, running (marathon race), boxing and jumping for aged activities. In part (c) many candidates performed poorly by writing wrong answers about the effect of alcohol such as affects rate of excretion, affects beating of heart, slows down breathing, leads to mental illness, lead to death and cause poverty in the family as effects of alcohol on the athlete.

The expected answers are as follows:

9 (a) SOMATOTYPE
A method of classifying the human body into three basic types by estimating the dominance of fats, muscles and bones.
OR Somatotype is the classification of human body according to size and shape/physical features.
Classification
Size and shape/physical features

(b) RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN WHICH THE AGED COULD BE ENGAGED
- walking/jogging
- folk tales
- watching television/movies/video/cinema
- chess
- reading story books/news paper/magazine/journals
- ayo
- snake and ladder
- ludo
- draft/draught
- singing/listening to music
- dancing
- visits
- recreational parks/clubs

(c) EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON THE ATHLETE
- reduces neuro-muscular control/coordination
- causes over-dilation of blood vessels
- reduces muscular performance and work capacity
- impairs judgement
- leads to misconduct behaviours
- damages internal organs/named