This research aims at designing educational units using the bifurcated method and knowing its impact on cognitive achievement in basketball. For the academic year, 2020/2021، the researcher randomly selected the research sample for (60) students from third-year students at the Faculty of Physical Education in Qena - South Valley University. The research، and the results showed that the divergent method contributed in a positive way to learning some skills in basketball and the cognitive achievement of the experimental group، and the superiority of the members of the experimental group that used the bifurcated method over the control group in learning the skills in the basketball under study.