Sports Skills and Game Rules (NSQF Physical Education)
Sports Skills and Game Rules tests rule knowledge for the games in the PSEB NSQF syllabus (volleyball, basketball, hockey, football, kabaddi, kho-kho, badminton, athletics) and your ability to apply a rule to a live match situation rather than recite it.
Core playing facts
- Volleyball: 6 players a side, court 18 × 9 m, net 2.43 m (men) / 2.24 m (women), rally point to 25 (15 in the deciding set), maximum 3 touches, libero may replace any back-row player without using a substitution.
- Basketball: 5 players, FIBA 4 × 10 min, 24-second shot clock, 8 seconds to cross half-court, 3-point arc 6.75 m, disqualification on 5 fouls.
- Hockey: 11 players, 4 quarters × 15 min; penalty corner and penalty stroke are the two main penalty awards.
- Kabaddi: 7 players; a raid must finish within 30 seconds; the bonus line gives 1 point; "lona" (all-out) gives 2 points.
- Football: 11 players, 2 × 45 min, offside and direct/indirect free kicks.
Worked example
In volleyball Team A wins a rally while receiving, so it gains the point and the right to serve; players rotate one position clockwise and the player entering position 1 serves. During the rally a teammate takes a fourth touch. Ruling: fourth touch is a fault - point and serve to the opponents. If instead the scorer notices before the serve that a player is standing out of rotation, that is a positional fault and the point goes to the opposing team.
Traps
Mixing up net heights and court sizes; giving volleyball 15 points in every set; forgetting that a block does not count as a team touch; awarding 1 point for a kabaddi all-out; confusing a penalty corner with a penalty stroke; quoting basketball rules from another code with 12-minute quarters.