Practical Performance, Officiating and Vocational Workplace Skills (NSQF Physical Education)
Practical Performance, Officiating and Vocational Workplace Skills covers the marks earned outside the theory paper: performing skills in a chosen game, conducting fitness tests, officiating a match, and the employability skills NSQF expects at Level 4.
Fitness testing battery
- 50 m standing start – speed
- 600 m run/walk – cardiovascular endurance
- 30 s sit-ups – muscular endurance
- Sit and reach – flexibility
- Standing broad jump – explosive power
- 4 × 10 m shuttle run – agility
- BMI – body composition Every record sheet carries name, age, date, equipment, trial number, score and tester's signature.
Officiating
Know the officials (referee, umpire, scorer, linesmen, table officials) and their duties, the standard signals, and score-sheet entries. Pre-match checks: ground and equipment, player eligibility, kit, toss. Officials must be consistent, positioned to see the play, and must not reverse a decision because of crowd or player pressure.
Worked example
You administer the 30-second sit-up. The performer lies with knees at 90°, feet held, hands crossed on the chest. Count only repetitions where the elbows touch the thighs and the shoulders return to the floor. Tester 1 records 22 correct reps plus 5 where the hands came off the chest. The score is 22, not 27, and the sheet notes "22 - correct technique only".
Vocational skills
Communication and teamwork, digital literacy (spreadsheets for results), entrepreneurial skills (organising a paid coaching camp), green skills (waste segregation at events) and occupational safety (first aid, warm-up, safe equipment).
Traps
Counting flawed repetitions to inflate a score; skipping the warm-up before testing; omitting the date and equipment from the record sheet; calling a linesman a "referee"; changing a decision after an appeal.