Q.Explain the purpose and procedure of any two batteries for the Motor Fitness Test.

SAI Khelo India Fitness Test

The SAI Khelo India Fitness Test is a school-level physical fitness assessment carried out under India's Khelo India movement, coordinated through the Sports Authority of India (SAI). Its purpose is not to pick out champion athletes but to give every student — whatever their sporting ability — a simple, standardised snapshot of their own physical fitness, in the same spirit as a routine medical check-up.

The idea behind any national school fitness-testing programme is straightforward: fitness cannot be judged from appearance, or from how a student performs in one favourite sport alone. A student may run well but lack flexibility; another may be very flexible but weak in the arms. A standardised test battery — a fixed set of simple tasks, performed the same way with the same equipment everywhere — makes it possible to measure different aspects of fitness fairly, and to compare a student's results against age-and-gender norms and against their own earlier scores.

Programmes of this kind generally look at a spread of fitness qualities together rather than just one — strength, endurance, flexibility, speed and agility are the qualities most commonly assessed, because together they give a rounded picture of how a body moves and copes with physical demand. These qualities are typically measured through simple, low-equipment tasks: timed runs, standing jumps, push-ups or curl-ups, reach tests, and shuttle runs are common examples. Several such individual tests — each with its own precise procedure and scoring — are covered separately elsewhere in this chapter's test-and-measurement content.

Harvard Step Test Formula

The Harvard Step Test measures cardiovascular endurance -- how efficiently the heart and lungs recover after sustained physical exertion. A person steps up and down on a bench continuously for up to 5 minutes (300 seconds) at a fixed rate of 30 steps per minute, paced by a metronome at 120 beats per minute, using a bench 20 inches high for men and 16 inches high for women. If the subject cannot continue for the full 5 minutes, the test stops early, and the actual number of seconds completed is what gets used in the calculation -- never the full 300 seconds.

Immediately after the exercise stops, the subject sits down, and their pulse is counted once, over a fixed 30-second window taken between 1 minute and 1.5 minutes after exercise. This single pulse count is then used to calculate the test's result, the Physical Fitness Index (PFI):

PFI = (Duration of the exercise in seconds x 100) divided by (5.5 x Pulse count taken between 1 and 1.5 minutes after exercise)

The resulting PFI score is then read against exactly three interpretation bands -- not a wider five-band scale:

• Up to 49 = Poor
• 50 to 80 = Average
• 81 and above = Good …