Sports aptitude test

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Almost all institutions in Germany , Austria and Switzerland , the physical education teachers trained (universities, colleges, sports schools), today demand a sports fitness test , also sport entrance exam called as a prerequisite for a sports studies .

In addition, the police , customs , fire brigade and the Federal Armed Forces carry out special sports tests as part of their selection process for training in order to check the physical suitability of their applicants. The candidates must meet job-related motor skills.

Sports aptitude tests for university applicants

Terminologically, a distinction is often made between the terms sports entrance test and sports aptitude test :

  • Sports entrance examination means that every applicant must undergo a practical examination before admission to sports studies, which is valid nationwide and does not necessarily have to be completed at the institution of the later course.
  • Sports aptitude test means that the applicant must provide evidence that he has certain minimum standards of general physical performance and a wide range of practical and technical sports skills that can be expected to successfully study the subject.

The test of self-realization covers the entire canon of basic properties such as strength , speed , speed , endurance , agility , coordination and basic skills in the most important school sports such as athletics , swimming , gymnastics , a team sport and a setback game .

The objective performance measurement is carried out using tried and tested test procedures such as the Vienna coordination course by Siegbert A. Warwitz and with the help of stopwatches, measuring tape and lists of criteria.

Legally, the aptitude test for sports is the necessary assessment of aptitude for taking up sports studies. However, this is not an entrance examination in the form of an automatic entitlement to a place in a sports degree , because in most cases applicants still have to overcome the university's internal admission restriction ( numerus clausus ) in order to ultimately be admitted to a degree in sports. The certificate of the successfully passed test is usually valid for two years.

The test procedures for determining suitability for a sports degree are neither internationally nor uniformly regulated within the Federal Republic of Germany . Accordingly, the institutions find it difficult to mutually recognize the performance requirements. The main causes are the different orientations and requirement profiles of the individual universities:

Some give up their own aptitude tests and recognize the German Sports Badge and rescue swimming badge of the DLRG as evidence of formal qualifications (for example, the Universities of Bielefeld and Osnabrück ). Others focus the assessment of aptitude on the testing of certain performance in selected sports (for example the German Sport University Cologne or the universities of Kiel , Bochum and Karlsruhe ). Still others also attach importance to recording the general functionality of the musculoskeletal system (regardless of the type of sport) and additionally test the corresponding basic properties using scientific test procedures (e.g. the universities of Flensburg , Münster , Kassel , Gießen ). In Berlin, however, there is no independently conducted test at all; instead, the exam passed at another university counts.

In contrast to the German universities, which largely limit themselves to checking their own practical experience, the Swiss University of Bern tests applicants for their general coordination skills, regardless of their sport, their technical skills in selected sports and their cognitive prerequisites for a promising sport course.

The sport aptitude test with most of the applicants takes place twice a year at the German Sport University in Cologne. The one-day test consists of 20 individual exams, 19 of which must be passed successfully. A special regulation applies to top athletes. You can fail in a maximum of two partial exams. The exam can be repeated indefinitely. A new registration and fee payment is due for each repeat examination, which takes place only in its entirety and not in partial areas. In February 2015, 1,081 applicants competed in Cologne. The failure rate was 53%.

Most entrance examinations do not record the intellectual level and the sports science or sports didactic knowledge of the applicants, as these are determined by the numerus clausus, within which certain subjects may be weighted, as well as in the final examinations (e.g. state examination , Bachelor or Master ) form the focus.

Sports aptitude tests with the police

A sports aptitude test must also be taken when selecting applicants for police training in Germany . Different physical abilities are tested with different forms of exercise: coordination, flexibility, speed, endurance, strength and occasionally also swimming ability.

The 16 state police and the federal police design their own sports aptitude tests, although many parts of the examination - u. a. the Cooper test or the box boomerang test - can be used in the same or a comparable form. For each part of the examination, certain minimum requirements apply, which must be met for further participation in the selection process.

From the individual results of the exercises, an overall grade or a total of points is calculated, on the basis of which the applicant is placed in a ranking list.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Warwitz SA (1976): Vienna coordination course , In: The sport-scientific experiment. Planning-implementation-evaluation-interpretation. Schorndorf (Hofmann) p. 48-62
  2. ↑ https://www.sport-eignungspruefung.de/sporteignungstest/sporteignungstests-termine-lösungen-ansprechpartner/
  3. ↑ Guth K./Mery M./Mohr A .: The sports test for training at the police and customs , Bildungspark Verlag , Offenbach am Main 2010, p. 11 f.