Beep test.
My PE teacher was quite an old man. He had grey hair and always wore tracksuit trousers and trainers with a faded T shirt. He also had those glasses on a chain, which just made him look older. He was generally quite shouty and scary. And old.

I was always really, really awful at 'the beep test'.
The beep test was an excercise where the teacher played a tape, we were lined up at each end of the hall and when it beeped we had to run to the other side before it beeped again. The beeps would go faster and faster and eventually people started dropping out. Some kids could go up to like, level 10, which meant they'd get a high mark.

Although I'm quite skinny, I'm basically just physically unfit. I get tired after walking up a flight of stairs. I was always the second person to drop out, after the 'larger' kid in our class. This meant I was failing at gym, I was also crap at swinging on the ropes and sports etc.

However, in my last year, after failing the beep test for the last time ever and having quite a low mark for PE, the teacher let me untangle a netball net and marked me on that. It meant I passed PE and the only thing I failed was maths. Turns out he was a nice guy and not a scary, shouty pedo after all.
(Lalalalou, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 21:18, 3 replies)

I had to do the beep test too!
Ah, it brings back memories...
(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Thu 19 Nov 2009, 23:51, closed)

Last I heard
was that they've 'modernised' it and my little brother now has to do it not only listening to beeps but to various top 40 songs and/or crap RnB.

It's supposed to motivate them.
Ugh.
(Lalalalou, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 13:21, closed)

Fucking beep test
It was so competitive at my school. I don't know why anyone gave a shit.
(ElGranto, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 7:39, closed)