The agility course requires you to run around a series of cones in a ‘slalom’ fashion and is designed to assess your ability to change direction whilst responding to incidents (agility).

You have 34 seconds to complete the course.

How to lay out the course:

1. Measure and mark 2 cone placements 13 meters apart.
2. The ‘Start’ cone must have an extended line approximately 0.5 of a meter either side of it.
3. Measure 4.33 meters from the ‘Start’ cone along a straight line towards the ‘Top’ cone and from this point, measure and mark cone placements, 1.5 and 3 meters at 90 degrees and to the right.
4. Repeat the above measurement but this time from the ‘Top’ cone towards the ‘Start’ cone.
5. The course should be sited to allow maximum clearance from walls and obstructions (minimum 2 meters).

How to complete the course:

1. Start at the Blue Start cone.
2. Run straight to the top blue cone around the cone.
3. Run back to the start blue cone around it.
4. Run through gate 1.
5. Run through gate 2.
6. Run up and around top blue cone.
7. Run through gate 2.
8. Run through gate 1.
9. Run around the start blue cone back up the course and around the top blue cone.
10. Run straight back down and around the start blue cone.
11. Run back up the course and finish parallel to gate 1.

The agility course requires you to run around a series of cones in a ‘slalom’ fashion and is designed to assess your ability to change direction whilst responding to incidents (agility).

This test requires you to run back and forth between 2 points, 15 metres* (49 feet) apart whilst keeping pace with a series of 'bleeps'.

As each level commences you will hear 2 bleeps, the time between the bleeps will get shorter and this will encourage you to get a little faster to keep intime with the bleeps.

Your aim is to arrive at the end of each length when you hear the bleep. During your fitness test if you fail to reach the end line in time with the bleep you will be cautioned , if the next line is missed a 2nd caution will be given, if you then are unable to reach the end line for a 3rd consecutive time you will be withdrawn from the test and a test fail documented. If this happens during your practise please press finish to see how well you performed.

If you are on a 1st or 2nd caution and then you catch up with the bleep, you will go back to no warnings. This however does not apply on the last shuttle (level 5.4),you must be within 1.5 meters of the end line on the last shuttle to successfully pass the test, if verbal warnings are in place then the candidate must reach the finish line on or before the bleep to pass the test.

At your assessment centre the minimum score to pass the Bleep Test is to reach level 5.4 (Level 5, lap 4).

*15 metres is roughly 20 adult paces, if you are unsure you have the correct distance it is better to overestimate.