Strengths, weaknesses and a performance profile
Physical Education · Key Stage 3 · The School
What a performance profile is
A PERFORMANCE PROFILE rates yourself, or is rated by a coach, across several named skills your sport needs, usually on a simple scale such as 1 to 10. Plotted together it shows a shape — strong in some areas, weaker in others — rather than one single score for "how good" you are.
Reading the gaps
The tallest points on a profile are already strong; more practice there produces smaller and smaller gains — DIMINISHING RETURNS. The lowest points are where the same amount of practice time produces the biggest improvement, because there is more room to grow and the sport is being genuinely held back by that gap.
Building a plan from it
Pick the ONE or TWO lowest-scoring areas rather than trying to fix everything at once. Set specific practice for those, over several weeks. Then profile yourself again using the same skills and the same scale, to see whether the gap actually closed.
PASSING: 8. SHOOTING: 7. FOOTWORK: 7. MARKING: 4. FITNESS: 6. The two highest scores, passing and shooting, are already strong — more time there helps only a little. MARKING at 4 is the clear gap, and it is also a skill every game needs. A sensible plan spends the next month mainly on marking, not on making an 8 into a 9.