  We describe the approach adopted by our group to derive the star formation
history (SFH) of the chosen LMC field, as part of the experiment to compare the
predictions obtained by different groups with the synthetic Colour-Magnitude
diagram method. We point out what are the evolutionary characteristics of the
observed stellar populations, and present the SFH scenario which appears to
better account for them. We emphasize the importance of adopting a {\it
critical} approach when dealing with this method.
