Usage Notes - Army Physical Fitness Test Score (APFT) Calculator
This page contains various notes which describe or clarify the scoring methods used by the calculator.
Scoring Modes
The calculator can score APFT results in two different modes.
- Promotion mode awards points in accordance with AR 600-8-19 (Enlisted Promotions and Reductions) for alternate aerobic events and push-up or sit-up events which have been waived due to a soldiers permanent profile. This mode should be used when scoring soldiers for the purpose of determining promotion points.
- Record mode does not award points for alternate aerobic events or waived events. This is the default mode.
Extended Scale
The score calculator can award scores beyond the maximum of 300 points. In accordance with FM 21-20, the extended scale option will award one point for each additional push-up and sit-up beyond the max, and one point for each six-second decrease in time from max, ONLY if all three events are maxed.
Alternate Event Scoring
Alternate aerobic events (including the 2.5-mile walk, 6.2-mile bike, and 800-yard swim) are GO / NO-GO events. According to FM 21-20 (pg. 14-20), "soldiers who do push-up and sit-up events but who take an alternate aerobic event are not awarded promotion points for APFT performance." However, AR 600-8-19 (Enlisted Promotions and Reductions, 20 March 2008) provides for a score conversion for the purposes of promotion. For the purposes of this calculator it is assumed that the more recent promotions policy supercedes the outdated sentence in FM 21-20.
AR 600-8-19, para. 3-44 b.(1)(b): Effective 1 April 1995, Soldiers taking an alternate event for the 2-mile run and receiving a passing score receive a score for that event equal to the average of the scores for the other two events.
Score results from this utility are calculated in this manner and factored into the overall APFT score.
Waived Event Scoring
Per AR 600-8-19, soldiers with permanent profiles for the push-up or sit-up events receive 60 points for each waived event. Enter the character "P" as the number of repetitions of push-ups and/or sit-ups to tell the calculator to exempt these events, and award 60 points.
AR 600-8-19, para. 3-44 b.(1)(a): Those Soldiers with permanent physical profiles for the sit-up and/or push-ups events will be granted 60 points for each event waived and use the actual score for each event taken and must qualify on the 2-mile run or approved alternate test according to FM 21-20.
Also see AR 600-8-19, para. 3-44 b.(2) regarding the scoring of soldiers with temporary profiles for the purposes of promotion points.