Navy Physical Readiness Test Score Calculator

Understanding the Navy Physical Readiness Test (PRT)

The Physical Readiness Test is the performance half of the Navy Physical Fitness Assessment; the other half is the Body Composition Assessment. Guide-5A states that the PRT exists to give Commanding Officers and Officers in Charge a means to assess the general fitness of their Sailors, and that it complies with DoDI 1308.03, the Department of Defense physical fitness and body composition programme procedures. Two assessment cycles run each calendar year: Cycle-1 from 1 January to 30 June and Cycle-2 from 1 July to 31 December.

The current PRT has exactly three scored modalities: push-ups for upper-body muscular endurance, the forearm plank for abdominal and core muscular endurance, and one cardiorespiratory event. They must be completed on the same day, in that order, with at least five and no more than fifteen minutes between modalities, and they must be administered by a qualified Command Fitness Leader or Assistant CFL. One-on-one testing is prohibited. Curl-ups no longer exist on the test — the forearm plank replaced them, announced in NAVADMIN 304/20 and first assessed in the cycle that opened in March 2021. Any tool still asking for curl-up repetitions is scoring a retired event.

The default cardio event is the 1.5-mile run or walk. Guide-5A also authorises, at the CO or OIC's discretion, a 2000-metre row on a Concept-2 (Models D and E with Performance Monitor 3, 4 or 5), a treadmill 1.5 mile at a fixed 1.0 percent incline, a 500-yard or 450-metre swim, and a stationary bike. Only the first four are printed in the scoring tables; the bike is calorie-based and Guide-5A directs users to the official PFA mobile application, because the calculation depends on bike model, calorie burn and body weight. That is why this page offers the run, row and both swims but deliberately declines to guess at a bike score.

An introduction to Guide-5A point scoring

Navy PRT scoring is a table lookup, not a curve. For each modality, Guide-5A Table 4-1 publishes twelve performance levels for your sex and age band, worth 100, 95, 90, 85, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60, 55, 50 and 45 points. Those twelve numbers map onto named categories and levels: Outstanding High, Medium and Low at 100, 95 and 90; Excellent High, Medium and Low at 85, 80 and 75; Good High, Medium and Low at 70, 65 and 60; Satisfactory High and Medium at 55 and 50; and a single Probationary row at 45. Anything short of the Probationary standard is a Failure, which Guide-5A defines as performance in the lowest tenth percentile.

Two things follow from that structure and both are routinely got wrong by unofficial calculators. First, points are awarded at the level you actually reach, not proportionally between levels. If the 70-point row for your band asks for 64 push-ups and the 65-point row asks for 55, then 60 push-ups is worth 65 points, not 67 or 68. Second, the overall PRT score is not a sum. Guide-5A section 5 states that the overall PRT score is a category-level performance corresponding to the average of the points accumulated from the individual modality tests, and the NAVADMIN 264/25 fact sheet confirms that a numerical overall average score from 0 to 100 is what appears in Block 29 of an evaluation. There is no 300-point total anywhere in the programme.

Working the calculator: how to use each PRT field

1. Age on test day selects the band. Guide-5A bands are 17-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64 and 65 and over, so the field accepts 17 to 99 rather than stopping at 60.
2. Scoring table chooses the male or female standards. Combat arms personnel (SEAL, EOD, SWCC and Fleet Diver designators) are graded against the age-normed male standard regardless of sex, so select male standards in that case.
3. Push-ups is the count of repetitions taken to at least a 90-degree elbow bend with the head, shoulders, back, buttocks and legs in a straight line. Resting is permitted only in the up position.
4. Forearm plank is entered as minutes and seconds because that is how the tables are printed. The event is stopped at 3:24 for males and 3:14 for females, so a longer hold cannot buy more points.
5. Cardio modality then cardio time in minutes and seconds, taken from a stopwatch to the nearest second. Choose the run entry for a treadmill test at 1.0 percent incline.
6. Test site elevation switches between Table 4-1 (below 5,000 feet) and Table 4-2 (above 5,000 feet). Only the cardio standards differ; push-ups and plank are identical in both.
7. Select Score my PRT. You get the three event scores, the category level for each, the overall average, and the precise amount of additional work each event needs to reach its next level. The published table for your band is then rendered underneath with the rows you met highlighted.

The next-level figures are the part worth lingering on. Because the scale is stepped, effort is not rewarded smoothly: a Sailor two repetitions short of a level gains five points for two repetitions, while a Sailor who has just cleared a level gains nothing for the next eight. Reading the gap column tells you which modality is currently cheap and which is expensive, and it changes every time you move up a band or an age group.

The scoring formula behind an overall PRT average

Let P be the published point set for a modality, that is P = {45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100}. For a repetition event, let x be the repetitions performed and x_p the repetitions the table requires for p points in your sex and age band. The event score is the highest point value whose requirement you satisfy:

The plank and every cardio event are timed, and shorter is better, so the inequality reverses. With t the recorded time in seconds and t_p the table standard for p points:

If no member of P qualifies, the set is empty and the modality is a Failure rather than a low score. Guide-5A defines Failure as performance in the lowest tenth percentile, and Guide-1 makes clear that a non-combat-arms Sailor passes the PRT only by scoring Probationary or above in every event they are medically cleared for. The overall score is then the plain arithmetic mean of the three modality scores:

That average is then read back onto the same twelve-level ladder to give the overall category level, taking the highest level at or below the average. Guide-1 describes the combat arms passing mark as Good-High, "i.e. 70% or above", which is the behaviour this floor rule reproduces:

Because the ladder is stepped, the marginal value of training is not constant. Between two adjacent rows the effective points-per-repetition, or points-per-second for a timed event, is five divided by the width of the step you are standing in:

One more conversion is worth having in front of you when you plan run pacing, since the tables give total time rather than pace. Dividing the target time by the 1.5-mile distance gives the per-mile pace you actually have to hold:

The twelve levels and their category names, exactly as printed in Guide-5A Table 4-1, are:

A worked example scored against the 25-29 male table

Take a 27-year-old Sailor testing at sea level on male standards who records 70 push-ups, a 2:50 forearm plank, and 10:40 for the 1.5-mile run. The relevant rows of Guide-5A Table 4-1 for males aged 25 to 29 are:

Push-ups. Seventy repetitions clears the 69 required for 80 points but falls short of the 73 required for 85. The event scores 80 points, Excellent Medium. Plank. Two minutes fifty seconds is 170 seconds, which clears the 167 seconds (2:47) required for 80 points but not the 176 seconds (2:56) required for 85. Again 80 points, Excellent Medium. Run. Ten minutes forty seconds is 640 seconds. The 80-point standard is 10:30, or 630 seconds, so it misses by ten seconds and falls to the 75-point standard of 10:52. The run scores 75 points, Excellent Low.

Averaging gives (80 + 80 + 75) ÷ 3 = 78.3 points. Applying the floor rule, 78.3 sits on the 75-point rung, so the overall PRT result is Excellent Low. Note how misleading a summed model would be here: 235 out of 300 sounds like a mid-band score, but the Navy never computes that number and it maps to nothing in the instruction.

The next-level column is where the example earns its keep. Push-ups need three more repetitions to reach 85, the plank needs six more seconds, and the run needs ten seconds. Ten seconds is the cheapest of the three, and it is worth checking what pace that means: 10:30 over 1.5 miles is 630 ÷ 1.5 = 420 seconds per mile, an even 7:00 per mile, against the 7:07 per mile actually run. Holding seven-minute miles lifts the run to 80 points, the average to exactly 80.0, and the overall result from Excellent Low to Excellent Medium. Adding three push-ups instead reaches the same 80.0 average by a different route. Both are one-level gains; the pacing fix is the one you can rehearse on a track this week.

Reading your category level and what it triggers

A PRT score is not just a number; each band carries administrative consequences under OPNAVINST 6110.1L and PRP Guide-1. For non-combat-arms Sailors the PRT is passed at Probationary or above in every medically cleared event, but a Probationary result in even one event means enrolment in the Fitness Enhancement Program until an official PFA is passed at Good-Low or better across the board. Combat arms personnel — the SEAL, EOD, SWCC and Fleet Diver designators — must reach Good-High, stated in Guide-1 as 70 percent or above, against the age-normed male standard, and anything below that also means remedial participation.

The score interacts with the Body Composition Assessment as well. Under the revised procedure announced in NAVADMIN 264/25, the BCA is a two-step process: Step-1 is a sex-neutral Waist-to-Height Ratio, passed at 0.5499 or below, and Step-2 is a sex-normed body composition calculation for anyone who does not clear Step-1. A Sailor who is not within BCA standards can still be granted an overall PFA pass under the High-Performance BCA Exemption, but only by scoring an overall Outstanding-Low or higher with no modality below Excellent-Medium, and only if they participated in and passed all three modalities with no medical waiver on any of them. That is a demanding combination — roughly 90 points overall with an 80-point floor on every event — and it is why the per-event levels on this page matter as much as the average.

Failures carry further weight. Three PFA failures in the most recent four-year period route an Active Component Sailor to administrative separation processing, failures are reported in Block 29 of evaluations alongside the numerical overall average, and a Sailor who has failed the most recent assessment is ineligible for reenlistment or extension until they meet standards. Reading a borderline result as "close enough" is therefore a poor bet; the calculator's next-level figures exist so that a borderline Sailor can see precisely how far from safety they are.

Limitations, edge cases and what this page cannot decide

• Not a system of record. Official results exist only once recorded on NAVPERS 6110/11 and entered into PRIMS by a qualified CFL. This page is a lookup against published tables, not an official score.
• Rounding at the boundary is inferred. Guide-5A states that the overall score is the category level corresponding to the average of modality points, but it does not print an explicit rounding rule. This page floors the average onto the twelve-level ladder, which reproduces Guide-1's "Good-High, i.e. 70% or above" description. If your average lands within a point of a boundary, treat the level as provisional until PRIMS confirms it.
• The stationary bike is not scored here. Guide-5A directs bike scoring to the official PFA mobile application because it depends on bike model, calorie output and body weight, and it notes that a Sailor with a BCA waiver may not use the bike at all since weight is needed for the calculation. No printed table exists to reproduce.
• Waivers change the arithmetic. Guide-1 states that when events are medically waived, the PFA score is recalculated using only the events the Sailor was cleared for. A two-event average is not the same as a three-event average, and PRIMS records that outcome as a Partial-Pass. This page always averages three modalities.
• Form failures are not modelled. Three form corrections end the plank at the time of the third correction; an incomplete run or row is entered as 59:59 and scored as a failure; a shortcut on the course voids the cardio event. No calculator can predict how a monitor will grade your repetitions.
• Standards change. These figures are the DEC 2025 Guide-5A tables implemented from January 2026. Guides are reissued, and NAVADMINs modify the programme between reissues. Check the date on the guide you are training against.
• Combat arms take a different test. Combat arms Sailors also complete an annual Combat Fitness Assessment, whose Combat Fitness Test comprises an 800-metre swim with fins, 20-pound weighted push-ups, 20-pound weighted pull-ups and a 20-pound weighted one-mile run. Those events are in Guide-5B and are not scored here.

Where the source is genuinely silent, this page says so rather than inventing a value. The two places that applies are the boundary rounding rule described above and the stationary bike, which is omitted entirely. Everything else on this page — every repetition count and every time — is transcribed from Table 4-1 and Table 4-2 of the December 2025 guide, and the elevation toggle exists precisely because those two tables disagree.

Where the points actually sit in each modality

Push-ups. The step widths in the table are uneven, and that shapes training priorities more than most Sailors expect. In the male 20-24 band the rungs from 100 down to 60 points are 87, 86, 81, 77, 74, 71, 64, 55 and 47 repetitions, so a single repetition separates Outstanding High from Outstanding Medium while nine separate Good High from Good Medium and another eight separate Good Medium from Good Low. Near the top of the table one clean repetition is worth five points; lower down, the same five points cost eight or nine. Working out which rung you are standing on before you plan volume is worth more than any generic set-and-rep prescription.

Forearm plank. The plank ceiling is low and reachable, which makes it the most commonly under-exploited event on the test. Because the event is stopped at 3:24 for males and 3:14 for females, and because the top male 17-19 standard is 3:24 exactly, a Sailor who can hold the full permitted time takes 100 points and cannot be asked for more. In the female 20-24 band, 3:10 earns 100 points while 1:00 earns 45 — the entire spread is two minutes and ten seconds of practice. Since the event ends on the third form correction rather than on exhaustion, rehearsing the exact position (90-degree elbows, neutral pelvis, head down) is scoring practice, not just conditioning.

Cardio. Converting table times to pace makes the target concrete. In the male 25-29 band, 100 points is 8:55 for 1.5 miles, which is 5:57 per mile; the Probationary standard of 14:00 is 9:20 per mile. On the row the equivalent frame is the 500-metre split: the male 20-24 100-point standard of 7:05 for 2000 metres is a 1:46.3 split. Swimmers should note that the 500-yard and 450-metre columns differ by roughly ten seconds throughout, since 450 metres is the slightly shorter distance, so picking the pool distance your facility actually offers matters less than it looks.

Elevation is the other lever, and it is not discretionary. Guide-5A directs that PRTs be conducted at the nearest suitable site with lower or equal elevation, and Table 4-2 exists for commands above 5,000 feet where that is not possible. Comparing the two tables for males aged 20-24 shows the 100-point run relaxing from 8:30 to 9:15 and the Probationary standard from 13:30 to 14:45, while the push-up and plank columns are unchanged. Guide-5A notes the elevation adjustment assumes a 30-day acclimatisation period.

Planning a cycle around the twelve-rung ladder

Because the ladder is discrete, a training cycle should be planned in rungs rather than percentages. Score yourself honestly at the start of a cycle, read the three next-level gaps, and rank them by how much training time each represents. Six seconds on a plank and three repetitions on push-ups are usually weeks of work apart from ten seconds on a 1.5-mile run, and the arithmetic in the worked example above shows that all three buy the same single rung on the average. Spend the cycle on the cheapest one, maintain the other two, and re-score.

Two structural facts should also shape the plan. First, because the overall is an average, a single weak modality drags harder than an equally strong modality lifts — moving one event from 45 to 60 adds five points to the average, exactly as much as moving another from 85 to 100, and the first is far easier. Second, the categories are percentile-anchored: Guide-5A defines Outstanding as at or above the 90th percentile and Failure as the lowest tenth, so the rungs are describing a population, not an arbitrary curve. Improving a modality where you sit near the bottom of the table moves you through a dense part of that distribution quickly.

Finally, the assessment window is fixed and known well in advance. Commands must publish the PFA schedule at least ten weeks ahead, which is a realistic block for making one or two rungs of progress in a single modality. Your Command Fitness Leader can confirm which alternate cardio options the CO has authorised for the cycle, and Guide-5A requires that you have practised on any alternate machine before test day — showing up to row for the first time on the morning of the PRT will get you rescheduled to run instead.

Common questions about Navy PRT scoring

Sources and official references

Every repetition count and every time used by this calculator was transcribed from the published tables in the documents below. Where those documents are silent — the rounding rule at a level boundary, and stationary bike scoring — this page says so rather than substituting an estimate.

• Chief of Naval Operations, OPNAVINST 6110.1L, Physical Readiness Program, N171A, 29 December 2025. Navy Directives (DONI) copy.
• MyNavyHR, Physical Readiness Program Guide-5A: Physical Readiness Test (PRT), DEC 2025 — Tables 4-1 and 4-2, plus the modality procedures and the definition of the overall PRT score. Guide-5A (PDF).
• MyNavyHR, Physical Readiness Program Guide-1: PRP Policies, JUN 2026 — pass criteria, BCA Waist-to-Height Ratio, High-Performance BCA Exemption and FEP consequences. Guide-1 (PDF).
• MyNavyHR, Changes to Physical Readiness Program (PRP) Fact Sheet for NAVADMIN 264/25, December 2025 — confirms the numerical overall average score of 0 to 100 and the revised two-step BCA. NAVADMIN 264/25 fact sheet (PDF).
• NAVADMIN 304/20, Chief of Naval Operations, November 2020 — announced the replacement of curl-ups with the forearm plank and the addition of the 2000-metre row.

Where this page and an official document disagree, the official document wins. Your Command Fitness Leader and the current MyNavyHR Physical Readiness Program tables govern your score, and a result is official only once it is recorded on NAVPERS 6110/11 and entered in PRIMS. This page is an independent reference and is not endorsed by or affiliated with the U.S. Navy or the Department of Defense.

Related calculators and planning tools

PRT performance rarely exists in isolation. Many people preparing for military or public-service fitness tests also track body composition, alternative service standards, and broader readiness benchmarks. Looking at those measures together can help you avoid a narrow approach where you improve one test event while neglecting running economy, recovery, or overall workload tolerance.

Compare readiness targets with the Army ACFT score calculator, the Marine PFT score calculator, and the Army body fat calculator to build a broader training plan and monitor body composition alongside endurance benchmarks. Even if you only care about the Navy PRT, cross-checking related tools can sharpen your sense of pacing, strength balance, and realistic short-term goals.