Navy PRT calculator: score the Physical Readiness Test

The Navy Physical Fitness Assessment, or PFA, has two halves. The first is the body composition check, which the Navy body composition calculator works through step by step. The second is the PRT, which the calculator scores.

How the PRT is scored

Each event has its own table, split by sex and by age group. Every table has 12 rows, from Outstanding-High at 100 points down to Probationary at 45. Find your age group, read down to the best row your result reaches, and that row's points are your score for the event.

Push-ups and plank are counts and times to match or beat, so more is better. The run, row and swims are times to match or beat, so less is better. A man aged 25 to 29 earns 100 points with 84 push-ups, a 3:16 plank or an 8:55 run. Probationary takes 34 push-ups, a 1:09 plank or a 14:00 run.

The twelve levels

The levels are the same in every table. Outstanding runs from High at 100 points to Medium at 95 and Low at 90. Excellent runs 85, 80 and 75. Good runs 70, 65 and 60. Satisfactory has two rows, High at 55 and Medium at 50, and Probationary is the single 45 point row.

What you need to pass

Guide-5A passes the PRT when you reach Probationary or better on all three events: push-ups, plank and one cardio event. Failing one or more events fails the whole test. No document gives a minimum for the average.

A result under the Probationary row is a failed event. The guide prints no points for it, so this calculator shows "under Probationary" and 0 points. The 0 only keeps the average moving. The test is failed whatever the average says.

A worked example

A man aged 27 does 62 push-ups, holds the plank for 2:20 and runs 1.5 miles in 11:30 at a site at 5,000 feet or lower. In the 25 to 29 table, 62 push-ups reaches the 70 point row, which asks for 60. The plank reaches 70 points at 2:17. The run reaches 65 points at 12:15 and misses the 70 point row at 11:23.

The three scores are 70, 70 and 65. They average 68.3, which reaches the 65 point level, Good-Medium. The next row up on the run takes 11:23 or faster.

Run, row or swim

The 1.5 mile run or walk is the standard cardio event. The commanding officer decides whether to allow the 2 kilometer row, the 500 yard swim or the 450 meter swim for a cycle. A Sailor cannot choose one alone, and must have practiced on that machine or in that pool. The calculator reads each choice against its own column.

The stationary bike and the treadmill are not scored here. Guide-5A scores the bike in calories through the Navy's own mobile application and prints no table for it, and the treadmill has no column in the tables.

Above 5,000 feet

Guide-5A defines increased elevation as greater than 5,000 feet above sea level and gives Table 4-2 for it. Only the run, row and swim times change, and they are slower. At sea level a man aged 25 to 29 needs 10:52 for 75 points on the run. Above 5,000 feet that 75 point row is 11:50.

The same 11:30 run earns 65 points at sea level and 75 points on Table 4-2. The guide does not say whether the test site or a Sailor's home station sets the altitude, so the switch here follows the test site.

The 2026 test cycles

NAVADMIN 264/25 sets two cycles for 2026. Cycle-1 runs from 1 January to 30 June and Cycle-2 from 1 July to 31 December. Active Component Sailors complete two fitness assessments a year. Reserve Component Sailors complete at least one.

Guide-1 says a result from one cycle is not accepted for another. Commands publish their schedule at least 10 weeks ahead.

Probationary scores and the Fitness Enhancement Program

Guide-1 enrolls a Sailor in the Fitness Enhancement Program after a Probationary score on any one event. The Sailor stays enrolled until passing an official fitness assessment with Good-Low or better, which is 60 points, in every event they are cleared for. Sailors who do not meet standards also take part in the program.

Body composition and the high-performance allowance

A Sailor over the body fat limit can still pass the overall fitness assessment with a strong PRT. Guide-1 requires an overall Outstanding-Low or higher with all three events no lower than Excellent-Medium. That is 90 points overall and 80 in each event. The body composition result is still recorded as not within standards, and the Sailor still joins the Fitness Enhancement Program. The guide does not say whether "overall Outstanding-Low" means an average of 90.

The Navy body composition calculator covers the measurement side.

Combat arms occupations

SEAL, SWCC, explosive ordnance disposal and fleet diving Sailors are measured against a different line. Guide-1 uses the age-normed male standard with Good-High, 70 points, as the line, and Guide-5B words it as a combined score of 70. They also take a combat fitness test. This calculator does not apply that line.

Where Guide-5A is silent and how it is read here

Five points are not settled in Guide-5A, and this calculator makes a reading for each.

First, a result between two rows earns the points of the highest row it reaches. Nothing in the guide says so, and nothing says the points are interpolated or rounded up.

Second, the guide gives the overall score as an average but says nothing about rounding it or naming a category for it. The calculator shows the average to one decimal and names the highest level whose points the exact average reaches.

Third, the guide prints no points for a result under Probationary, so the calculator shows 0.

Fourth, the guide does not say which age picks the group, so the calculator uses age on test day.

Fifth, the altitude switch follows the test site, as described above.

Some printed values look odd, and they are kept as printed. In Table 4-2, the 450 meter swim for women aged 35 to 39 lists 15:42 and 16:22, slower than the 15:40 and 15:58 printed for the 500 yard swim, which is the reverse of every other group. The women's run for ages 17 to 19 jumps from 9:29 to 11:15 between its first two rows, and ages 20 to 24 from 9:47 to 11:15.