How the AFT is scored
The Army Fitness Test became the Army's test of record on June 1, 2025, replacing the ACFT. It has five events, taken in this order: the 3-Repetition Maximum Deadlift (MDL), the Hand-Release Push-Up (HRP), the Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC), the Plank (PLK), and the Two-Mile Run (2MR). Each event is worth 0 to 100 points from the official scoring scales (approved May 15, 2025), which are normed by sex and by ten age groups: 17-21, 22-26, 27-31, 32-36, 37-41, 42-46, 47-51, 52-56, 57-61, and 62 and up. You need at least 60 points in every event, plus a minimum total: 300 for most soldiers, 350 for the 21 designated combat MOSs.
One thing the scorecard never explains: the table is a staircase, not a ramp. Every column of the official scales is a list of printed lines, and your score is the last line you actually reached. There is no partial credit between lines and no rounding up. A plank of 2:30 in the 27-31 male column scores 81 points, exactly like a 2:28 plank, because the next line does not arrive until 2:31. This calculator uses the full official tables and the same step logic, so the number it gives you is the number the grader's tablet gives you.
The formula
Pass requires every event at 60 points or more AND the total at or above the line for your standard: 300 on the general standard (age and sex normed) or 350 on the combat standard (sex-neutral). Fail either condition and the test is a fail, no matter how strong the rest of the card looks.
Worked example
A 30 year old male on the general standard turns in: 250 lb deadlift, 30 push-ups, 1:50 Sprint-Drag-Carry, 2:30 plank, 16:30 two-mile run. On the 27-31 male scale:
MDL 250 lb lands exactly on the printed 250 line: 81 points (the next line is 260 lb for 83). HRP 30 reps: 73 points. SDC 1:50: 85 points. PLK 2:30 passes the 2:28 line but not the 2:31 line: 81 points, the staircase at work. 2MR 16:30 beats the 16:33 line: 85 points.
Total: 81 + 73 + 85 + 81 + 85 = 405. Every event clears 60 and 405 clears 300, so this is a comfortable pass, and it would clear the 350 combat line too.
General standard vs combat standard
Since the AFT arrived, there is no longer one answer to "what do I need." Most soldiers take the general standard: age and sex normed scoring, 60 points per event, 300 total. Soldiers in the 21 combat MOSs (11A, 11B, 11C, 11Z, 12A, 12B, 13A, 13F, the 18 series and 180A, 19A, 19C, 19D, 19K, and 19Z: infantry, combat engineer, fire support, Special Forces, and armor) take the combat standard: sex-neutral scoring on the table's combat column, which is the same column as the male scale, still normed by age, with 60 per event and a 350 total. It took effect January 1, 2026 for the active component and June 1, 2026 for the Guard and Reserve.
Two consequences are easy to miss. First, a woman in a combat MOS is scored to the same numbers as the men in her age group; her sex changes nothing on the scorecard. Second, the 350 floor means you can pass every event and still fail the test. A soldier scoring 65 points in all five events holds a 325: a clean pass on the general standard, a 25-point fail on the combat standard. On the combat card, minimums are not the target; margins are.
One more 2026 development, so you hear it here rather than in a formation: Army Directive 2026-07 added a separate Combat Field Test for combat MOSs, phasing in from April 2026 with enforcement from April 2027. It is a go or no-go field event test taken in addition to the AFT, not a replacement for it. The AFT and its scoring above remain the test of record.
What changed from the ACFT
Three things. The Standing Power Throw is gone: the ball toss was dropped for injury risk and because height and technique skewed results, taking the test from six events to five. The scoring scales were rebuilt: the June 2025 tables are new, not the old ACFT numbers minus one event, so an ACFT-era chart on the gym wall will mislead you (the male deadlift now tops out at 350 lb in the 22 to 46 age groups, and the two-mile run lines moved). And the combat standard was created, with the sex-neutral scoring and 350 floor described above. One quiet detail worth knowing: in the June 2025 tables the plank column is identical for men and women in every age group. It is the one event where the general standard is already sex-neutral for everyone.
Where points come fastest
If you are short of a line, not all five events pay back training at the same speed. For most soldiers the HRP and SDC respond fastest: push-up volume and short anaerobic repeats produce visible gains in two to four weeks, and the SDC rewards practicing the transitions themselves. The plank follows: core endurance builds quickly, and pacing the first 30 seconds calmly is worth points by itself. The deadlift moves on a strength cycle measured in months, not weeks, and the two-mile run is slowest of all, because an aerobic base cannot be crammed.
Then aim at the staircase, not the horizon: the "next point at" column in your result shows the nearest printed line in each event. Five pounds, one rep, or three seconds sometimes buys a point, and near a boundary that is the cheapest point on the card. Soldiers chasing a combat-standard total or promotion points should raid the events where the next line sits closest.
Alternate events
Soldiers on a permanent profile may be authorized alternate aerobic events: a 2.5-mile walk, a 12 km bike, a 1 km swim, or a 5 km row. Honest scope note: the official table scores these go or no-go against a single time standard for your age group, so they award no points and this calculator does not score them. If that is your test, your scored events still work exactly as above.