Advanced Camp & CRT Points, decoded — and no, 50 is not hard
You searched “CRT points” and got a wall of acronyms and a quiet panic. Breathe. Here is exactly what the Cadet Ranking Tool is, what the 50-point floor actually means, how the points pile up, and the two gates that genuinely send cadets home — every number pulled straight from the official CST26 policy memo.
Why you’re confused (it’s not you)
The acronym changed. The camp didn’t.
Here’s the thing nobody put on a slide for you: for CST26, Cadet Command renamed the Advanced Camp scoring system. What used to be called ACCES (Advanced Camp Cadet Evaluation Scoring) is now the CRT — the Cadet Ranking Tool. Same idea: you complete evaluated events, you accumulate points, the points decide where you land against your peers. The 2026 memo also wrote down a clean minimum — 50 points — and put it in black and white.
So when your MS-IV says “ACCES,” your cadre says “CRT,” and a two-year-old Reddit thread says something else entirely — they’re all describing the same machine. You’re not behind. The vocabulary just turned over the same summer you showed up to use it.
The question you actually came here with
“Is it hard to get 50 CRT points?” — Short answer: no.
50 is a floor, not a finish line. The camp runs evaluated events for roughly five weeks — AFT, land nav, weapons qual, the confidence courses, the 6-mile foot march, soldier tasks, and your leadership cards — and it is built to hand out far more than 50 points of opportunity across all of them. If you pass events and you aren’t collecting negative SPOT reports, you clear 50 without ever aiming at it.
What should actually have your attention isn’t the number. It’s the two pass/fail gates: the AFT (one attempt, a failure sends you home with no camp credit and no waiver) and the tape (height/weight). Cadets don’t miss camp credit because they came up short on point math. They miss it because they showed up to a single-attempt fitness test out of shape, or out of standard. Fix those two things and the 50 is a non-event.
The whole gate, in four parts
What graduation credit actually requires
Per CST26 Policy Memorandum 9, you need all four of these to get Advanced Camp graduation credit. Tap any one to see how it’s scored and where cadets actually trip.
One more line in the memo
You also can’t miss more than 48 hours of scheduled training once you’ve in-processed, or you forfeit graduation credit. Documented mitigating circumstances (a real injury, a Red Cross message) are handled case by case — but don’t volunteer to sit out events you can push through.
Where the points come from
How CRT points actually accumulate
Every evaluated event feeds the CRT. Here’s the scoring logic the memo lays out for each — note what it doesn’t say below.
Army Fitness Test (AFT)
Points awarded off your total score. 60+ per event passes; a fail = dismissal.
Land Navigation
Find the required minimum points (5 of 7 on the standard course) to PASS. First attempt is worth max points; a second attempt is capped at no higher than 5 of 7.
Weapons Qualification (BRM)
Points based on the qualification badge you earn. A requalification is rated no higher than Marksman.
Confidence Courses (Rappel + Obstacle)
Points based on the number of obstacles completed.
6-Mile Foot March
Individual scored event. Complete the course with your assigned equipment in 2 hours or less; points scale with performance. Aided or over time = fail.
Individual Soldier Tasks / STX
Two attempts at each evaluated sub-task. A PASS earns points off the performance score.
Leadership Evaluations (SOAR cards)
Your graded leadership in squad/platoon roles. A second negative SPOT report costs you 5 points on your camp score.
The honest gap
Cadet Command does not publish a public table of exactly how many CRT points each event is worth at each performance level — and anyone who hands you a precise per-event point chart is guessing or working off an old leak. What’s confirmed in the memo is the logic: better performance earns more points, first attempts are worth the most, and the 50-point floor is real. Don’t plan to nickel-and-dime your way to exactly 50 — plan to perform, and the total handles itself.
Past the floor
50 graduates you. The total is what gets fought over.
Here’s the part that reframes the whole anxiety: there are two different finish lines at camp. The first is graduation credit — clear the four gates and you walk with the diploma. The second is your camp total, ranked against every cadet in the country, which feeds your Order of Merit List position — and Advanced Camp is roughly a quarter of that OML.
So if you’re nervous about graduating, the answer is: be fit, make tape, lead your squad like you mean it, and 50 is a formality. If you’re hungry for Aviation, Cyber, or MI — branches that demand a high OML — that’s a different fight, and it’s about maxing every event, not clearing a floor. Know which race you’re actually running before you let it cost you sleep.