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
The official, publicly posted CST26 memo does not print a table of exactly how many points each event is worth at each performance level — it confirms the logic (better performance earns more, first attempts are worth the most, 50 is a real floor) without the arithmetic. Below is the actual weighted math, from a separate cadre-training slide that circulates in the ROTC community — read the sourcing note before you treat it as gospel.
The arithmetic Cadet Command doesn’t print
How the 100-point base actually gets weighted
A slide deck titled “Advanced Camp Evaluations and Appeals — Policy Memorandum #20” has circulated among cadre and cadets and lays out the exact per-event weighting cadre use to calculate a camp score for the appeals process. It breaks the 100-point base into three buckets — Physical (35%), Military Skills Competence (27%), and Leadership (38%) — and shows the formula behind every event.
Sourcing note — read this before you bank on any number
This is not the same document as CST26 Policy Memorandum 9 cited above, and we have not independently verified it against an official published copy — it reached us as a shared slide, not a linkable source. The math is internally consistent (every category and event total checks out to the percentages shown), which is why we’re publishing it, but memo numbers and weights are reissued and can shift year to year. Confirm current weights with your cadre — treat this as a credible leak, not the regulation itself.
Physical35% of score
+15
AFT
Points scale off your total AFT score above 300. 300 = 1 pt (the minimum to earn any points at all), 500 = 15 pts (max), and every point above 300 adds roughly 0.07 pts. An event failure zeroes this out entirely.
+6
Confidence Course
Your 7th obstacle passed earns 1.5 pts, and each obstacle after that adds another 1.5, capping at 6 pts for 10 obstacles. An event failure = 0.
+7
6-Mile Foot March
Binary, not graduated: finish in 120 minutes or less and you get the full 7 points, whether you did it in 119 minutes or 90. Over 120 minutes = 0.
+7
12-Mile Foot March
Same binary logic — a PASS earns the full 7 points.
Military Skills Competence27% of score
+6
Land Navigation — Written Exam
A 70% score is the floor and earns 1 pt; 100% earns the full 6 pts, with roughly 0.167 pts added per point above 70%. An exam failure = 0.
+10
Land Navigation — Practical (Points Found)
Finding 5 of 7 points on your first round earns 3.33 pts (the minimum to pass); 6 of 7 earns 6.66 pts; all 7 earns the full 10. A pass earned on a second attempt is capped at 3.33 pts no matter how many points you find. A PE failure = 0.
+2
Warrior Skills
Pass/fail — clearing 10 of 14 tested tasks earns the full 2 points. A failure = 0.
+2
Grenades
Pass/fail — clearing 5 of 7 stations earns the full 2 points. A failure = 0.
+7
Basic Rifle Marksmanship
Your first-attempt qualification badge sets the multiplier against the 7-point weight: Expert = full 7 pts, Sharpshooter = 5.6 pts, Marksman = 4.2 pts. Requalifying on a second attempt caps you at 2 pts regardless of badge earned. Failing to qualify at all = 0.
Leadership38% of score
+18
Evaluated Leadership Position — 1st FTX
Your O/C/T rating sets the multiplier against the 18-point weight: Excellent = full 18 pts, Proficient = 12 pts, Capable = 6 pts, Unsatisfactory = 0.
+18
Evaluated Leadership Position — 2nd FTX
The same Excellent/Proficient/Capable/Unsatisfactory scale, applied to your second graded leadership position.
+2
Final Peer Evaluation Average
Your peer evaluations are averaged and normalized against your squad size, then multiplied by the weight.
-5
Second Negative SPOT Report
A flat 5-point deduction from your camp score the second time you draw a negative SPOT report. It stacks on top of the 100-point base below, not inside it.
+5
RECONDO Bonus
A flat 5-point bonus added to your camp score for earning the RECONDO badge — also stacks on top of the base.
The Second Negative SPOT Report (−5) and RECONDO Bonus (+5) rows are adjustments on top of the 100-point base, not part of the weighted 35/27/38 split.
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.
Sources & Accuracy
Requirements and scoring logic on this page are drawn from U.S. Army Cadet Command CST26 Policy Memorandum 9 — Advanced Camp Performance & Completion Credit and the official Advanced Camp page. CST policy memos are reissued each year and event details can shift between cohorts. The weighted scoring breakdown in the “arithmetic Cadet Command doesn’t print” section is drawn from a separate, unlinked training slide (“Advanced Camp Evaluations and Appeals — Policy Memorandum #20”) shared within the ROTC community and has not been independently verified against an official published copy. Confirm the current year’s memo and weights with your cadre before you bank on any specific number. This page is a plain-English starting point, not the regulation itself.