How the 2026 PFRA Is Scored

The Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment (PFRA) scores four components — cardio, body composition, strength, and core — each on its own chart by gender and age group, then combines them into one composite score.

Components and weights

How to pass

Your composite score — points earned over points available, across every component you're not exempt from — must be at least 75. That alone isn't enough: every scored component also has to clear its own chart's lowest bracket. Score below that floor on any single component — cardio, strength, core, or body comp — and the whole test fails, even if the other components would carry the composite past 75. See minimum scores by gender and age group for exactly where that floor sits on each event.

The 2-km walk and the waist-to-height ratio don't work quite like the point events above: the walk is pass/fail against an age-and-gender time limit (no points, and missing it fails cardio outright), and waist-to-height ratio scores the same brackets for every gender and age group.

Age groups

Every chart is broken out by gender and by nine age groups:

• Under 25
• 25-29
• 30-34
• 35-39
• 40-44
• 45-49
• 50-54
• 55-59
• 60+

What changed for 2026

The 2-mile run replaced the 1.5-mile run as the default cardio event — this calculator can still take a 1.5-mile time and convert it (Riegel method) if that's what you tested on. HAMR is the 20-meter shuttle run, the alternate cardio option, tracked by total shuttle count or by "level X, shuttle Y." The plank and the cross-leg reverse crunch joined sit-ups on the core event menu, so there are now three ways to score core. For the full transition story — the timeline, the returning waist measurement, and the PFA/PFRA naming — see PFA vs. PFRA: what changed.

Transcribed from the official DAF PFRA scoring charts (AFMAN 36-2905, current as of 17 Mar 2026)

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