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Mock Air Force PT Test

Enter your practice numbers to see the AFMAN 36-2905 category you'd land in, your margin over every chart minimum, and where your next points are cheapest.

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Mock PFRA readiness check

Enter numbers from a practice run-through. You get the category the result would fall in under AFMAN 36-2905, your margin over every chart minimum, and the cheapest next points, scored with the same engine and AFPC charts as the calculator.

Scoring standard

Sex- and age-specific

Gender

Age group

Muscular strength

Push-ups (1 min)

Min 30 · Max 67

Core endurance

Sit-ups (1 min)

Min 33 · Max 58

Cardiorespiratory

2-mile run time

Min 19:45 · Max 13:25
min
sec

Body composition

WHtR 0.48 · low risk
in
ft
in

Waist, then height in feet and inches. The ratio is truncated to two decimals, not rounded ¶3.15.4.2.

If this were your official PFRA
Satisfactory
Composite
88.0 / 100

Ready ¶3.11. Excellent and Satisfactory are both due again in 6 months (ARC: 12 months) Table 3.3.

Component scores vs. the chart minimum

  • Push-ups (1 min)11.0 / 15 ptsMeets minimum
    Minimum 30 · you 55 (+25)
  • Sit-ups (1 min)11.0 / 15 ptsMeets minimum
    Minimum 33 · you 50 (+17)
  • 2-mile run46.0 / 50 ptsMeets minimum
    Minimum 19:45 · you 14:45 (5:00 to spare)
  • Waist-to-height ratio20.0 / 20 ptsNo minimum
    WHtR 0.48 · low risk · body composition has no minimum ¶3.7.1

The tick on each bar is the starred chart minimum: 2.5 of 15 points for strength and core, 35 of 50 for cardio. Below it a component scores zero ¶3.7.4.

Train this first: Push-ups (1 min), at 73% of its points, is your biggest gap to full marks.

Cheapest next points

What one training step on each event adds to your composite, re-scored on the charts. The line under each shows what that event alone would need for Excellent (above 90), everything else as entered.

  • Sit-ups (1 min)
    5 more reps
    +2.5
    composite
    Best exchange rateChanges your category

    For Excellent: 55 reps (+5)

  • 2-mile run
    Run 30 s faster
    +2.0
    composite

    For Excellent: 14:03 or faster (0:42 faster)

  • Push-ups (1 min)
    5 more reps
    +1.5
    composite

    For Excellent: 63 reps (+8)

  • Waist-to-height ratio
    1 in off the waist
    +0.0
    composite

    For Excellent: Can't reach Excellent through this event alone, even at the chart maximum.

No altitude correction is applied. At 5,250 ft or higher, Attachment 3 credits run time and HAMR shuttles ¶3.15.12.3. Training steps (5 reps, 30 s, 5 shuttles, 1 in of waist) are this tool’s planning assumption, not an Air Force standard.

Planning tool only. myFitness is the only authorized system to schedule and score PFRAs (AFMAN 36-2905 para. 7.1), and your UFPM sets your due dates (para. 2.28.4).

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How to Run a Test-Realistic Mock PFRA

Practice numbers only predict your result if you collect them the way the fitness assessment cell will. The official order and limits, with the paragraph for each:

  1. 1Body composition first. Waist at the midpoint between your lowest rib and the top of your hip bone, on bare skin, at the end of a normal breath out. Take three readings, round each down to the half inch, average them and round down again. Height to the nearest half inch. ¶3.15.2.3, 3.15.4.4–3.15.4.6
  2. 2Strength. 1-minute push-ups or 2-minute hand-release push-ups. Have a partner count out loud and repeat the last good number when a rep doesn't meet the standard. ¶3.15.11, 3.15.6.2
  3. 3Rest at least 5 minutes. Between every component, not just before the run. ¶3.15.10
  4. 4Core. 1-minute sit-ups, 2-minute cross-leg reverse crunch, or the timed forearm plank. ¶3.15.12
  5. 5Cardio last. 2-mile run or 20 m HAMR on a measured course. Finish the three physical components within 3 hours of starting the first. ¶3.15.4, 3.15.9

Then write down exact reps and times straight away. Rounded-up practice numbers are how people get surprised on test day.

Strict form is the whole game: a practice score built on reps an administrator wouldn’t count is worse than no score. The counting standards are in Attachment 2 of AFMAN 36-2905 (formerly DAFMAN 36-2905); the event guides cover push-ups, sit-ups and the reverse crunch, the plank and the HAMR.

Reading Your Result

Excellent
Above 90, every minimum met. Ready · due again in 6 months (ARC: 12)
¶3.10.1
Satisfactory
75 – 89.9, every minimum met. Ready · due again in 6 months (ARC: 12)
¶3.10.2
Unsatisfactory
Below 75, or any minimum missed. Not Ready · due again in 3 months
¶3.10.3

“Ready” has a specific meaning: an Excellent or Satisfactory PFRA within the last 6 months, or 12 months for the ARC ¶3.11. An Excellent doesn’t buy extra time: it is due again on the same 6-month cycle as a Satisfactory Table 3.3. The 2-km walk, allowed only when your AF Form 469 authorizes it, can reach Satisfactory but never Excellent ¶3.7.3, 3.10.1. A composite of exactly 90.0 falls between the published ranges ¶3.6.1; the readiness check shows it as Satisfactory.

The margins matter more than the headline number. A 78 with every event well clear of its minimum is a safer position than an 82 held up by one maxed event while another sits on its minimum, because a bad day on that one event fails the whole PFRA. The exact floors for your age group are on the PT test minimums page.

From Diagnosis to Training

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I do a mock Air Force PT test?+
Copy the official order and limits. Measure your waist and height first, then do the strength event, then the core event, and the cardio event last. Rest at least 5 minutes between components and finish all three physical components within 3 hours (AFMAN 36-2905 paras. 3.15.4, 3.15.9 and 3.15.10). Write down exact reps and times, then enter them in the readiness check on this page.
How accurate is the mock test?+
It scores your numbers on AFPC's PFRA charts (effective 1 March 2026, corrected 17 March 2026) with the same engine as this site's calculator, including the WHtR truncation in AFMAN 36-2905 para. 3.15.4.2. It does not apply the altitude adjustments in Attachment 3 (para. 3.15.12.3). Practice conditions are rarely test-day conditions, so treat a result close to a category line as uncertain.
What do Excellent, Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory mean?+
They are the PFRA categories in AFMAN 36-2905 para. 3.6.1. Excellent is above 90 and Satisfactory is 75 to 89.9, both with every component minimum met. Both make you Ready and both are due again in 6 months, or 12 months for the ARC (paras. 3.10.1, 3.10.2 and 3.11, Table 3.3). Unsatisfactory is below 75 or any missed component minimum: you are Not Ready and due again in 3 months (para. 3.10.3). A composite of exactly 90.0 falls between the two published ranges; this site shows it as Satisfactory, and the official category is whatever myFitness records (para. 7.1).
What does the chart minimum mean on a practice test?+
Each physical event has a starred minimum on the AFPC chart: 2.5 of 15 points for strength and core, 35 of 50 for cardio. Below it the component scores zero (AFMAN 36-2905 para. 3.7.4), and a missed minimum makes the PFRA Unsatisfactory whatever the composite (para. 3.6.1). Body composition has no minimum (para. 3.7.1).
Does a mock PT test count officially?+
No. PFRAs are run by PFRA Administrators at the FAC or UFAC, and a composite is official only when it is entered in myFitness (AFMAN 36-2905 paras. 3.2.5, 3.7.5 and 7.1). If you want a real score without it counting, para. 3.8 lets you elect, after you see the result, to log a completed PFRA as a diagnostic (DPFRA): at most two in 365 days, or one for the ARC. Unit-offered DPFRAs are held no earlier than one month before the scheduled assessment (para. 3.4.4).
When should I take a mock PT test?+
Our suggestion, not an Air Force rule: one practice test 6 to 8 weeks out to set priorities, one 3 to 4 weeks out to measure progress, and a final dress rehearsal 10 to 14 days before the official test. Skip all-out practice tests in the last week; rest does more for you then than one more data point.
What should I do if I fail my mock test?+
First find out what failed you. A missed component minimum fails the PFRA on its own (AFMAN 36-2905 para. 3.6.1), so that event needs targeted work before anything else. A low composite usually points to cardio, which is worth 50 of the 100 points (para. 3.7.1). The cheapest-next-points list in the readiness check shows which single improvement moves your composite most.

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