How many promotion points is a 40 hour course?

Army Training Requirements and Resources System Courses: You can receive four promotion points per week (40 training hours) for courses that are formally listed in ATTRS.
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How many promotion points do I get per hour?

Here are some specific ways to earn Civilian Education promotion points: Each Semester Hour Completed = 2-points. Degree Completion on Active Duty = 20-points. CLEP Tests = 2-points per credit hour.
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Is it possible to get 798 promotion points?

- Anyone who has been in the military longer than a few years can attest that making cutoff scores for promotion can be a difficult task. Making the cut can seem almost impossible, especially in a Military Occupational Specialty where the points constantly hover at the maximum, 798.
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How many promotion points is college credits worth?

One college credit = one promotion point. The nature of your courses may determine whether or not they are acceptable for promotion points. You may be able to earn promotion points not only for taking classes but also for earning a degree.
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How many Army promotion points do you get for college credits?

The Army awards two promotion points per semester credit hour of civilian education up to 135 points for promotion to sergeant and 160 points for promotion to staff sergeant (Headquarters, Department of the Army, 2017).
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How do you get Army promotion points fast?

Military Education: one of the fastest way to earn points for military education is through Correspondence, ALMS, JKO courses or Skill port courses. You can earn a total of 78 promotion points for SGT and 84 for SSG through online courses and hands down is the fastest and easiest of any way to gain any points.
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Is BLC worth promotion points?

Basic Leader Course: No promotion points are given for completion of Basic Leader Course (BLC) if you are competing for selection to SGT as it is a requirement to qualify for promotion.
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How many promotion points is PT test worth?

Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT)

The APFT affords soldiers the opportunity to earn up to 180-points for SGT E-5 and 145-points for SSG E-6. These points represent about 18% and 23% of the total 800 available respectively. That's a big flipping deal!
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How many promotion points is a 300 PT test worth?

Look for the score from your last Physical Training (PT) test. If you got the maximum 300 points, you have 50 promotion points.
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Can you get promoted to SSG without ALC?

a. To SSG must graduate the Advanced Leader Course (ALC) before they are eligible for consideration for promotion pin-on to SSG, IAW AR 600-8-19, paragraph 1-29 a (4). b. To SSG primary zone: SGT with minimum 72 months TIS and 18 months TIG.
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Do you have to be pinned to wear your rank?

Many service members receive their new rank insignia during an official “pinning-on” ceremony. As a parent, sibling or significant other, you may be asked to attend or even participate in the ceremony. This means you will need to actually pin the insignia to your loved one's uniform for the first time.
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How long do you have to be a SPC to get SGT?

The time-in-grade requirement for attaining eligibility for promotion to SGT is eight months as a corporal or specialist (CPL/SPC), waiverable to four months for those recommended in the secondary zone.
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How many promotion points are correspondence courses?

The points are awarded the same as correspondence courses. You receive 1 promotion point for every 5 hours of training.
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Are Jko courses worth promotion points?

No! On JKO, there is an option in the catalog to select courses that are worth DL points (see attached photo). Make sure you only take courses that JKO has annotated are worth points! Otherwise, needless to say, they won't count towards promotion.
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How many promotion points do I need for e5?

To be placed on the promotion "recommended list," a soldier eligible for promotion to E-5 must achieve a minimum of 350 combined administrative and board points.
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Can you take APFT for promotion points?

This policy will allow Soldiers to continue their career advancement while the Army transitions to the ACFT. Army Directive 2021-14 contains the full policy, including the following key points: All E-4s are authorized to take the APFT to qualify for or increase their opportunity for promotion.
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Can you be flagged for failing the ACFT?

If they fail during that period, soldiers will be flagged. For the service's part-time soldiers, the record testing period will begin on April 1, 2023, and troops will have a year to pass an ACFT, or else they will be flagged until separations come into play for them on April 1, 2024.
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How many promotion points is an Arcom?

The ARCOM is worth 20 promotion points. All enlisted soldiers and officers up to the rank of Colonel can receive the award. The ARCOM is higher than an Army Achievement Medal and lower than the Meritorious Service Medal. Up until 1960 this award was only a ribbon, not a medal.
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What happens if you fail height and weight at BLC?

Failure of initial height and weight screening will result in a counseling and removed from all academic honors. If a student passes the re-screening, the highest rating they may receive on the 1009A for Presence and Comprehensive Fitness is a MET STANDARDS. ACFT failure: Soldiers are allowed one retest.
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What happens if you fail BLC Army?

Soldiers dismissed from BLC for academic deficiency may apply to reenter and be re-scheduled for the course when both the unit commander and the learner or Soldier determine that they are prepared to complete the course.
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What is the max correspondence course hours for Sgt?

One place says you can earn up to 200 promotion points from military education/ correspondence courses and another says the max correspondence courses points you can get is 78 for Sgt and 84 for Ssg.
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How many AAM can you wear?

Personnel may wear no more than four oak leaf clusters on each ribbon. If the receipt of future awards reduces the number of oak leaf clusters sufficiently (that is, a silver oak leaf for five awards), personnel will remove the second ribbon and place the appropriate number of devices on a single ribbon. b.
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Are deployments worth promotion points?

count for promotion points? Answer: Yes. If the Soldier brings in a DD Form 214 from a combat deployment while they were a member of another service, the ability to include those months in the deployment counter on the ERB does exist and they will get promotion points up to the maximum designated.
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Who gets a Meritorious Service Medal?

The Meritorious Service Medal is awarded to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States or to any member of the Armed Forces of a friendly foreign nation who has distinguished himself or herself by outstanding meritorious achievement or service.
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