<p>when the apft is administered during beast, will they stop us once we get to the 100 point mark on an event or are we supposed to keep going?</p>
<p>Also, I guess i'm sort of curious, would a score of 300 on the first apft be unusual or are we sort of expected to max out?</p>
<p>You are expected to show up in shape. I guarantee you that not many new cadets will max the PT test.</p>
<p>You are expected to do as many pushups and situps as possible in 2 minutes. Once you hit the 100pts mark, you keep going. Pushups are graded fairly rigorously.<br>
-Must lock out at the top
-When going down, elbows must come to smaller than 90degree angle (pretty much chest is about .5" off the ground)</p>
<p>If you decide to get up and stop at the 100pts mark, you will get extra attention you dont want. Also, if you score over 100pts in all three events, your score is then put onto an extended scale where you can score up to 375 points.</p>
<p>Remember, everything is evaluated, always give 100% and then some. Good Luck</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that you have to max out in all the events before you can get better than a 300.</p>
<p>A frightening statistic is that 30% of new cadets will fail the APFT at the beginning of Beast. At the end of Beast 98% will pass. </p>
<p>These links may help.
Army</a> Push-up Tips</p>
<p>Army.com</a> - Push Ups</p>
<p>Oh nooo...if it's like when I was there, you'll be encouraged to keep going until you can't and strive for your personal best always. If you max out, you'll kind of set the bar for your first week or so... which could be either a curse or a blessing. It was a little tougher than the test they administered to candidates at the local army base/pre-qualification location.</p>
<p>When I went in (87), they actually made us use 'clicker board' devices on the push-up portion (i.e., long, thin piece of wood with another small block of wood on top that would make a clicking sound when your chest hit it). Being female, hitting the clicker dead on w/enough force to make it "click" was sometimes a challenge...guys didn't seem to have as much of a problem as long as they cleared the horizontal plane from elbow-to-elbow re: rib/chest physiology. In my recollection from Beast, few maxed across the board, most cleared the final tally around the above average-to-average range, and there were a few who scored below passing for one area or another. The clicker board was the culprit in making some pretty energetic folks do double the work to hit pass or max.</p>