Points
Eligible candidates receive points based on a number of criteria, including time in service, time in grade, awards and decorations, Enlisted Performance Report (EPR) points, Promotion Fitness Examination (PFE) points, and Specialty Knowledge Test (SKT) points. Fractions of points are awarded for certain categories, resulting in scores that are not whole numbers. Candidates with the highest numbers of points, up to the promotion allowance in each career field, are promoted.
The score of the last person promoted is known as the cutoff. The cutoff can gauge how narrowly a given candidate missed a promotion. The cutoff score varies because of variations in both the number of promotion slots and the number of points earned by the top candidates.
Read more about this topic: Weighted Airman Promotion System
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—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
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