COAST GUARD SWE

What's my final multiple?

Your place on the advancement list comes from your final multiple: up to 200 points, and the exam is only 80 of them. Put in your dates and points to see where you stand before the exam, and what you'd need on the exam to make a cutoff.

Your Personnel Data Extract (PDE) in Direct Access shows the real numbers PPC will use. Check yours against this, and fix the PDE by its deadline if something's off. Nothing you type here leaves this phone.

Which exam?

Exam

? / 80

Your raw score becomes a standard score against everyone who takes your exam, so you won't know this until your profile letter. Leave it empty to see what you'd need.

Exam standard score 0 to 80

Performance

0 / 50

Comes from the average of your in-grade evaluations, figured on PPC's spreadsheet. Copy the Performance Factor points from your PDE or last profile letter.

Performance factor points 0 to 50

Time in service

0 / 20

1 point a year (.083 a full month) to the terminal eligibility date, full credit at 20 years.

Active duty base date

Time in grade

0 / 10

2 points a year (.166 a full month) from your date of rank to the terminal eligibility date, full credit at 5 years.

Date of rank (current grade)

Medals and awards

0 / 10

Count only awards earned since your points start date (for most E-5 and up, your last advancement) through the eligibility date. Other services' good conduct awards don't count.

Sea, surf and incentive

0 / 30

Full months since your points start date, through the eligibility date. Sea, surf and incentive points share one 30-point career cap.

Sea duty months 2 points a year, since 1 Feb 1994 Of those, NSC months National Security Cutter, Jan 2016 to Sep 2021: 2.333 a year Surf duty months Certified surfman: 1 point a year, 15 max Incentive points From your PDE (see the list below)

Incentive points include: BM1 who passed a district OIC board, +1 toward BMC; and under the 2026 and 2027 beta, BM1s who pass the OIC board get 20 (ALCOAST 150/25). Company commander insignia, +1. Level 4 cutters, 0.5 per full year since 1 Oct 2022; Level 5, 0.5 per full six months; pre-commissioning and maintenance-period cutters, 0.5 per full three months. Reservists on a PSU tour, 1 after a year.

Cutoff to beat

Cutoffs are published per rate after each exam (look for the ALCGENL "SWE cutoffs" message, or ask your Rating Force Master Chief). They move every cycle, so last year's is only a guide.

Cutoff for your rate Final multiple

FINAL MULTIPLE0out of 200

Captain's Ticket Water jobs

Not official and not tied to the Coast Guard. PPC's own math (and rounding) decides; your PDE and profile letter are the record. Rules change by ALCOAST, so check the newest SWE message for your exam.

Sources

Enlistments, Evaluations, and Advancements, COMDTINST M1000.2C (January 2020), Articles 3.A.3.f (final multiple table and award points) and 3.A.17 (sea and surf points).
ALCOAST 367/22 (October 2022): incentive points move from awards to sea/surf points; CC, OIC and PSU points become incentive points; Level 4 and 5 cutter, pre-commissioning and maintenance-period points; NSC rate limited to Jan 2016 to Sep 2021.
Servicewide Examination (SWE) Guide, January 2025 (PPC): eligibility and terminal eligibility dates, profile letter fields.
MyCG, "BM1s: Here is how you could get 20 points on the SWE" (April 18, 2025), on ALCOAST 150/25.