Navy Profile Sheet Explained: Exam Score, Standard Score and FMS

Your profile sheet shows whether you reached the chief board and how you did on each part of the exam, and it tells you what to study for the 21 January 2027 exam (the Cycle 274 date for active duty and TAR; SELRES candidates follow their own cycle). (For an eligibility problem, check your EAW and records with your ESO too: NAVADMIN 241/26 calls the EAW “the authoritative source of data used to determine Cycle 274 E7 eligibility”.) It looks like a table of numbers with no labels you can trust. This guide goes line by line through the E-7 version, explains the three different “scores” behind it (raw score, standard score and Final Multiple Score), shows where the famous 61 comes from, and turns the section breakdown into a study list. One thing it does not do is calculate your FMS for you: the Navy has its own calculator, and we link to it rather than imitate it.

Independent: not affiliated with the US Navy, the Navy Advancement Center or Navy COOL. ProSyllabus is an independent study site and nothing here is official. Every date, rule and figure below is quoted or summarized from Navy documents (NAVADMINs, fact sheets, Navy Advancement Center pages and Navy COOL), read on 28 October 2026; where we could not confirm something, the page says so.

NAC General Advancement FAQs (13MAR23), questions 6, 12 and 28; DVIDS 22 January 2020.

Profile sheets are on MyNavy Portal, on the Navy Advancement Center page: choose “Advancement Profile Sheet - Individual” under “NEAS Resources”. NAVADMIN 075/26 gives that exact path and suggests registering for email notification of profile sheet updates on the same card, because the information “may change on a weekly basis”. A CAC login is required, because the sheet carries personal information. Your ESO can also pull it from NEAS. Profile sheets stay online for two years, so last cycle’s sheet should still be there when you plan for this one.

The Navy Advancement Center lists seven items on an E-7 candidate’s profile sheet, each shown for you and for the average of the candidates in your rate. Here they are with what each one means:

The FAQ adds a warning: on some sheets some of these items are not shown at all, for example for candidates in a fail status, with a discrepancy, or invalidated. An empty box is information too.

One limit on all of this: the FAQ (dated 13MAR23) describes the Navy-wide exam and selection boards. For FY-27, NAVADMIN 075/26 sent active-component candidates to a Senior Enlisted Marketplace screening board unless exempted, and NAVADMIN 241/26 covers an NWAE or an RKE “as applicable to each candidate”. The saved Navy texts do not say whether an RKE candidate’s profile sheet or cut differs; if you sat the RKE, ask your ESO.

The Navy Advancement Center’s FAQ answers the question “What number of questions answered wrong will result in failing an exam?” directly: “the raw score cut standard for a 175-item NWAE (without deletions) are: (E4) 49, (E5) 55, (E6&E7) 61.” So 61 is a count of right answers out of 175, which is about 35% (our arithmetic: 61 ÷ 175 = 34.9%). It is not a standard score of 61. Clearing it only keeps you in the competition; board eligibility depends on where your FMS falls among the candidates in your examination rating or competitive group. If questions are deleted from an exam after it is given, the FAQ says that “Deleted questions do not enhance or detract from anyone’s advancement opportunity”, because the conversion to standard scores is based on the whole peer group.

The FAQ gives the rough meaning of each standard score as the share of candidates on the same exam you scored above. Read across from your SS:

Two consequences follow. A standard score of 60 already puts you ahead of about 84% of the other candidates on your exam. And because the scale is built from the group that sat that exam, the same number of right answers can produce a different SS in a different year.

At E-4 to E-6 the FMS adds up several things: awards, education points, service in paygrade, pass-not-advanced points. At E-7 it does not. The FAQ is explicit: “The FMS for E7 candidates is based on only two elements – SS and RSCA PMA.” A 2020 Navy release gives the weights: the RSCA PMA “counts for 60% of the Final Multiple Score (FMS), and the exam score makes up the other 40%”.

The RSCA PMA uses the reporting senior’s cumulative average from the promotion recommendation on your E-6 evaluations; the NAC FAQ says the past 36 months are used for E6 and E7, and NAVADMIN 241/26 sets the Cycle 274 window as evaluations dated 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. By January most of that window is already written. That is why the exam matters more than its 40% suggests: it is the part of the FMS that study can still move before the 21 January 2027 exam (evaluations dated up to 31 December 2026 can still change your RSCA PMA).

The breakdown is the most useful part of the sheet for next cycle. The FAQ says it “tells you the number of questions in each Navy-wide advancement examination (NWAE) section and the number of questions you answered correctly in each section. It also gives you a percentile” for each section, against the candidates who sat the same exam. It also warns: “Percentile is not the same as percent.” A percentile of 80 means you did better than 80% of the candidates on that section; it does not mean you got 80% of the section right.

The Navy Advancement Center puts it plainly: the major subject matter shown as sections on the profile forms “will reappear. But not the same questions!” Use the profile sheet to organize study, it says, but do not treat it as a source of questions or answers. If you want a practice report in the same shape, the Navy E-7 HM exam simulator and the Navy E-7 MA exam simulator score two timed 175-question exams by bib topic. The bib and topics for your rating are in our Navy bibs guide. Both are built only from the publicly released references on the January 2027 bibs (HM: 32 of its 37 references, 15 of 20 subtopics; MA: 21 of its 41 references, 16 of 29 subtopics); the rate training manuals and controlled references are not covered, so study those from your own copies.

A status of DISC means there is a discrepancy in your advancement information and your FMS cannot be calculated until it is corrected through your ESO and the Navy Advancement Center, with supporting documents. The FAQ calls this serious: “A discrepancy can keep an otherwise qualified Sailor from being advanced.”

For Cycle 274, NAVADMIN 241/26 says post-exam discrepancy corrections go through the EAW’s Post-examination Administration Comment (PAC) function, each with a CO or OIC letter and the supporting documents attached. Board eligibility concerns, including a “BUPERS INVAL” profile sheet status, go to the Selection Board Eligibility Branch (PERS-802).

We do not offer an FMS calculator, and you should be wary of any that is not the Navy’s. The Navy Advancement Center says “Sailors may also review prior exam cycle and plan for future exam cycle Final Multiple Score (FMS) using the FMS Calculator App”, and a 2019 Navy release describes the app as complementing “the MyNavy Portal FMS Calculator”, with drop-down menus for “what if” scenarios. Neither source gives the portal calculator’s page address and we could not open MyNavy Portal ourselves, so ask your ESO where to find it. At E-7 there are only two inputs that matter, your RSCA PMA and your standard score, so the useful “what if” is simple: how much higher would your SS need to be to clear last cycle’s minimum multiple?

Raise the 40% you control: the Navy E-7 HM exam simulator and the Navy E-7 MA exam simulator give two timed 175-question exams each, scored by bib topic. Both are built only from the publicly released references on the January 2027 bibs (HM: 32 of its 37 references, 15 of 20 subtopics; MA: 21 of its 41 references, 16 of 29 subtopics); the rate training manuals and controlled references are not covered, so study those from your own copies.