<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>