How to use the competition and activity points calculator
The hard part about turning competition results and extracurricular work into points is that the awards are not comparable. Counting a grand prize and an honorable mention as one line each throws away the difference that matters. This page has you build an award tier table first, then match each activity to a tier so the total reflects what the awards actually were.
The table takes one tier name and its points per line. In the activity list you write the activity and its tier, optionally followed by a multiplier when scale should matter: give a national event 1.5 and the same second-place finish counts one and a half times over. Leaving the multiplier out treats the activity as 1. Each line scores tier points multiplied by the multiplier, and you get the total, the average per activity, the highest-scoring entry and a count by tier.
If an activity names a tier missing from the table, the page points at that line and stops rather than guessing a value. Because tier weights differ by employer and organisation and are usually unpublished, every number here is one you set. The page does not predict screening results and does not apply an overall points ceiling or a limit on how many activities count.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many points an award tier earns differs by employer and organisation, and the figures are usually unpublished. Inventing a table here would simply be wrong, so you enter the tiers and points you are working from.
It lets a national competition count for more than a campus one. Give the national event 1.5 and the same second-place award scores one and a half times as much. Leaving the multiplier out treats the activity as 1.
The page names the line and the unknown tier and stops calculating. Fix the spelling or add that tier to the table and the total appears again.