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Boards of Review

The review that ends every rank, and the appeal that can follow it.

Pages carrying this tag, from wherever they are filed.

• Star Rank

  Eight requirements, five of which only count from the day First Class was approved, and two four-month clocks that run concurrently rather than one after the other.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project

• Life Rank

  Eight requirements, two six-month clocks that run side by side rather than end to end, three hours of service that have to be conservation-related, and the only other place in the whole rank ladder that asks a Scout to teach.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Conservation Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project Teaching

• Venturing Boards of Review

  The board of review for Discovery, Pathfinder and Summit: who sits on it, who chairs it, what is discussed, and what happens after, including the parts that are nothing like Scouts BSA.

  Venturing Ranks Appeals Boards of Review Process Rank Venturing

• Technology-Based Tools in Advancement

  Videoconference boards of review, online merit badge classes, web-based counseling, virtual attendance and generative AI: what the Guide to Advancement permits, what it requires, and the three words it defines so that a tool cannot quietly redefine them.

  Special Considerations Boards of Review Council Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process Technology

• Posthumous Awards and the Spirit of the Eagle Award

  What may be recognised after a registered youth member dies: a rank or award they had already earned, an honorary award that depends on no advancement at all, or both.

  Special Considerations Boards of Review Council Eagle Scout Process Rank

• First Class Rank

  Thirteen requirements, including a five-part cooking project that must all happen on one planned campout, a rubbish-reduction requirement needing two outings, and the last four weeks of a fitness chain that began at Tenderfoot.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Second Class Rank

  Twelve requirements, two of which are months long: five separate activities with two nights of camping, and four weeks of daily activity that cannot start until Tenderfoot requirement 6c is done.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Tenderfoot Rank

  Eleven requirements, one of which is a thirty-day fitness calendar that Second Class and First Class then continue, and six of which wait on a single campout.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Sea Scout Boards of Review

  The board of review for Apprentice, Ordinary, Able and Quartermaster: who sits on it, who chairs it, what is discussed, and what happens after, including the four places where "very similar to Scouts BSA" stops being true.

  Sea Scout Ranks and Awards Appeals Boards of Review Process Rank Sea Scouts

• Judging the Requirements That Are Hardest to Judge

  Active participation, Scout spirit, service projects, positions of responsibility and the unit leader conference. The rank requirements that cannot be checked by watching, and the tests the Guide to Advancement gives for each.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review For Adults Process Rank

• Boards of Review

  A conversation, not an examination. It cannot be refused, it cannot be used to retest, and the date it happens is the date the rank was earned.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Appeals Boards of Review Eagle Scout Process Rank