Week Nine of Navy Officer Candidate School

The Ninth Week of Navy OCS

Final Exams: This is your last week being an Officer Candidate before you become a Candidate Officer. You will have your final two exams this Monday. The instructors will not allow you to push a test back, but if your class decides to, you may be able to move one test to the previous Friday. That will be something decided within your class and between your academic instructors.

You will also have your out-PRT. You must achieve an “excellent-low” to pass; it is rare for a candidate to fail. Once your class has completed all of its graded events, your class team will start crunching the numbers and develop the class rankings. From these, billets will be assigned for your Candidate Officer phase. That phase officially starts the Thursday this week with a Change of Command ceremony when your class officially takes control as Candidate Officer’s at OCS and the reigning Candidate Officer class is relieved. This is to allow the off-going Candidate Officers to have time to prepare for their graduation the next day.

Due to classes convening quicker than 3 weeks apart, there may be a week or two of overlap between Candidate Officers at OCS. In that case, your class will still become Candidate Officers the Thursday of this week, but you will be sharing duties with another senior Candidate Officer class.