Its more of an aptitude test than a puppy test..........usually they are dogs 1.5 years and below but there is no age requirement. Its supposed to be an evaluation of a dog that has been exposed to game with not a lot of training, they judge on inherited abilities as apposed to trained abilities. The dogs are evaluated on Pointing, Search, Desire, Cooperation, Nose, Tracking, and Water aptitude. Its a 1-10pt scoring system so a perfect score would be a 70 but 11's and 12's are also handed out for exceptional work. I believe its a very good system for seperating dogs compared to NAVHDA's 4 point system, I'm not trying to knock that one I like it as well. I just feel this one better suits me.