1	Complete the FLATWATER PROFICIENCY test at your club or other pre-arranged location. You are now Flat Water proficient and will now be permitted to enter Flatwater races only. Get your first certificate signed by your safety officer.
2	Complete three flatwater races or Time Trials
3	Complete the RIVER PROFICIENCY test at pre-arranged location
4	You are now a B RATED PADDLER and will be permitted to take part in C graded and B graded river races only
5	Complete six C graded or B graded (or a combination of the two) river races and get your third certificate signed by your safety officer.
6	You are now a A RATED PADDLER. This allows you to enter A-graded river races.
7	Complete three A graded river races and get your fourth certificate signed by your safety officer.
8	You are now an A+ RATED PADDLER. WELL DONE !!
9	You will keep an A or A+ rating for life. However if your membership lapses for more than two years and you are not yet A or A+ rated, your number is given away and all records are “lost”. You will have to start at a Flatwater proficiency test should you wish to begin racing again.