How Your Score Is Calculated?
The Position Check Rubric
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The Position Check gives you a baseline: where you stand today across the three steps of the 169to1 method. This page explains exactly how your answers become that score, so nothing about it is hidden. Transparency is the same standard we ask of the organisations we work with.
It measures readiness, not knowledge and not results. Readiness is your ability to run the three steps of the method: to Select the goals that fit you, to Classify what you already do against them, and to Prove your impact with evidence. A high score does not mean your work is finished. It means you are equipped to do it well.
The check has two kinds of question.
Every question uses the same four answers, on one consistent scale. This is what makes the three steps comparable, because a point means the same thing in every question. The first answer scores 0 and the last scores 3.
| Score | Level | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Not established | Not in place. |
| 1 | Emerging | Beginning to take shape, still informal. |
| 2 | Established | In place and working. |
| 3 | Demonstrable | In place and able to be shown or checked. |
The nine questions, three for each step, are below.
| Step | Question |
|---|---|
| Select | Which best describes your current focus? |
| Select | Have you narrowed your focus toward a single target? |
| Select | Is your focus based on your own context and priorities? |
| Classify | Can you identify specific activities that contribute to those goals? |
| Classify | Can you distinguish actual contribution from good intention? |
| Classify | Have you documented your contribution in a structured way? |
| Prove | Do you measure the results of your work? |
| Prove | Can you show evidence of your contribution and its results? |
| Prove | Could your evidence be independently verified? |
The calculation runs in three steps.
Add the three answers for that step. The result is between 0 and 9. Convert it to a figure out of 100 by dividing by 9 and multiplying by 100. So a step where you scored 3, 2 and 2 gives 7 out of 9, which is 78 out of 100.
Take the three step figures and average them. All three carry equal weight. This average, out of 100, is your overall readiness score.
Each figure, for the three steps and for the overall, falls into one of three bands.
| Select | answers 3, 2, 2 | = 7 of 9 | 78 · Ready |
| Classify | answers 2, 1, 1 | = 4 of 9 | 44 · Building |
| Prove | answers 1, 1, 0 | = 2 of 9 | 22 · Starting |
Overall is the average of 78, 44 and 22, which is 48, a Building score. The step to work on first is Classify, explained below.
The check does not simply send you to your lowest number. It sends you to the earliest step in the Select, Classify, Prove order that is not yet Ready, because each step depends on the one before it. You cannot classify work against goals you have not selected, and you cannot prove impact on work you have not classified.
In the worked example, Prove is the lowest score at 22, but the first action targets Classify. Select is already Ready, so the earliest real gap is Classify. Fixing that comes before Prove. This is why the guidance you receive follows the order of the method, not the size of the gap.
Your results screen also shows how your country is performing on the Sustainable Development Goals, as an overall score and a status for each of the 17 goals. This is drawn from the SDSN Sustainable Development Report 2026 and is shown for context only. It is your country's progress, not your own. It is a separate measure and forms no part of your readiness score. The two numbers are on different scales and are not comparable.