Begin by matching the form to your task. DA Form 1059 is titled SERVICE SCHOOL ACADEMIC EVALUATION REPORT, and you reach for it when you need to service school academic evaluation report. Once that matches, check the date. The edition here is 03/01/2019, published with the status ACTIVE. After that, glance at the length: you will be working through 1 page(s) and somewhere near 166 fields. Check this before anything else — a more recent edition is out. Stay on this one only if the record you are handling was already completed on it.
Now decide who does the writing. Normally you enter your own particulars, then hand the sheet to the unit administrative office for review. If you work in that office, you enter what the individual brings you. From there the path is the same for everyone: G-1 is responsible for the form, and AR 623-3 tells you what triggers it and where it ends up. Look at the directive first whenever your case departs from the ordinary.
Start at the top of the page and work down. The heading blocks come first: write your name as it appears on your official records, then your identification number, then your unit or organisation, then the date you are preparing the form. Do not skip ahead to the interesting parts and come back — these heading entries are how your form is found in the file afterwards, and a form filed under a misspelled name is a form nobody can locate.
Once you reach the body of the form, move between fields with the tab key rather than the mouse; it follows the order the form was built in and you are less likely to skip a box. Click check boxes and option buttons directly. When you meet a group of options where only one can apply, notice that selecting a second one clears the first — that is intended, not a fault. Watch your longer answers as you type them. A single-line field does not wrap, so text that runs past the edge stays visible on screen and then prints cut off. When you see that happening, stop and move the text to the remarks area or a continuation instead of squeezing it in. If a field does not apply to you, mark it rather than leaving it empty; a blank space tells the reviewer nothing about whether you considered the question or missed it.
Save the signature for last. Sign by hand, or by whatever electronic method your office accepts, and understand that until you do the document is a draft no matter how complete it looks. If the form calls for a reviewing official, an approving authority, or a witness, take those signatures in the order the blocks print, and have each signer date it on the day they sign rather than the day you prepared it. Before you hand it over, read it once more from the top. You are looking for three things in particular: a mandatory field you left empty, digits transposed in your identification number, and a date written with day and month the wrong way round. Check one more thing if you built this form from a copy you had lying around — old entries survive in a reused file, and they will go forward as though you meant them.
You will find a Privacy Act statement on the form wherever personal information is collected. Read it at that point rather than skipping past it, because it tells you the authority for the collection, the purpose, the routine uses, and whether answering is mandatory. After you fill the form, remember that your copy contains personal data. Store it and transmit it as your office requires for records of that kind.
Download the form
Next comes the download itself. The formats available are PDF, XFDL, DOC, and you decide between them by asking how you will enter the information. If you plan to type, take the fillable pdf: the boxes accept keyboard input and you can save the result. If you plan to write by hand, take the printable pdf and run it through your printer while it is still blank. Both show the same published page, so the decision affects your method and nothing else.
Once the file is on your machine, open it deliberately. A pdf will usually launch in your browser, which reads well enough but does not always hold what you type; certain viewers display the fields and then discard your entries. Save the download to a folder, open it from there in a dedicated reader, and test one field and one save before you commit to filling the whole thing. Should you prefer the doc version, open it in a word processor. It is the right choice while you are drafting or circulating a template internally, but keep an eye on the layout, since typing pushes the printed spacing around. If the xfdl file is what you need, install the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer first. No pdf reader and no word processor will open it.
Then simply download. There is no charge, no sign-up and no email to hand over, and the file that arrives is exactly what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- AKO_Email_Address
- APFT
- APFT_Date
- APFT_Date_label
- APFT_Date_line
- APFT_Height
- APFT_Standard
- APFT_Weight
- Academic_Rater_Date
- Academic_Rater_Email_Address
- Academic_Rater_Organization
- Academic_Rater_PMOSC_Branch
- Academic_Rater_Signature
- Academic_Raters_Signature
- Achieved_Course_Standards
- Assignment_1
- Assignment_2
- Assignment_3
- Branch
- Class_Standing_Number1
- Class_Standing_Number2
- Commandants_List
- Component
- Component_List
With the form signed, send it where AR 623-3 tells you to send it — usually to the office it names, or through your unit administrative channel, or straight into your own record, depending on why you raised it. Keep a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands. How long the receiving office holds it is not your decision or theirs; the records schedule for the series settles that, and local habit does not override it.
If you find you need a second form to go with this one, look by series and number. Forms in the DA series that share a proponent or a prescribing directive are often used together, and any form named on the face of this one normally goes forward with it. Gather continuation sheets, cover sheets and transmittal documents before you submit, not after somebody asks for them.
The next time you open this form from your own files, check the edition date first. Revisions come from the proponent without warning to you, so the only reliable step is to hold your copy against the current edition before filling it in again. Records you already completed under a superseded edition stand, and you do not go back to rework them.
Finally, know where you are. These are copies of published Department of the Army forms, made available for you to download. The site is independent, unconnected to the Department of the Army, and in no position to issue forms or to promise that any office will accept yours. None of this is legal advice. If a specific entry puzzles you, if you are unsure a requirement applies, or if eligibility is in question, put the question to G-1 or to the administrative office serving your unit.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 1059?
- SERVICE SCHOOL ACADEMIC EVALUATION REPORT
- Which edition is current?
- 03/01/2019
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL, DOC, PDF
Publisher notes
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA