Alvará — The five collective marks

The Working Dressage collective marks · 7.4

The five collective marks

Every exercise and every collective mark is scored out of ten. The five collective marks are added to the exercise marks to make the dressage score — and one of the five is the rider’s. Below: how far the five can carry a score.

Try it — how far the five collective marks carry the score

The 22 exercises are held at 6.5 — a 65% test. Only the five collective marks move.

All five collective marks — move them together

6.5

set all five to

65.0%

of the whole dressage test · 175.5 / 270

60% pass

All five, 6 → 8

+3.7%

The rider’s mark alone, 6 → 8

+0.7%

or set each mark on its own

One of five marks for the whole ride — and in the Young Riders test the rider’s counts double.

The Working Dressage collective marks · 7.4

Each scored 0–10 · coefficient 1 in most tests, 2 in some · one of the five is the rider’s

Worked example — the 22/21 exercises held at 6.5 (a 65% test), the five collective marks raised together
Collective marks all at	6	7	8	6 → 8
Masters (of 270, ×1)	64.1%	65.9%	67.8%	+3.7%
Young Riders (of 300, four ×2)	63.5%	66.5%	69.5%	+6.0%

The rider’s mark alone, raised 6 → 8: +0.7% in a Masters test, +1.3% in a Young Riders test. Doubling the four marks makes every point the rider earns count twice.

Fig. 7.4 · The five collective marks

Five marks for the whole ride — the rider’s among them, and doubled where the test doubles the marks.

Every exercise and every collective mark is scored 0–10, half-marks allowed, then multiplied by a coefficient. In the WAWE Senior and Master tests each collective mark carries a coefficient of 1, so the five are 50 of the test’s 270 marks (the WAWE Junior test is the same at coefficient 1, over a shorter 240-mark test). The WAWE Young Riders test doubles four of them — Paces, Impulsion, Submission and the Rider at coefficient 2, Presentation at coefficient 1 — making the five 90 of 300 marks. Among the WAWE tests, only the Young Riders test doubles the collective marks. The Portuguese APSL tests apply a coefficient of 1 or 2 by category protocol; the APSL Masters test is the WAWE Seniors test. The Rider mark — the position and seat of the rider, and the correct and effective use of the aids — is also scored in the Ease of Handling trial. Sources: WAWE International Working Equitation Regulations 2025, dressage protocols pp. 52–61; APSL National Regulation 2025, 3.1.3.1.