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CEP Point Award Outline

You MUST be a BJCP member to receive points. For this purpose, membership is determined by the date you took the BJCP exam.

• BREWs
• Special Event Brews
• BICEPs
• BICEP bonus points
• BICEP retroactive points

BREW session

• NO retroactive points will be allowed.
• Organizers may NOT earn attendee points but MAY earn presenter points.
• Presenters MAY earn both presenter and attendee points in same day but NOT for same BREW session.

Special Event BREWs

• NO retroactive points will be allowed.
• Organizers may NOT earn presenter or attendee points.
• A co-organizer may be chosen and will split the organizer points equally.
• Presenters will earn points on the same schedule as a normal BREW session.
• Attendees will earn points on the same schedule at a normal BREW session.
• Organizers may choose staff to help ONLY if absolutely necessary and upon approval.

BICEPs

• Retroactive points will be allowed for a limited time (see below).
• Organizers may earn presenter points but NOT attendee points.
• Organizers are eligible for bonus points based on the class test average (see below).
• Presenters MAY earn attendee points but not for the same class they present. In order to earn presenter points they must present both stylistic and technical topics.

BICEP Bonus Points

Due to the fact that the quality of judging is directly related to the quality of these classes, organizers will be rewarded accordingly. Organizers of classes that do exceptionally well on the exam will rewarded with bonus points on the following point schedule:

• Class Test Average
• 75% = 1.0 point
• 68% = 0.5 point

• 10 take exam
• Scores are 82, 68, 63, 75, 72, 59, 61, 64, 58, 81
• Total of scores = 683 (of 1,000 possible)
• Average score roughly 68%, so 0.5 bonus point awarded.

BICEP Organizer Point Retroactivity

In our opinion, leading these BICEP courses is the SINGLE MOST important aspect of the CEP program. Without adequate primary education, continuing education lacks purpose and focus. Therefore, the organizers should be rewarded for their effort.

• We have extensive records of tests that were given,
• The class leader is nearly always the exam proctor and
• If the class leader was not the proctor then the tasting proctors can vouch for the BICEP leader.

A two-year post-deadline is placed on applying for retroactive points starting from the initiation of the CEP Program, January 1, 2005. (e.g. BICEP tests given before January 1st, 2003 are ineligible).
This is a one time only opportunity and will not be carried into the future. The course leader has one year to apply for their retroactive points starting May 1st, 2005.

*****NOTE***** Future BJCP course leaders must fill out the CEP BJCP course application form. If not done before the test for the class is taken, no organizer points will be awarded.

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