Five judges scored each diver, giving two results.

Each judge gave an ordinal placing for each diver in a group, with the five scores being summed to give a total ordinal points score.

The two divers who scored the smallest number of points in each group of the first round plus the two best scoring non-qualified divers of all groups advanced to the final.

Ordinal placings were used to rank divers within the group, but were not used to determine qualification.

In the final, ordinal placings were the primary ranking method with dive scores being used only to break ties.