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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on December 06, 2004, 04:35:46 PM
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Anyone ever take it ? Took it about a month ago. Did pretty well.
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yep , took it in 1984, scored 98 first time around when I was 16 , was set to go into nuclear physics, then had a head injury.....since I had an injury to the head I had to retake it because I had some memory loss......the rest is history!
ended up being a jet mech
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It dosnt have a over all score anymore. It has 3 Basic scores, Verbal Skills, Math Skills, and Science and Technical Skills. It also has a Military career score of 0 to 7. Finallly, there is a Military Entrance score of 0 to 100.
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A few years ago I was thinking about enlisting. Didn't end up doing it, and regret it to this day.
That said, I got an 82 on the ASVAB. I was pretty bummed about the score, but then I met three guys who were trying to join the Marines. One was upset because he scored one point shy of the minimum (believe it was 34). Another one just made it, and a third beat it by a point.
I asked them what they wanted to do in the service, and they said "shoot people and break stuff".... I imagined relying on them in combat and thought to myself, "Maybe this isn't such a good idea.... :rolleyes: "
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Took mine in 1981.
Scored 109.
From what I heard later on 110+ was officer material. If true, I wonder how different my life would have been.
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Different services have different scoring measures as well.
With the Marines I scored an Overal of 92 and my Clerical mechanical and electrical was all over 120. I was qualified to do anything I wanted in the Marines.
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I scored a 98 for the Marines.
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You guys are referring to about 3 different scores. There's an overall score....1 to 98 or 99...don't remember. There are also other scores that correlate to specific career fields. The one most used by the Army is the General Technical score (GT). It goes up to 138 I believe.
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I thought the Marines just required a pulse?
Just kidding jarheads. :p
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Not familiar with the test but I'm curious. How many points do you get for filling your name out correctly? Dis-regard - just goofing. I know on our Police Recruit Test you get 20 points for filling out your name correctly - test is based on 0 to 100 points.
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There is no overall "ASVAB Score." When you hear someone saying "I got an 80 on my ASVAB," they are talking about their AFQT (Armed Forces Qualifying Test) score, not an "overall" ASVAB Score.
Only four areas of the ASVAB test are used to compute the overall ASVAB score, also known as the AFQT (Armed Forces Qualification Test) score.
The four areas of the ASVAB used to compute the AFQT score are: Word Knowledge (WK), Paragraph Comprehension (PC), Arithmatic Reasoning (AR), and Mathmatics Knowledge (MK).
To determine the AFQT "raw score," first you have to compute your Verbal Expression (VE) score:
VE (Verbal Expression) = Scaled Score of WK+PC. To get the VE scaled score, add your Word Knowledge (WK) & Paragraph Comprehension (PC) score together, then use the below chart:
WK+PC VE Score WK+PC VE Score
0-3= 20/ 28-29= 42
4-5= 21/ 30-31= 44
6-7= 22/ 32-33= 45
8-9= 22/ 34-35= 47
10-11= 25/ 36-37= 49
12-13= 27/ 38-39= 50
14-15= 29/ 40-41= 52
16-17= 31/ 42-43= 54
18-19= 32/ 44-45= 56
20-21= 34/ 46-47= 58
22-23= 36/ 48-49= 60
24-25= 38/ 50= 62
26-27= 40/
The Overall ASVAB Score (AFQT Score) is a "percentile score."
The AFQT Raw Score is computed with the formula AFQT = 2VE + AR + MK.
You can't use the AR and MK score shown on your ASVAB Score Sheet. The Score Sheet shows "number correct" for your AR and MK Scores, because "number correct" is what is used for job qualifications. However, the military does not use this same score when computing the AFQT. They use the "weighted scores" of the ASVAB sub-tests for AR and MK. Harder questions in these areas get more points than easier questions. The "weighted scores" for AR and WK are not listed on the ASVAB score sheet given to you after the test, and I know of no way to retrieve that information from DOD.
The "raw score" is then compared to the below chart to determine overall ASVAB percentile score.
Std Score Percentile (AFQT) Std Score Percentile (AFQT)
80-120 1 204 50
121-124 2 205 51
125-127 3 206 52
128-131 4 207-208 53
132-134 5 209 54
135-137 6 210 55
138-139 7 211 56
140-142 8 212 57
143-144 9 213 58
145-146 10 214 59
147-148 11 215 61
149-150 12 216 62
151-153 13 217 63
154 14 218 64
155-156 15 219 65
157-158 16 220 66
159-160 17 221 67
161-162 18 222 68
163-164 19 223 69
165 20 224 70
166-167 21 225 71
168-169 22 226 72
170-171 23 227 73
172 24 228 74
173-174 25 229 75
175 26 230 76
176-177 27 231 77
178 28 232 78
179-180 29 233 79
181 30 234 80
182 31 235 81
183-184 32 236 82
185 33 237 83
186 34 238-239 84
187-188 35 240 85
189 36 241 86
190 37 242 87
191 38 243 88
192 39 244 89
193 40 245 90
194 41 246 91
195-196 42 247 92
197 43 248 93
198 44 249 94
199 45 250 95
200 46 251 96
201 47 252 97
202 48 253 98
203 49 254-320 99
If you want to determine what jobs you are qualified for, then you have to have a certain qualifing score in a certain area depending on the cereer field you are interested in. For the Army you would use DA PAM 611-21 to look up the MOS you want to do. In there it will give you the decription and the qualifing criteria to determine if you qualify for that particular MOS.
Hope this helps.
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Damn. Someone must be a recruiter. I'm already signed up dude, go away :D
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Originally posted by Dune
I thought the Marines just required a pulse?
Just kidding jarheads. :p
No.. thats the Army.
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LOL...No I'm not a recruiter, just trying to help crearify how it works is all. Alot of misconceptions as to how it really works.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Anyone ever take it ? Took it about a month ago. Did pretty well.
Took it in 1977 had an overall of 132...but found out I was color blind and wound up a gun grunt (artillery):lol :lol :rofl ..Oh well...
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Scored a 95 for the Marines, they said I could do what ever I wanted.
I volunteered for the Infantry. What a ride...
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Took this two years ago and got an 87, qualified to basically do what ever I wanted (Ranger) but then health problems cropped up and bye bye dream
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was it Arithmatic Reasoning (AR), and Mathmatics Knowledge (MK) that had the quotation problems? you know the ones where was like 2x5= 10 , 8 x 5 = 40 12 / 2 = 6 etc.... was like 150 of them or 153 or 200 or something like that and you had like 3 or 5 mins to answer them all.... that one was my best where I did them all in lil over 2 1/2 mins and got em all right, blew that recruiters mind
doh....my mind fades me sometimes, that was a qualifying test to see how well I might do on the ASVAB, had something similar on the ASVAB if I recall correctly but was not like this test.....
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In 1976 I spelled my name right on the test.
I qualified for OCS.
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I took it in '83. had a 99.3 or 99.7 (can't remember which)
IIRC at the time they told me that was an over-all percentile based score. I could be wrong though, at 18 yrs old listening wasn't my strong suit.