Asvab Score - understanding Your Afqt Score

Considering how leading your Asvab score is to your future in the soldiery it's surprising that more habitancy don't know how it affects their opportunity of qualifying for their target assistance subject and soldiery job.

First, what most habitancy call their "Asvab Score" is no ifs ands or buts their "Afqt Score". The Afqt (Armed soldiery Qualification Test) score is made up of four of the nine Asvab subtests:

Asvab Practice Questions

* Word Knowledge (Wk)

Asvab Score - understanding Your Afqt Score

* Paragraph comprehension (Pc)

* Arithmetic thinking (Ar)

* Mathematics Knowledge (Mk)

which are combined using the recipe 2(Wk + Pc) + Ar + Mk to get your Afqt score.

It's no ifs ands or buts a dinky more complicated than that but, in the end, you'll end up with a single score that measures your doing on these four subtests as compared with every other someone who took the Asvab test.

So, your Asvab score of 70 simply means that, on the subtests that make up the Afqt score, you scored great than 70% of the other applicants who took the test. There's no "passing" or "failing" the Asvab there's just the score you achieved on the nine subtests and how those scores qualify you for enlistment in the military.

Speaking of enlistment, that's the original function of the Afqt score - to conclude if you meet the minimum qualification for enlistment in the military. That minimum qualification is different depending on your assistance subject (Army is the bottom at 31 and Coast Guard is the top at 40), either you have a high school diploma or Ged (Ged applicants need a 50 and often some college credits), and if you're enlisting as an active duty soldier or in the reserves (reserves have higher Asvab score requirements).

Your Afqt score is also used to conclude if you qualify for an enlistment bonus, college loan repayment, college plans, and other enlistment bonuses. These typically need a minimum Asvab score of 50.

The subtests that make up the Afqt score are also used to speculate some of your "line scores" which are used to part your knowledge and aptitude in varied occupational areas and qualify you for single jobs within the armed services. Your Afqt score gets you in and your line scores get you the job you want.

Asvab Score - understanding Your Afqt Score