• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Anyone taken the ASVAB?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
lol these responses are cracking me the f up. I got a 99 on it too. It was harder than i thought but the scores are weighed so heavily towards non-down-syndrome people that if you get ANYTHING right you pass. The sad thing was that i was on recruiting duty for a while and some of the guys we had to tutor to try to get a passing score and they couldn't pass to save their life. They were coming in with scores of like 10 and i was like 'are you f'ing retarded? Don't ever join my Marine Corps because i don't want your dumb ass to accidentally shoot me because you confused "cease fire" with "fire at will"
 
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Originally posted by: TheSiege
No, he is not challenged. I haven't actually seen the test, and maybe I misunderstood his score, but I'm pretty sure he didn't pass. Here is what I found for sample questions.

http://www.testprepreview.com/modules/algebra2.htm

if its like this then its going to be pretty tough for him, hell, these look pretty tough for me.
Click to expand...

There was nothing remotely as difficult as the questions on the above site. I use the term "difficult" loosely.
Click to expand...

I just looked over that site. Those are not ASVAB-type questions, and they are not promoting them as such. They are displaying the kinds of questions from each subject tested, that are pretty what a general test of those subjects would have. However, the ASVAB's questions are the type that if someone knows the name of the subject, they can probably guess through simply understanding the correct answers to a majority of questions. They are far from difficult.

I find this kind of comical and depressing. It's depressing, because it's a low score and that shows a very complete ineptitude for.. well life.
it's comical because well, actually first.... its relieving because I really don't want any guys in the outfit that I will call my own in a few years, to be so challenged as to not be able to attain at least decent scores on the ASVAB. I want a little spark in the guys that I will lead. 😉
however, I am also wondering, if he is simply confusing to scores.
Unless the way the score was reported since I've taken it a few years back (about 3 or 4 years?), the actual 'score' is the big bold number pretty much towards the middle of the page (lmao).. however, he may not be looking at that number, and rather looking at another 'score', termed something along the lines of 'military identification score' or something containing at least 1 of those words, confident in the the use of the word military 😉 But what I am trying to say, maybe he scored an 8 (which is great iirc, as I scored a lower number there).. and thinks the 38 required is for that score, which iirc, is way to high of a number for that score. The 38 would be for the larger, bolder number in the report. That, or something that is displayed immediately right of the percentile graph. Again, the report may have changed it's layout or readout, as I am not sure how mine would differ from the others prior and after.
 
Originally posted by: DJFuji
yup. Marines are smarter than soldiers. 🙂
Click to expand...

only when using the term 'smarter' loosly 😛

however, I could easily fit in the ranks of the nutty in the Marine Corps, as I hoping to branch Armor (want armored cav.) and get myself in the shit. That means less days doing the paperwork I'll inevitably be bored with. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Duddy
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Easiest test I've ever taken, literally.
The GED is harder than that thing.
It actually made me NOT want to join the armed forces.
Click to expand...

Ditto, I only missed 1 math question. I scored the highest of all time at my local recruiting office.
Click to expand...

Thats nothing to be proud of...rofl..hahahaa
 
I'm with the camp that believes there's no way a human scored an 8. I took it in high school to get out of class and scored a 99.
 
woah....how did he get an 8? like.....its not even really a IQ test, its just kinda simple problems and equations. i think i got a 61 back in HS when i took it. but the score he should be paying attention to is the GT score. i know the high end jobs in the army require at least 110. probably the same in the airforce too. along with a clean record and secret clearance.
 
Originally posted by: BoberFett
Holy crap, I got a 99 on the ASVAB. I didn't realize an 8 was even possible. Did he spell his name wrong?
Click to expand...

I got a 99 as well. While I was at Ft. Benning, I didn't run across anyone that had higher absolute scores than I did, although there were two other 99s that I knew about.

(99 is a percentile, meaning that you did better than 99% of the people who took the test. It is not an absolute score.)
 
if it's multiple choice with 4 choices, shouldn't answering "B" for all questions get you approximately 25%? If this is the case, how would one go about getting an 8?
 
I think you misread the results. I cannot conceive of someone actually getting an 8. I've seen hundreds of scores from my school, and no one has ever come even close to an 8. No one has ever scored too low to get into the armed services (to my best recollection)
 
i got in the mid 90s someplace, when i took it i really didnt care about it and yea just kinda winged it
 
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
I'm with the camp that believes there's no way a human scored an 8. I took it in high school to get out of class and scored a 99.
Click to expand...

I consider it very possible. When we were forced to take it in high school, there were 4 people at a table, 4 versions of the test and it wasn't very well monitored. My friends and I sat at the same table and intentionally copied off of each other... with different versions of the test.


We didn't care.

 
Originally posted by: pontifex
didn't they give these out in high school? or was that another test?
Click to expand...

yes HS

junior or senior year, i cant remember, all i know is that i was like WTF another stupid standard test
 
Originally posted by: TheSiege
No, he is not challenged. I haven't actually seen the test, and maybe I misunderstood his score, but I'm pretty sure he didn't pass. Here is what I found for sample questions.

http://www.testprepreview.com/modules/algebra2.htm

if its like this then its going to be pretty tough for him, hell, these look pretty tough for me.
Click to expand...

This is the type of stuff I learned in 8th grade. I took algebra 2 in middle school and I wasn't all that stellar. Seriously, even the bad failing kids had to take this stuff between middle-high school.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top