If you’re reading this blog, there’s a very good chance that you want to join the United States military. Perhaps it’s been your lifelong dream to drive a tank, fire a machine gun, or blow things up (legally). Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn how to cook for 2,000 people at a time. Possibly you were attracted to the military because of education and training opportunities, the chance of travel, or huge enlistment bonuses.
In any event, by now you’ve discovered that you can’t just walk into a recruiter’s office and say, “Hey, I’m here. Sign me up!” You’ve found out that the military requires you to pass an entrance exam. Gone are the good old days when the entrance exam consisted of “Is he breathing?” These days you have to pass something called the ASVAB.
The ASVAB (short for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) is unlike any test you’ve ever taken. Sure, the test covers standard academic areas, such as math and English, but it also measures your knowledge of other areas, such as mechanics, electronics, science, and assembling objects. When was the last time your high school or college professor tested you on putting a jigsaw puzzle together?
The good news is you need to do well on some of the subtests but not all of them. (When was the last time you heard someone say, “Don’t bother studying for that”?) But we can’t tell you which subjects and subtests are most important for your preparation. It’s a highly classified military secret. Okay, not really. The order of importance of the subtests depends on you and your career goals. You find out what you need to know to do well on all the subtests and then get the info to determine which subtests are important to you.
We include charts and tables in this blog to help you figure out the subtest scores that individual military jobs require. In fact, this study guide is the first to include this information.
The paper versions of the ASVAB have eight subtests, and the CAT-ASVAB has nine, each of which are covered in its own part in this blog. This blog shows you what to expect on each subtest, offers strategies and tactics for studying each subject area, gives you testtaking (and guessing) tips, and provides three full-length sample tests that help you determine your strengths and weaknesses. These sample tests also help you prepare mentally for taking the real test - you can use them to get in the zone. We’ve thrown in an extra test, covering the four most important subtests of the ASVAB that make up the AFQT score at no extra cost.
Although much of the material covered on the ASVAB is taught in practically every high school in the country, you could’ve slept through part of the info or performed a major brain dump as soon as the ink was dry on your report card. So you also get some basic review of the relevant subject areas to help refresh your memory and include pointers on where to find more information if you need it.
In any event, by now you’ve discovered that you can’t just walk into a recruiter’s office and say, “Hey, I’m here. Sign me up!” You’ve found out that the military requires you to pass an entrance exam. Gone are the good old days when the entrance exam consisted of “Is he breathing?” These days you have to pass something called the ASVAB.
The ASVAB (short for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) is unlike any test you’ve ever taken. Sure, the test covers standard academic areas, such as math and English, but it also measures your knowledge of other areas, such as mechanics, electronics, science, and assembling objects. When was the last time your high school or college professor tested you on putting a jigsaw puzzle together?
The good news is you need to do well on some of the subtests but not all of them. (When was the last time you heard someone say, “Don’t bother studying for that”?) But we can’t tell you which subjects and subtests are most important for your preparation. It’s a highly classified military secret. Okay, not really. The order of importance of the subtests depends on you and your career goals. You find out what you need to know to do well on all the subtests and then get the info to determine which subtests are important to you.
We include charts and tables in this blog to help you figure out the subtest scores that individual military jobs require. In fact, this study guide is the first to include this information.
The paper versions of the ASVAB have eight subtests, and the CAT-ASVAB has nine, each of which are covered in its own part in this blog. This blog shows you what to expect on each subtest, offers strategies and tactics for studying each subject area, gives you testtaking (and guessing) tips, and provides three full-length sample tests that help you determine your strengths and weaknesses. These sample tests also help you prepare mentally for taking the real test - you can use them to get in the zone. We’ve thrown in an extra test, covering the four most important subtests of the ASVAB that make up the AFQT score at no extra cost.
Although much of the material covered on the ASVAB is taught in practically every high school in the country, you could’ve slept through part of the info or performed a major brain dump as soon as the ink was dry on your report card. So you also get some basic review of the relevant subject areas to help refresh your memory and include pointers on where to find more information if you need it.
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