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thank you!I had this same problem on my test, and I believe I answered 32. I viewed this as 2^(1/2), 2^(2/2), 2^(3/2) ... 2^(10/2). Since the tenth element is 2^(10/2) which is 2^5 I believe the answer is 32.
thank you!I had this same problem on my test, and I believe I answered 32. I viewed this as 2^(1/2), 2^(2/2), 2^(3/2) ... 2^(10/2). Since the tenth element is 2^(10/2) which is 2^5 I believe the answer is 32.
Hello everyone, just took the ASTB-E earlier and thought I would share my experience. Feel free to message me if you have any further questions. I received a 56 7/8/8. I would like to thank everyone here for sharing their information and helping myself and others out.
Background Info: I am a current senior pursuing a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a 3.35 gpa with no prior experience in aviation. I hope to be applying for SNA for the upcoming February board.
Studying and Resources:
I studied for about 3 weeks before the exam anywhere from 2-4 days a week for about 4 hours per session, alternating with my school schedule. I felt fairly confident for the math, reading, and mechanical comprehension so I mainly focused on the ANIT portion of the exam. Whenever I was taking a practice exam or studying, I would write on a notecard every question that I got wrong and would study them on my free time.
Barrons Military Flight Aptitude Tests: Good resource, I knew fairly little about the ANIT portion of the test coming in, and this book did quite a good job of helping me learn and prepare for that section. I skimmed over most of the math, reading, and mechanical explanations as I had a pretty good understanding of them coming in so I can not attest for them. As for the two practice tests, I felt that they were pretty helpful and fairly similar to my exam.
ASTB-E Secrets: I just used this book for the practice test which was helpful for me, however that is all I used it for. If I were to do this again, I am not sure if I would have purchased this book.
Jacob1792's files not too far back were extremely helpful, and I would definitely recommend using his and all other online resources on this forum. The practice exams were really just for timing and simulating the real test but most of my studying was done from these online resources and notecards.
The Exam:
The morning of the exam I left at 0600 to be at the testing facility at 0815. I hit pretty bad traffic and arrived at 0745 but went in feeling confident and ready to tackle the exam, which I believe is one of the most important things to do going in.
MST: Many of the questions here matched both Barron's, ASTB-E Secrets, and the online resources here. I had questions, mainly word problems, about fractions, percentages, DRT, and combined work. I had one radical, one logarithmic, and one matrix multiplication problem. After about 19 questions I was kicked out with around 8 minutes remaining.
RCT: This was probably the section I did worst on, as reading comprehension exams have never been my strong suit. The passages were fairly dry paragraphs about military organizations, procedures, and science. My strategy was to read the answers first and then the passage so I had an idea of what to look for. I answered around 19 questions with 5 minutes left before being kicked out.
MCT: This section had many similar questions from Barrons's, ASTB-E Secrets, and the online resources here as the MST section did. I had questions on pulleys, fulcrums, chemistry, physics, and F=ma. If you study the resources here you should be okay for this section. I probably answered around 20+ questions with a couple minutes remaining.
ANIT: This section was just memorization of the notecards and resources posted here. I must have anwsered 10 questions or so and was kicked out after 5 minutes, which was surprising to me. I was expecting this section to be longer, but I suppose I must have been doing fairly well? I just had questions on what controls yaw, roll, some nautical terms like bulkhead, etc, nothing too out of the ordinary and not too many history questions surprisingly.
NATFI: Just try your best, I answered the questions with being a Naval Officer in mind which I think helped make some of the choices easier to chose from. I tended to chose teamwork based answers as opposed to individual based ones.
PBM: I highly recommend learning the compass trick as this really helped me during this portion. I got 3 wrong during the parking lot problem with an average of around 3 seconds/answer.
As for the dichotic listening, throttle, and joystick parts, just try your best. I found the dichotic listening easier than I expected, probably since I am slightly use to multitasking and calls from video games. As for the throttle and joysticks, especially the combined parts, I was probably on target for about 10% of the time. I would just recommend keep trying your best and don't get discouraged or get frustrated, and try to have fun with it. Definitely write down and try to memorize the emergency procedures, this part was not difficult if you have done this.
Summary: All in all, I would say this exam was what I was expecting, there are no surprises if you read this forum and do a proper amount of studying. Go into the exam confident and ready to do well. Good luck to everyone taking the ASTB-E!
" [Sq. Root of 2]: [2] : [2 sq. Root of 2] find the 10th in the series which now seems so simple... "
would the answer be 2?
thank you for the review!
Attn Aviation applicants: the simulator portion of the ASTB was one of the hardest tests I’ve ever taken. Granted, I had no flying/flight simulator experience. I’m sure some of you found it easier, and others found it just as difficult as I did if not worse. Somehow I passed and was accepted to OCS, even though I thought I didn’t have a shot.
My best advice for that would be stay calm. During that portion, there will be A LOT thrown at you at once. If you freak out and get stressed it’ll make it that much more difficult. I’m sure it’s designed for that purpose; to test your ability to stay calm in a high-stress, unpredictable environment. Stay calm, don’t panic, and focus on doing your best. Best of luck to all taking the test!
Oct 14!Do you have a class date?
Unless I'm missing something, the probability of rolling a 2+ on a standard die is 5/6 (6 total options, only one number you're trying to avoid) and the probability of pulling a heart from a deck of cards is 1/4 (the deck is evenly divided into 4 suits).2. What is the chance of getting a 2 or more on a dice or a heart from a deck of cards. I didn’t really understand the question. I still don’t but if any of you can help I would greatly appreciate it. I don’t remember the answers, so I am not sure that the answer I have in front of me is correct. Seems easy
I had this same question and posted about it back on page 266. Have a look there and see if it helps you.3. A (69 sideways) B=A-B-AB and A (69 symbol sideways)5=6 solve for A. This really pissed me off because I have never seen that symbol before unless I didn’t see it correctly. Help me with this please ☹ hard because I didn’t know what the symbol meant.
omg I know remember this...Unless I'm missing something, the probability of rolling a 2+ on a standard die is 5/6 (6 total options, only one number you're trying to avoid) and the probability of pulling a heart from a deck of cards is 1/4 (the deck is evenly divided into 4 suits).
I had this same question and posted about it back on page 266. Have a look there and see if it helps you.
Just took the ASTB-E and thought I would post on here as it helped me a ton.
Score: 7/8/6 56
Background Info:
I am a sophomore at a service academy majoring in Aerospace Engineering. I have a 3.4 (roughly) GPA and I am a private pilot with about 178 hours. I will be selecting SNA.
Studying and Resources:
I didn't get to study as much as I would have liked to simply due to the nature of my school. However, I was still able to get solid studying time in mostly for the math and mechanical comprehension sections. I probably studied a net of 2 hours a day for about two weeks. I found that the study material made by people on this forum was more helpful than some of the books. I ranked my study materials below:
1. Study Material found on this forum
2. Barrons Military Flight Aptitude Tests: This book is great for walking you through a lot of the concepts and also has many good practice tests. However, I found a lot of the math questions were harder than in the book. It is worth the buy.
3. Master the Military Flight Aptitude Test: Not the best book by any means, but it did have some good questions if that what you are looking for.
My school also put on various ASTB review sessions which outlined the structure of the test and some example problems. This forum is a better equivalent to this. I think I probably read through 100-150 pages.
The Exam:
I had the exam in the afternoon after a heavy load of engineering classes. I tried to get as much rest as possible, taking about two naps throughout the day. I drank a lot of water and ate a sizable amount for breakfast and lunch which I think helped.
MST: I ran out of time on this section and probably did the worst on it. There were plenty of algebra questions, fractions, lots of averages, and one log and matrix problem. The averages were the toughest by far. Much harder than anything in the test preparation material which made me feel uncomfortable and not confident at all. This probably hurt my score the most.
"Josh scores a 75, 60, and 94, on the first 3 exams. If his 4th exam is 10/9 of the average of the first three, what does he have to score on the next two in order to average a 85 on exams."
"A war starts in the year x^2 and ends in the year (x+1)^2. If the total length of the war is 29 years, what year did the war start.
RCT: I felt like I did better than I thought on this exam, but I am still not sure. I read the passages multiple times and then went to the answers. Obvious incorrect statements I threw out before going back to read the passage to decide on the answer that was closest.
MCT: The questions here were very similar to the study material on this website as well as Barrons study book. You can easily study pretty much everything you need on this section: everything is out there. I made my money here. I had 3 ideal gas law problems, pulleys, force, no gears, and no circuits. Overall pretty easy.
ANIT: Anything I say here is probably not helpful as I have flight experience and I am an Aero major. I started out with an AoA question, to a question about some aerodynamic properties of ailerons and elevators, to questions about the AIM and things only private pilots would know. So I knew I was doing well here. Only questions I had regarding nautical stuff was "What is the lowest deck on a ship called / What is the highest deck called." This section probably lasted 5 minutes max.
NATFI: I just answered these honestly. I heard that trying to fabricate your answers can dig you a hole. If I couldn't decide between two questions I generally picked what made me seem more of an extrovert or a leader. I think they may just be looking for consistency here.
PBM: During the practice I just decided to use the compass trick as I was not consistent without it. I missed one question averaging around 2-3 seconds each.
I was able to practice this a little bit before taking it by using a simulator made in matlab that is on this forum. However, I did have to modify the simulator to correct the y axis inversion. Overall, this probably did not help much at all. Maybe it just got me used to the controls. Putting everything together with the listening was hard, but just try your best. I would recommend not pausing to take a breath nor anything alike. Just keep going, keep trying and you should come out of it well.
Summary: This forum was the biggest help in figuring out what to expect. Go in confident about your studying and you should do well. I am content with my scores and will keep them. However, if I had to take it again, I would say that my first experience taking it would be the most help in doing better the second time around.
i think the best way to do the war problem is to understand that the difference between the start date and end date is 29, so (x+1)^2 -x^2=29? involves foiling and stuff but the answer should be 14. im not entirely sure though
Are you going for aviation? If so, the LORs don't carry much at all. My recruiter didn't have me do any.Quick question regarding LORs. I have three LORs so far. 2 Vice Admirals (yes, I know them personally) and 1 from a Cabinet Secretary (also yes, I know him personally). I’m working on getting my scores up from my previous OAR. If I score within the high 40s low 50s, how well will my LORs carry me? I also am prior experience with multiple leadership roles inside and outside the military.