I took the ASTB for the first time today, 76 9/6/8. I'm applying for SNA, so I'm trying to figure out if I need to retake and try to get my PFAR score up so it's on par with my other scores. I'm a senior in Mechanical Engineering, 3.74 GPA.
I've been lurking on this thread for a few weeks and all the info and google drives have been a huge study aid. I've been studying whenever I have free time for the past 2 weeks. For anyone who's interested, here's what I studied:
MST - I didn't spend too much time on this because of my major. I had a lot of questions on averages, along the lines of "if you get this on your homework and it's worth x% of your grade, what do you have to get on your exam to get y grade" I did have one log question, something like log3(log8(logx)) = -1 and find x. I did have one asking for combinations of license plates with 3 digits (of which the first could not be zero) followed by 4 letters, which would be 9*10*10*26*26*26*26 = 411278400 but I got caught up in the multiplication of 26^4 and ended up guessing the answer based on order of magnitude.
RCT - I thought I wasn't doing great in this section, there was a lot of dense text and similar answer choices. My best advice is read your options carefully and don't second-guess yourself.
MCT - This was easy because of my major. I didn't have any questions on levers, but I had one that was something like "if these buckets have equal amounts of water in them and barrel A is 50°F and barrel B is 120°F, which barrel will float higher?" and a lot on pulleys.
ANIT - I had a few questions on the empennage, some on historical aircraft, and some on
PBM - Study the flashcards for the UAV section, they help a lot. I averaged around 2 seconds on each one and got maybe 2 wrong.
My recruiter suggested I play this game called War Thunder to practice with a joystick, and I think it helped some but not a lot. Like a lot of people have said, there's a huge dead zone in the throttle, which makes it kind of hard to get the hang of. For the tracking + throttle portion, I focused on the tracking screen and watched the throttle in my periphery, which seemed to work well. I didn't feel like I was doing well at all to begin with, but I definitely improved before I completed the test. Dichotic listening wasn't bad, I leaned my head to the side I was listening to so I could keep track of which ear I was listening to while I did the tracking exercises. I wrote down the emergency procedures and had no issues there.