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That is exactly how I felt. If you are getting difficult questions over and over you are doing well apparently.64 8/8/9 on my first attempt today.
Had to do the math section twice because the computer froze and felt like I was doing awful on every portion of the test but it somehow worked out.
Hey, this is extremely late... but what kind of math questions did you see on your final OAR attempt?Took the ASTB for the 3rd and final time today. Scored a 49 5/7/6. My recruiter was happy with my scores saying I needed a 5/6/6 to qualify. I felt this was the hardest version of the test I have taken yet and my OAR showed it. Just want to thank everyone on here for the help! Fingers crossed!
Hey! Do you remember the farmer fraction question being 375? I tried working this out... I converted the tons into lbs, and just cancelled them out. I could be wrong.I just took the ASTB for the first time about 4 hours ago. Thought I would post before it all faded. I had to post on here as it helped me immensely in studying and doing decently well on the test. I have been studying for 6 months with most of the studying coming in the last 3 weeks. I work a job that is 3 12 hour shifts and then I had 4 days off to study. I used Mostly online materials that I found from this site and Googling the rest. I bought the complete ASTB Study guide and it was good but information found on this thread was way better.
61 OAR 6/6/7 My goal was above 60 and 7's across the board. Was close to my goal.
I study super hard for the Math section which helped my score the most. Know how to deal with fractions of fractions (I had one question that said if a farmer donates 1/8 of his crops to charity and he raised 2 and 1/2 tons how many tons did he donate.), know your times tables and get good at working out problems with out a calculator. There were a couple of Speed questions if they drove 45 mph for 40 min and 34 mph for 20 min and then they drove 10 mph slower then the average of the first two legs what was the speed of the second leg. Things like that.
The RCT was way tougher than I thought it would be. The questions had lots of big words and dry they did not paint a picture just facts. Read military history and sum up each paragraph. Read a lot.
The MCT was not similar to things I had studied. There were a lot less pictures and more words like if you have a 2 stroke engine how many times does the piston compress or something like that. They were wordy questions about mechanical comprehension.
The Aviation and Nautical terms ended really early or at least felt like that. Just know your aviation terms and nautical terms basic. Not to bad.
The UAV Portion was really fun to me. Get quick at the compass rose trick and then practice doing that mentally with out the compass. Average about 1-3 seconds.
The last portion was way hard for me. I haven't played video games in a long time it was like trying to ride a bike and having no experience riding a bike. I was all over the place and forgot that up was down and down was up. vertical tracking was not responsive and then the more i pushed forward it became uber responisve. then add your dichotic listening in I would forget what I was doing and forget to push buttons. they did speak slower than I thought they would.
Sorry for the long response. Study Math in depth. Sorry I forgot to tell you my background. I have a bachelors from BYU-Idaho in Health Science was planning to go to Physician Assistant School but felt my calling was in the Military specifically Becoming a Pilot. My GPA was 3.5.
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Congrats on your scores! What are some of the math topics you encountered on your final attempt?I took my first exam back in February and received a 50 5/5/5. I didn’t know much about the test going into it and, obviously, didn’t do too well. The joystick portion really kicked my ass since I didn’t grow up with video games and didn’t completely understand the inverted controls. However, exactly 30 days later I went back again and got a 50 4/5/5—I was devastated that I did even worse! But I think there were a few things that really kept me from doing well. I went back on June 21 for my third and final try and received a 51 6/7/7, which isn’t super amazing scores but scores that I am still proud of.
Here’s my take on the different sections:
- I spent the nights before the first two tests worrying about how well I would do and stayed up extremely late trying to cram information in before the exam but on my last exam I went out early with some friends to a pub and studied a little bit (but not too much) before going to bed relatively early and getting nearly 8 hours of sleep.
- I drank too much caffeine and didn’t really eat much before my first two tests but this time I took a slow morning and had only one cup of coffee and a full breakfast and some fish oil for brain activity.
- I didn’t really know what was going to happen during my first exam and only gave myself about a week to study and then in my second exam I studied up on what was in my first exam and got really cocky that I knew it all—the second exam was completely different than my first exam question wise.
- I prayed a lot before the exam and did some push-ups throughout in order to get rid of the built up nervous energy.
Math – After my second exam I ended up creating a Khan Academy account and it was probably the best thing I could’ve done because it walked me through different formulas and problems and had videos to walk me through everything as well. I also ordered the Barron’s Math GRE book and it helped a lot, too. Pay attention to all the answers and know exactly which one you are clicking on—I got a little clicker happy on my first two tries and it hurt my scores.
Reading- This section is super face value, the only advice I can give is to read each statement allowed several times because they are super dry and boring and some of the answers seem right but they are just a little off—watch out for the little details. I actually ran out of time (I was in the middle of a question and it kicked me out) which probably hurt my score a little bit.
Mechanical-Huge emphasis on pulleys and the like, just make sure to brush up on high school physics.
ANIT-The Quizlet’s help so much! Memorize everything that you possibly can because this is the easiest section to improve on.
NATFI-This section pairs up two statements about how you would describe yourself more and they are usually super self-deprecating but make it through just by being honest.
UAV-The compass rose trick using the pencil as a spinner helped me so much—I missed a few but that just because I wasn’t paying to exactly which parking lot I was clicking on.
Dichotic Listening-The best advice I can give is to lean towards the target ear and bunch up your shoulder with side of the headphones to try to clearly hear in the target ear and push the other noise away. I also wrote down below the trigger and clutch which one I should press when there was an odd or even number because I know that the last time I took it I missed a lot of them because I wasn’t being careful.
2-D Tracking-I bought a joystick and throttle and I think it helped a little bit but I was practicing with a 3-D simulator and the test uses a pacman style layout with 2-D. What I did do was use a part of the scratch paper and write out PUSH=DIVE and PULL=CLIMB to remind myself that it was inverted. I also kept track of the larger side of the screen with both my eyes and out of the side of my left eye I kept track of the smaller section.
2-D Tracking & Dichotic-This is where shit gets real and I don’t think anybody really does that great here.
Emergency Procedures-Write them down but also before starting make sure that the I-knob and E-knobs are set to about 50 otherwise you have to take them fully back down or up in order for you to finish the emergency sequence.
Attached is a Word document that contains a lot of really useful flashcards, readings and practice tests.
Anit- like everyone else says, this is just knowledge you know or you don't and there is a wide range of topics to study for it. Also I'm pretty sure the answer for the question regarding the aircraft converted to a tanker in OIF is the Tomcat, the S-3 Viking wasn't an answer.
Yea they must, I found that both planes have had tanker roles after your comment the other day so I was worried. Im just glad that both weren't options hahaThey must have a large bank of these questions because I specifically remember choosing S-3 for this question.
I just remembered a question that I had and it threw me off. It was something like, "if you're landing on runway 28, what runway heading would be the opposite?" My initial thought was 80 but the only options were 100, 180, 240, and 360. Can someone tell me what I missed? Lol