Good Morning all,
I retested the ASTB this past Wednesday 1/10 and scored much better, going from 47 5/6/5 to 52 6/8/7. Overall, I put in a lot more studying for this test and was just more focused during the test as well. I didn't have school studies and projects to work around and that helped significantly, allowing me to study everyday for 2-3 hours a day.
For study material I used the Barron's Military Flight Aptitude Tests, Mometrix's ASTB-E Secrets Study Guide, Apatrickfly's updated study guide, Jacob1792's Math study, and Nelnet ASTB practice test site.
A lot of great advice has been given for all areas so I'll just give a quick review in a nutshell.
Math:
Started medium and did eventually max out my knowledge. Saw a lot of square roots and fractions mostly. Geometry was worked in as well in word problems. I think I only had one Distance, rate, and time question, and the last few were probability (my worst section) and complicated averages. On that distinctly stuck out was "A classes average was a 28.6 on their last test. This is .6 lower than Susan and Julie's average. If Susan scored 18 points lower than julie, what was Julie's score."
Reading:
I found reading the paragraphs aloud to myself twice before even looking at the options helped. They long and boring but that's the point. If there's a certain procedure in the paragraph make a mental not of it while reading to reference if it's one of the questions. Other than that use process of elimination.
Mechanical Comprehension:
I felt pretty prepared for this overall. There were 3 different Bernoulli questions, some pendelum questions, what kind of energy does a compressed spring have, if a feather and brick are dropped at the same time in vaccum room which one would hit the ground first, if a 100lb Boulder and 1 lb pebble were dropped off a cliff at the same time which would hit first disregard in air resistance, and some questions about tension. Not much else comes to mind. I enjoyed Barron's for studying these types of questions as well as the Mometrix's book.
NATFI:
Just try to imagine yourself in the situations posted. I found that trying to make a decision in a scenario mindset helped me in decide which one was more likely than the other.
ANIT:
I have a strong aviation background and mainly just brushed up on some notes. I mainly study nautical information online and from the Barron's and mometrix book. Questions included, position of lift on a wing, what controls longitudinal axis of an aircraft, what was a famous dive bomber in WWII, what was the first jet to take part in jet to jet combat, what battle took place entirely in the air without the ships ever seeing each other, and then some nautical terms such as freeboard, draft, forecastle definitions, and one question what job does a person wearing purple a uniformon a carrier deck have.
PBM:
UAV I used the compass trick and it helped out greatly. There's a YouTube video that shows how to use it if you can't figure it out. As for the rest, just roll with the punches and don't get down if you mess up. Focus on dichotic listening section as much as possible. Also write down the emergencies if that hasn't been said enough.
If there are any questikns, please feel free to message, and I'll do my best to help out.
I say thank you to all of those before me who posted and helped give insight and I wish those searching for insight the best of luck.
Brett