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1,001 questions about the ASTB (post your scores & ask your questions here!)

I'm not sure if anyone can answer this one, or if this holds any water at all, but please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. So, your rating on the OAR, is not only dependent on getting correct answers, but how quickly you come up with said answer. Meaning if you take longer to work through a problem, it would have a negative impact on your score, correct?


So my question is, what has more of a detriment to your score, guessing and getting it wrong, or taking longer than is required to get the right answer? Let's say you're in a situation where you have no clue how to solve a problem, what's the best course of action here that will still yield a high score?

FWIW, I took what I consider to be a long amount of time working through problems that were difficult to me on the math section and even the reading section. I even ran out of time on both, and I got a 57 on the OAR portion, which AFAIK is a pretty decent score
 

Rahul Gupta

Active Member
What is the best way to improve your score on the MCT and Reading sections of the ASTB (any guides or books)? I did fairly decent on my first attempt about a month ago but would like to improve my scores. I felt really confident with the math (I'm an Aerospace Egr. major at VT) as well as all of the aviation/nautical knowledge. I know I screwed up on the UAV section and joystick part (screen went red 3 times on engine part and I missed 2 UAV questions along w/ a few slow times of 4-5s). I also felt that the MCT section had some supper easy physics questions and then some very random oddball type questions (literally got one about some type of apparatus set up). The books I studied from are: Trivium ASTB, ASTB Guide 2018, Barrons flight aptitude, and ASTB Secrets. I intend on using this forum to aid me in studying before my next attempt (which will be 5-7 weeks from now).

BTW my score was a 6/6/6 46 (attempt 1) and I studied for 5 months prior to taking the exam.
 

cchristoff89

New Member
FWIW, I took what I consider to be a long amount of time working through problems that were difficult to me on the math section and even the reading section. I even ran out of time on both, and I got a 57 on the OAR portion, which AFAIK is a pretty decent score

Thanks for the input. And yes 57 is a great score, I got a 45 first time, 44 second time.
 
- Send me an email. I will hook you up with the current doc at API. Really cool guy. He might steer you in the right direction. Eyesight shouldn’t be a big deal unless you have no depth perception or you have astigmatism.

I got a question about my eyesight, you mind giving me his contact info? I got my part 1 physical done and the optometrist, who was an AF doc, said that if I was commissioning for the AF, my astigmatism would disqualify me from fighters since it was 0.5 over the limit. I asked my recruiter if he knew what the requirements were or if he could find out, and he just said, "we'll just see what the board says"...
 

FormerRecruitingGuru

Making Recruiting Great Again
I got a question about my eyesight, you mind giving me his contact info? I got my part 1 physical done and the optometrist, who was an AF doc, said that if I was commissioning for the AF, my astigmatism would disqualify me from fighters since it was 0.5 over the limit. I asked my recruiter if he knew what the requirements were or if he could find out, and he just said, "we'll just see what the board says"...

You can find the requirements yourself through the NAMI guide.
 

StevenBlue18

Multi Life
What is the best way to improve your score on the MCT and Reading sections of the ASTB (any guides or books)? I did fairly decent on my first attempt about a month ago but would like to improve my scores. I felt really confident with the math (I'm an Aerospace Egr. major at VT) as well as all of the aviation/nautical knowledge. I know I screwed up on the UAV section and joystick part (screen went red 3 times on engine part and I missed 2 UAV questions along w/ a few slow times of 4-5s). I also felt that the MCT section had some supper easy physics questions and then some very random oddball type questions (literally got one about some type of apparatus set up). The books I studied from are: Trivium ASTB, ASTB Guide 2018, Barrons flight aptitude, and ASTB Secrets. I intend on using this forum to aid me in studying before my next attempt (which will be 5-7 weeks from now).

BTW my score was a 6/6/6 46 (attempt 1) and I studied for 5 months prior to taking the exam.
I found the best study material was on this thread. They have some great study guides. As for the performance section I played first person shooter games inverted and added in two sets of headphones with two different devices for dichotic listening. Played call of duty on shipment was lots of action and was challenging with dichotic listening. For dichotic practice I used a text to voice app and recorded lines like “A2U1Z9F614”(male voice).Went from 4/5/5 to 6/8/7. Not a huge difference but good enough.
 

Scimitarze

Automated Member
Just got scheduled for next Tuesday at noon since he's the only test administrator that's available before the semester starts and is going on leave soon. Gives me about two weeks less than I would've hoped to finish studying, but hey what can you do?
 

bphelps95

New Member
Finished my second attempt yesterday and brought my score up to 44 from a 34. I know it isn't impressive by any means but I wouldn't have been able to pull up my score that much if it wasn't for all of the great gouges everyone has posted. I bought a GRE book and didn't find it to be all that helpful. The GRE books are good if you need a refresher in algebra. Barron's was extremely helpful for the mechanical section.
 

KRogers

New Member
Hey guys,
Taking the OAR for the 2nd time tomorrow ! Ive been studying like crazy with the help of the study material that have been posted on here. My first time I received a 40 without studying. so hopefully this time around its better. Going for Crypto or SWO with a GPA of 3.02 Bachelor's in Information Technology .
 

FormerRecruitingGuru

Making Recruiting Great Again
Hey guys,
Taking the OAR for the 2nd time tomorrow ! Ive been studying like crazy with the help of the study material that have been posted on here. My first time I received a 40 without studying. so hopefully this time around its better. Going for Crypto or SWO with a GPA of 3.02 Bachelor's in Information Technology .

I’d highly highly consider SWO more than CW since you barely make the GPA cut for it.
 

rckmorty123

New Member
Hey guys,
Taking the OAR for the 2nd time tomorrow ! Ive been studying like crazy with the help of the study material that have been posted on here. My first time I received a 40 without studying. so hopefully this time around its better. Going for Crypto or SWO with a GPA of 3.02 Bachelor's in Information Technology .

Hey Good luck! Let me know how it goes! I'm taking at Early Feb!
 

Ash0224

New Member
Finished my second attempt yesterday and brought my score up to 44 from a 34. I know it isn't impressive by any means but I wouldn't have been able to pull up my score that much if it wasn't for all of the great gouges everyone has posted. I bought a GRE book and didn't find it to be all that helpful. The GRE books are good if you need a refresher in algebra. Barron's was extremely helpful for the mechanical section.
Don’t cut yourself down. That’s a 10 point jump. Congrats to you. I’m taking the oar again this Tuesday and aiming for that 10 point jump as well
 
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