So I took the ASTB yesterday! Boy did it make me feel stupid. I definitely was going in trying to get above a 60 and ended up with a 54. Really upset about this but I'm gonna keep it.
By far, reading was the easiest section. It really is just narrowing it down to two choices, after that it's just rereading and making sure the verbiage matches the paragraph. The sample questions posted on the Navy website had some that were verbatim in the exam. That is the best example of the type of questions.
The math section really made me feel stupid. I remember some of the questions well. First one was like, probability of two Chicago teams winning is .15. If the probability of one of them winning is .40, what is the probability of the other. I got one that was like, in the infinite series of 1/n + 1/2n + 1/3n......+L = 1, what is N? I got one asking for the sum total if you add 2+3+4+5+6.....all the way until +123. No logs. One about minimum function on a graph or something. Huge equations to simplify and answer. like (-2)-[-3(4)-(6{3*5}3) + 6. One about right triangle integers, gave you the area, asked for perimeter. One where you plug in a number into N for an equation. Lots of simplifying square roots or adding/subtracting them. One of those problems about a certain amount of coins, like, if there were 20 quarters and the total is $50 how many dimes are there (not accurate numbers just example). If you flip a coin three times what's the probability of you getting tails. What is the 6th term in the series, where it was like 10, 18, 26, etc. Just adding eight every time. Man is paddling at 4 km across a river when the river is flowing 5 km down, how fast was the boat? D=RT questions about two people leaving at different times at a certain speed and a what time were they 400 miles apart (5 hours). One question about a car driving in three legs of a trip, first leg 60 mph for 40 mins, second leg 30 mph for 20, and third leg went at the average of the first hour of the trip. Question about something being discounted a number of times and taxed. Which fraction is the smallest, and then it gave like 31/32, 10/11, 2/3, and something else. Susan took four tests, each test was 10 points higher than the previous test. She got a 70, 75, and 80 on first three tests. She got a final grade in the class of 75. What did she get on the 4th test?
By the time I got to mechanical I really was burnt out and don't remember much. A lot of fulcrum questions where you have like 40 * 3 =10 * X. Equation for work, equation for power, V=IR one. One about bernoulli principle. One about mechanical advantage and pulleys. One about torque and which angle of pushing a wrench down is the best. One about if a screw was stuck, which point would you use a blowtorch on to get it off. If a coil was wrapped around a nail with a 1.25 amp charge, and you removed the nail and straightened the coil it was .25 now, what was the charge on the nail or something like that. If a compressed string rests at Point A and expands to point C before coming back, when does it have the greatest energy? Ice cubes floating in water are an example of how when water freezes it (decreases in weight, increases in density, expands in volume). Had one about angular velocity of a man on a unicycle. Lift on airfoil.
All of my tests went on until the max time limit. I really want to thank everyone on this forum recently and throughout the years for contributing their experience/study guides/thoughts. Submitting for May SWO board.
